Compliance requires invoices to satisfy the client's requirements on rate approval, task and activity coding, billing increments, staffing restrictions, and prohibited entries such as clerical work or block billing.
Non-compliant entries are flagged by automated bill review and written down before human review.
Alternative Names:
Guideline Compliance, Invoice Compliance
Why it Matters?
Compliance determines realization on work already performed, and the losses are invisible unless tracked. A firm writing off eight percent of billed time to guideline violations is losing more than most efficiency initiatives would recover, and the cause is usually narrative quality rather than improper work. Training timekeepers on entry description is among the highest-return operational investments available to a defense firm.
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Why does narrative quality matter so much?
