Here’s a little problem I stumbled across today 
You’re working for a client on an hourly rate. There’s no allowance for expenses.
For a particular task you know it’s cheaper for the client if you buy some software to do the job (even taking the software cost into account). It’s unlikely you will use the software for any future work and there’s no expenses allowed, so the price of the software comes out of your pocket and not the clients.
Do you:
- Not buy the software and charge the client for all the time it takes?
- Buy the software and lie about the hours spent on the job, inflating them to cover the cost of the software?
- Buy the software out of your own pocket and bill the correct hours taken?
What would you do?