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Shark Tank: Let's go over this whole 'billing' concept again
13 comments- IT TOPICS:Management, Personal Technology
This consulting business analyst has been working on one client account for over a year. That's meant lots of long weeks and weekends, reports a pilot fish on the scene.
"While auditing plans recently, we discovered that this business analyst has had quite a lot of date changes and task completions that are on the plan but with no corresponding time on the billing system," fish says.
"Since our project planning and billing systems are not integrated, this is something that would not be apparent if we weren't comparing plans and billing."
When asked about the discrepancy, analyst tells boss, "Well, since you don't pay me for working on the weekends, I figured I did not have to enter the time on the billing system."
Which doesn't make the analyst's boss happy. The accounting department is even less happy when a little number crunching calculates just how much time is involved.
Sighs fish, "We haven't billed the client for 500-plus hours of work.
"Now we're wondering exactly how to approach the client."
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