Incidental expenses can be anything outside the defined categories.
Typical expense charts will show:
* lodging
* meals
* telephone
* car rental
* other transportation
Incidentals can be anything else: tips, porter fees, mailing costs,
forgotten toiletries, materials to clean clothes after travel, parking
meter expenses, supplies for a presentation.
Incidental expenses are anything allowed by company policy -- and the
financial staff that audit expense reports. I once worked with
someone who was called in on the weekend to make a sale presentation.
Because he couldn't go home first and had to buy a sports jacket, he
tried the jacket under incidentals, though accounting turned him down
on that one.
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