Custom Timesheet Reporting: What Stories Are Your Reports Telling?

Timesheet reporting should tell a story, a story that inspires you to make essential decisions that move your business forward. In other words, when a story falls short with a report that doesn’t inspire you, you end up feeling confused and frustrated. Sometimes, that out-of-the-box timesheet report isn’t telling you the real story. You need a custom report, one that tells a story that excites you and gives foresight. The real value of a timesheet…

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How to Integrate Timesheet with Excel

Using a spreadsheet as a method of timekeeping for billing clients is a no-brainer. The problem with spreadsheet timekeeping is that it doesn’t scale very well. As your employee numbers grow, so does the pain of billable time collection. If you are reading this, you’ve either experienced this pain in the past or are experiencing it now. Having a timesheet solution that scales with your team’s growth while keeping you integrated with your favourite Microsft…

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Organizational Psychology 101: The 6 Traits of Dynamic Company Culture

Your job is more than just a place to make money. You put time into your work, hoping that at some time, your efforts will make a meaningful impact. To make time at work meaningful, your community at work has to feel right. Organizational psychology has to be a priority and a commitment to the six traits of dynamic company culture. Key takeaways: 71% of employees are not engaged in their work. Bad company culture…

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Adapt to Change: Help Your Team with Resource Allocation

Your business can either live to change or change to live. You always have the choice over how you approach change, but you don’t have the choice to change. Transitions are still going to happen and learning how to adapt to change is crucial to long term success.  Gaining the ability to adapt to change in a business environment comes from preparation and knowledge. Having tools in place that give you a better picture of…

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Getting in the Habit: How to Make Entering Time Easy

People depend on you, at work, at home and in your friendships. You’re always counted on to deliver something of value to your relationships. How you deliver comes down to the habits that you have -both good and bad. Getting into a good habit is sometimes just as hard as getting out of a bad one. One of your many responsibilities at work may be to enter your working time on a timesheet. This work…

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Excel Timesheet: When is it time to Find an Alternative?

It’s natural to look to Excel or even Google Sheets for your timekeeping needs. Both options are relatively free and easily adaptable. The functionality within either spreadsheet apps lends perfectly to record and report time spent working on client projects. There are many free timesheet templates available all over the internet to give you a headstart on ramping up your timesheet solution. So, perhaps you’ve already discovered the beauty of tracking time on a spreadsheet…

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Timekeeping and DCAA: What you need to know

There isn’t a word that sucks the life out of a party more than “compliance.” It’s especially true if that party is the one being thrown by your team after securing that lucrative DoD (Department of Defence) contract. Here’s what you need to know about timekeeping and DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency). Yay! You did it! You secured that government contract! Now, you need to comply! Ohhh The party is over, it’s time to get…

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6 Meaningful Benefits of Expense Report Software

Are you buried in paper from piles of coffee-stained receipts and crumpled expense reports? How much time are you wasting chasing staff down to correct incomplete or illegitimate expense claims? If you can relate to these frustrations, then these benefits of expense report software may be of value to you. It’s time to ditch the paper. There are always better ways to do everything. Expense reporting is not an exception. As your company grows, meaningful…

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Government Contributions: How a Timesheet Can Help Grow Your Company

By Diane Doucet – Dovico Co-Founder and Time Coach Edited by: Jeff Nagle Over the past 25 years, Dovico has been the recipient of many federal and provincial government contributions. This funding has been crucial to our growth and stability over the years. For each submission, I was the portfolio manager responsible for the entire application process. I would also manage the communication and documentation for all approved contributions. Based on my experiences, and the…

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How Engineering Consultants Are Saving Time

But there never seems to be enough timeTo do the things you want to doOnce you find them Lyrics to “Time in a Bottle” by Jim Croce If you’re a little unsure about the profitability and efficiency of your projects, you’re not alone. It may seem like a simple task to just bill clients for time spent working on their projects, but let’s be honest, it’s a pain in the rear. Your efficiency comes down…

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