Supporting documents

The documents that get an invoice approved

On hourly work the invoice is the claim and the timesheet is the evidence. Sending one without the other adds a week.

A timesheet lists dates, hours and what was done on each. An expense report lists what was spent on the client's behalf, with the reason. Neither is complicated; both are the difference between an invoice that is approved on sight and one that goes into a queue.

They share the layout of the invoice template, which means the person approving them is reading the same document family three times rather than three unrelated files.