Pls forgive my ignorance, (an intern) I've always had a question of billable hours, and this goes for any firm. Let's say you're a beast, and can take out tasks that takes multiple hours to do, but you do it much quicker . Do you just bill the time you took, or would you over bill the hours you worked? Especially now with working at home, this seems like an opportunity for people in this line of work to get away with.

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Bill the hours you work.

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Definitely something I expect to do, probably actually underbill, since I'll be new to this, and clients would be pissed we charged so much for easy work

Bill whatever your team tells you to. When I was in consulting, we billed at minimum 8 hours even if we didn’t do work the entire day

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Def depends if contract is t&m or fixed fee. If t&m then charge proper hours. If it’s fixed fee and you’re allocated as a full time resource, “bill” 40 hours if u work more or less. But also just ask your lead or SM what to do if you’re not sure.

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*Also what kind of controls do these firms have in place to mitigate this?

Time reporting policy. You follow your firm’s to the letter else risk people’s jobs.

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