Anyone else deal with unrealistic budgets?! Especially for first year clients who don’t know what they’re doing and don’t want to pay for overruns. And I refuse to eat hours. It’s so stressful

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Budgets are usually a joke and not all inclusive of all time needed to complete the task

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Totally agreed with you. I am assigned on a brand new client, and was told a steep discount was given. We ended up charging triple that of the budget since their books were in such a shit show. We had to go back and forth on the AJEs. Totally a shit show. Be careful of what you ask for

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Never eat hours. If a discount was given then the partner and management should understand that their will be overage. That usually doesn't happen tho and they question staff for going over 😑

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Unfortunately budgets are typically set to hit a realization goal versus being a true prediction of what it will take to do the job.

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Refuse to eat hours ? I usually just book 45s without stopping to think how many hours I actually worked on something. I don’t care or give fucks what the actual hours are.

45s? That's nothing. How do you get away with that?

My guess is that no one cares. 45 during non busy 55 during busy.

Charge every hour. We just end up adjusting ERP, or whatever your firm calls it, to plug the difference.

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