Block billing records several distinct activities under one time entry without allocating time among them. Guidelines typically require separate entries for each task with individual time allocations.
Automated bill review flags block entries for reduction.
Alternative Names:
Block Billed Entries, Lumped Time
Why it Matters?
Block billing is among the most common write-down causes and is entirely preventable, since the underlying work is usually appropriate and only the recording is defective. Automated review applies percentage reductions to flagged entries regardless of whether the time was reasonable, so a firm losing several percent of billed time to this cause is giving up revenue on work it performed. Timekeeper training on entry discipline recovers it directly.
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Why is block billing penalized?
Is the underlying work usually improper?
