Congratulations! Your operation has just won the contract for the proposal on which you worked so hard. Now you are on the project team. Your project manager has assembled the project staff for a meeting to begin work. After the project manager has parsed task assignments to the individual team members, you ask for the charge number to use to charge your labor time. The project manager informs everyone that a charge number has not yet been opened. The project manager instructs everyone keep track of their time spent on this project so they can submit "corrected" time sheets after the number is open for charges. You ask if that is proper and the answer is yes.

You recall your ethics training and the company's time charging policy - charge it now, charge it all, charge it correctly. What do you do?

You are asked to think of a possible course of action that resolves the ethical problem you are facing with minimal consequences and outcome back to you. Please keep the statement to a few (three or four) sentences at most.