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Dear Money Helps: Last fall I left my job at DaimlerChrysler for another opportunity. I had an American Express card for business expenses and filed my last expense report a week after I left. It took months for DaimlerChrysler to process the report, and when it finally did, it didn’t cover $300 in late fees. Isn’t the company responsible? My wife and I are buying a house and are worried MORE

Construction contracts and construction law could be a minefield. However final accounts (including for the needs of this document last certificates) draw a line of sorts under the contractual duties owed by the parties to a contract to one another. As usual the answer depends on what the sub contract basically says. However , frequently under standard forms, and especially JCT forms, final accounts also finalise (subject to formal proceedings) disputes under the contract “normally those coming from valuations, quality of work and calls on extensions of time and loss and/or expense. That is why clauses dealing with final accounts often impose on the parties ‘ conclusivity unless objection is made inside a prescribed period. If you don't fight the areas you don't agree with it may well be too late to debate these points. Disputing parts of the final account means in effect either adjudication or arbitration.

Dear Money Helps: Last fall I left my job at DaimlerChrysler for another opportunity. I had an American Express card for business expenses and filed my last expense report a week after I left. It took months for DaimlerChrysler to process the report, and when it finally did, it didn’t cover $300 in late fees. Isn’t the company responsible? My wife and I are buying a house and are worried MORE

Dear Money Helps: Last fall I left my job at DaimlerChrysler for another opportunity. I had an American Express card for business expenses and filed my last expense report a week after I left. It took months for DaimlerChrysler to process the report, and when it finally did, it didn’t cover $300 in late fees. Isn’t the company responsible? My wife and I are buying a house and are worried MORE

Dear Money Helps: Last fall I left my job at DaimlerChrysler for another opportunity. I had an American Express card for business expenses and filed my last expense report a week after I left. It took months for DaimlerChrysler to process the report, and when it finally did, it didn’t cover $300 in late fees. Isn’t the company responsible? My wife and I are buying a house and are worried MORE