And, in addition, a card can be "bought" by each project account and that
will be presumptive evidence that those costs are directly related to the
specific project.

Chuck

At 09:52 PM 12/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
>This seems like a useless worry.  These days you can get a card that allows
>you to call anywhere in the states for under 10cents/min -- so unless you
>plan to spend hours on the phone, this seems like a non-issue.
>
>LRL
>
>>hello everyone,
>>
>>I'm looking for advice on a proposed method to cut travel costs.  One of
>>our more prolific research departments has suggested that they could
>>save money by establishing an 800 number so that their traveling
>>researchers can dial up the department and either have voice or data
>>connection.  This would eliminate the telephone line item on expense
>>reports.
>>
>>We like the idea, but we're concerned about two things.
>>
>>1.) How can we allocate the monthly cost of the department's 800 number
>>to particular sponsored accounts, and
>>2.) should this cost be considered "travel" like normal phone calls or
>>"computing" because researchers will be able to use it to connect their
>>laptops to the department?
>>
>>thanks,  Matt
>>Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf"
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>Content-Description: Card for Clark, J.D., Matthew
>>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf"
>>
>>Attachment converted: Mac HD:vcard.vcf (TEXT/ttxt) (0000FE14)
>
>
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