Time audit

Everhour connects tracked hours to budgets, billing, and reports so you can see where team time actually goes.

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Everhour does it all — track, budget, report & invoice

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Everhour — Time Tracking
Time Entries
01:24:00
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Everhour — Budgeting
Acme Web Project
1
50% of budget used
$2,500.00of $5,000.00
$2,500.00 remaining
75%
Actual costRemaining cost

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Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.

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Everhour — Invoices
Your Company LLChello@yourcompany.com
INVOICE
Invoice #1042
Group by:
DescriptionHoursRateAmount
Website Redesign14h$150/h$2,100.00
Brand Guidelines7h$150/h$1,050.00
Marketing Strategy3.5h$150/h$525.00
Total Due$3,675.00
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Reviewing work time with purpose

Find the hours worth checking

This review helps you compare recorded hours against the work you expected to see. Start with the period, team, projects, clients, and rates you want to review. A one-week review works for a quick check; a month or quarter gives better evidence for budgets, retainers, and staffing patterns. Use U.S. dollars for rate, billing, payroll, and budget fields when the review covers U.S. work.

For payroll-facing reviews, keep the worker category clear. Covered employers under the FLSA must keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, and records for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The federal baseline allows any complete and accurate timekeeping method, so the review should test whether the record is complete and accurate.

Assemble the source fields

Build the review from fields that answer four questions: who worked, when work happened, where the time belongs, and whether it affects money. Include person, date, start and stop time or duration, project, client, task, billable status, rate, notes, and approval status. For a client-facing line, the task label and note should explain why the work belongs on the invoice.

Separate project time from working time when the two serve different decisions. Project time explains delivery, budgets, and invoices. Working time supports payroll review and attendance questions. A salaried exempt manager may need project allocation for planning, while a nonexempt employee's record needs daily and weekly hours if the worker is covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.

Check exceptions before conclusions

Flag entries that create money or compliance consequences before you total the report. Under the FLSA federal baseline, unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate. Do not average hours across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes.

Weekend, holiday, and regular rest-day entries need context. The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work unless the weekly overtime rule is triggered or another law, policy, contract, or agreement applies. A review should also mark missing tasks, unexplained manual edits, duplicate entries, long unassigned blocks, and billable hours with no client or project.

Decide on repeat controls

A single-use tool is enough when you need a fast weekly total, a small invoice check, or a clean handoff to a spreadsheet. It also works for a short project with a few people and clear task labels. The result should show the period reviewed, included workers, excluded time, billable split, rate basis, and any corrections made before approval.

A managed workflow becomes necessary when the same gaps appear every period, budgets move during the month, or clients question invoices. Everhour Project Budgeting keeps time and money budgets tied to logged work, supports recurring budget periods, and can send threshold alerts as projects approach defined limits. That structure turns the review from cleanup into budget control.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How often should a team run a time audit?

Run the review on the same cadence as the decision it supports. Weekly reviews catch missing entries before payroll and FLSA overtime review. Monthly reviews fit client billing, budget variance, and project profitability checks. Quarterly reviews help spot workload patterns, recurring unassigned work, and estimates that no longer match actual delivery.

Which records matter most during a time audit?

The strongest record connects each entry to a person, date, start and stop time or duration, project, client, task, billable status, and approval state. For employees covered by FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Rate and currency fields belong in the audit when billing, payroll, or budget impact is under review.

Can a time audit change overtime calculations?

An audit can uncover overtime errors, especially when hours were summarized by project instead of by fixed workweek. Under the FLSA federal baseline, unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a 168-hour workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate. Hours may not be averaged across workweeks for FLSA overtime.

Should manual edits be treated as errors?

Treat manual edits as review items with a reason, editor, date, and source. Legitimate corrections happen when someone stops a timer late, forgets a client label, or enters time after travel. Risk increases when edits cluster near approvals, remove billable time without notes, or change daily totals for covered nonexempt workers without a clear explanation.

Which privacy checks belong in the review?

Privacy review should start with data minimization, access, retention, and disposal. U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act, and FTC guidance says companies keeping sensitive employee information should collect only what they need, protect it, and dispose of it securely. California employee data may also fall under the CCPA for covered businesses.

How does Everhour Project Budgeting support a recurring time audit?

Everhour Project Budgeting ties logged time to time or money budgets, including one-time or recurring periods. Budget alerts can notify selected admins at defined thresholds, and budget protection can stop timers or prevent additional logging after a project exceeds its limit.

How can Everhour Reporting document the review?

Everhour Reporting can build a saved report with columns for project, client, member, task, billable time, labor costs, profit, invoice status, and budget metrics. The report can be filtered by date range and exported as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for the review file.

Control budgets with tracked time

Connect repeated reviews to Everhour Project Budgeting, set time or money budgets, and use threshold alerts to catch overages before cleanup becomes the monthly routine.

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