{"id":565,"date":"2020-02-28T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2020-02-28T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:25:16","slug":"consulting-travel-expense-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/28\/consulting-travel-expense-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Consulting Travel &#8211; Expense Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Expense Reports<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of each month, you will be required to fill out\nan expense report. This activity will be one of the more mundane and tedious\njob requirements you will have but you will want to be reimbursed for the large\nsums of money you put up for weeks of airfare, food and hotels. Make it a habit\nto keep receipts as you go. It helps to have a dedicated credit card for work\ntravel so transactions may electronically get recorded in one place. Depending\non how strict your auditing department is, you may also need to provide scans\nof physical receipts as well. There are many apps available to help make this easier\nor you can just take pictures on your phone as they come in and sort it out\nlater. Most major hotels and airlines will email you a copy of your receipt so\nyou should be able to dig those out of your email when you need the\ndocumentation. On the reports themselves, you will need to record the expense,\nthe date, the service, the cost and possibly provide details in the notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once submitted, there is usually an approval process by the payroll and invoicing team. Once approved, you will receive the dollar amount on your next paycheck. This amount should be untaxed and not paid as a bonus or your base pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you interested in starting a career in consulting? Be\nsure to read the full book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38wE3AO\">Jack of all Trades Master of Some; An Introduction to\nConsulting<\/a> available on Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expense Reports At the end of each month, you will be required to fill out an expense report. This activity will be one of the more mundane and tedious job requirements you will have but you will want to be reimbursed for the large sums of money you put up for weeks of airfare, food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}