{"id":7697,"date":"2024-11-05T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2024-11-05T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T21:23:55","slug":"live-up-to-your-fee-arrangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7697","title":{"rendered":"Live up to your fee arrangement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I work (outside of plan audits) on a flat fee basis. What I say is the price is the price. If I misjudged the value of a service, the fault lies with me. I still live up to the bargain I made.<\/p>\n<p>As an attorney and fiduciary on many plans requiring audits, I\u2019m amazed by the courage of audit firms that want additional sums of payment after quoting a flat fee. Where I come from, we call that \u201cchutzpah.\u201d If you say that the audit would cost $15,000, don\u2019t ask for another $5,000. The chances you\u2019re going to get clipped and replaced by another firm are substantially high.<\/p>\n<p>Live with the deal you made.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work (outside of plan audits) on a flat fee basis. What I say is the price is the price. If I misjudged the value of a service, the fault lies with me. I still live up to the bargain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7698,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions\/7698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}