Rex

Do you expense everything, and if you don't what don't you expense?

Ally

When I did business trips for the construction company or when I operated coaches, I only booked as expense overnight stay and one main meal per day, that way there were no quibbles or arguments when it came to claim anything back. On the coaches I gave my drivers £45.00 a day petty cash to provide meals and accommodation when they were doing night-outs before and after tours if the distance from base was too far to get to the pick-up point on the same day as the pick-up. Average country-wide overnight expenses for commercial drivers, both lorry and passenger is around the £30 mark, so my drivers did pretty good

wannacruisenow

My company is privately owned, and very good about my travel expenses. As an executive of the company they let us use our judgement. I pretty much expense everything. I'll expense bar tabs, all meals, most tips and valet parking. I just need to figure out how to expense my shopping!

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Marj

amoroso

I work for Visa and they always pay for everything realy. The only extra i spend is when i want to buy my girlfriend or kid something, a souvenir from this or that place...visa does the rest

sangria

well i'm my own boss so it comes out of my pocket.
But i always have a budget i respect that is.

Captain Larry

Many years ago I was sent by my employer to New York City for some training. I was then (and still am now) a big-eyed country boy, but rather frugal. So, although I stayed in the hotel specified by my employer, I ate and entertained on the cheap. I turned in an accurate expense statement, and it was promptly rejected by my boss. His statement was, "I can't let you turn in this small an expense statement for New York City. It would ruin it for everyone else who ever gets sent there." So, with my bosses coaching, I submitted a falsified expense statement that was more in line with what the boss would have submitted had he been the one in NYC. For subsequent business trips, regardless of the location, I was much less "careful" about my expenses. I never had a statement rejected again.

I thought I'd better add this paragraph. For my travels with the US Navy, I was typically on a per diem basis. If I was frugal, I could make some money. If I spent, literally, like a sailor, all in excess of the per diem rate was out of my pocket. Even with the Navy, though, I could submit documentation that the expenses unavoidably exceeded the per diem rate, and I was usually reimbursed.

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