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Too many people talking about questionably ethical uses of expense dollars on a forum where leadership is also present and not dumb?
Two options come to mind immediately:
Client MSAs / agreements negotiated to limit costs
Partners on fixed fee projects leveraging this as a profitability buffer
I thought with per-diem you just get the $$ no matter what?
Sometimes it’s clients that require receipts
I haven’t personally noticed a trend.... all of my projects have a reimbursable expense budget set at a % of fees.
Per diem typically means a fixed amount. What you’re describing is an expense cap with a receipt requirement. Generally clients want to reimburse actual expenses and cap them because they end up paying less out of pocket