What is a Timesheet?

Any company or organization must accurately account for the time its workers spend on tasks and projects. Time entry involves employees entering the time they start and end work on a task or project on a timesheet. This data is then used in client billing as well as payroll processing.

A business can meet its deadlines, maintain its budget, and achieve success when it uses time effectively. To do this, you need to be able to keep accurate records. This makes timesheets essential to any successful business.

• Payroll processing

  Timesheets help employers track work hours, leaves, accruals, and adjustments for processing payrolls.Time tracking software systems also provide employers with a trackable workflow for payroll approval. Inaccurate data entry is the leading cause of payroll errors. Time tracking software systems cut down these data entry errors to keep your payroll processing smoothly.

• Management accounting

  Timesheets are a valuable tool in management accounting. They help managers to record start and end times for tasks. This is handy when managers need to know which tasks take up more time and identify areas that delay completion of work.

Service based industries

• Law office timesheets

  It is important for law firms to maintain up-to-date records of client hours and details of the services they offer their clients. Timesheets provide assistance to law firms in tracking bills based on client service hours.

• Timesheets for freelancers

  Time is money for freelancers. Many freelancers charge clients by the hour, so tracking time precisely is top priority. For those who work at a different location from their clients, knowing the amount of time spent on projects becomes difficult. Using a time tracking system, a freelancer can measure time spent accurately and share the records with clients. This helps clients see where their money goes and also provides freelancers with accurate records.

• Timesheets for accountants

  The profit made by accounting businesses depends on how efficiently workers spend time on clients. High utilization and high billability mean high profits. Timesheets and time tracking software can help accounting businesses track both their bills and their time. Thus, choosing the right software is a critical decision for accounting businesses.

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  Reduce time wastage

  Timesheets help you understand where you are wasting labor. They help weed out tasks that take longer than necessary, and assist you in making decisions as to how you can optimize your tasks.

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  Bill accurately

  Timesheets help you in billing accurately. They are a way of letting your clients know that you handle their projects efficiently and their money is not going to waste. With timesheets, your clients don't need to worry about constantly checking the status of their projects.They let them see how much time you dedicate to them and serve as proof of how accurate your billing is.



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  Automate your billing

  Organizations that render services to clients based on billable hours use timesheets for billing. This can reduce your costs by automating billing and invoicing. Automated billing can also increase revenue.

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  Improve Project management

  Timesheets are surprisingly important tools for project management in the following ways:

  • By tracking time on a project, they help in qualifying an employee for a new project, role, or job based on performance.

  • By analyzing time usage, you can determine the skill of someone in a particular area and utilize them in parts of a project for which they're better suited.

  • They help in identifying areas in which a worker takes more time than allocated and needs additional training.

  • They are helpful in measuring the overall efficiency of your project.

  • They help in identifying the availability of workers assigned to a project, making it easy to distribute the workload among group members.

  • They enable project managers to monitor progress and anticipate delays.

  • They help project managers estimate expected costs and compare them to the real cost of the project during execution.




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  Save money for your company

  Timesheets let you know exactly what your employees are working on. They track efficiency of workers by comparing the amount of time they work with the output they produce. Timesheets help spot employees that perform poorly and cost your company money. By telling you who is productive and who is not, timesheets help save a lot of money for your company.