Ah…….happy days
Who could forget the good old actuals in Kuwait? I remember getting a stand up bollocking from the then OC Accts when I was a young co-pilot as my imprest paperwork showed that a couple of crew members had taken their lunch by the pool – the meals showed up on the bill as “Poolside”. I tried to explain that three people had had burgers by the pool at a cost of about $10 each. Now almost blue in the face, OC Accts “advised” me that meals ARE to be taken in the hotel restaurant buffet and nowhere else.
Not wishing to cause any further losses to HMG I duly arranged for every crewmember to take lunch in the hotel restaurant, every day, next time I was there. Fabulously, the lunchtime buffet worked out at about $45 a head. All 6 of us trooped in for lunch every day in the restaurant. This meant a daily bill of between $250 and $300. For 4 days.
Accountancy in action……. $40 a day by the pool or $300 a day in the restaurant?
Accts Flt were much happier with the second bill……