Has anyone ever beat the budget without eating time?

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Yes, but we were able to set a realistic budget with a client that was happy to pay for our time. Risk advisory - controls integration project. We spent about $5k of the surplus at Del Friscos to celebrate.

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Why would you want to?!

Hahah for us it was a one time job so no worries about that part

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Beat em up!

Yes.

Happens often on several of my jobs but I realize we are not the norm. Reason is we engrained years ago to not eat hours and so now we have realistic budgets and with some of our technology enhancements have been spending much less time. Makes it a lot easier to get the right credit to those that worked on the changes when there is actually an economic impact to show for it!

Old team at Pdubs beat the budget multiple years in a row. Had a lot of low hanging fruit that should have been automated and too many staff overauditing certain areas just because we could so it was easy to change those.

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