Financial advisory work spans meetings, planning, research, and reviews, and Everhour keeps those hours tied to budgets.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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You came here to record financial-advisory work in a form that supports billing, planning, capacity, and client review. A useful log separates client meetings, planning analysis, recommendations, implementation, monitoring, investment research, and prospecting. That structure lets you see time spent on a household, engagement, or internal business-development activity without burying sensitive notes in a generic calendar entry.
For a U.S. firm, the same record can also support employment recordkeeping when staff are nonexempt. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA does not require a specific clock or software system, so completeness and accuracy matter more than the format.
Start each entry with the client or prospect, date, start and stop time or duration, service area, workflow stage, and billing status. Common service areas include investments, insurance, mortgages, estate planning, taxes, and retirement. Workflow stages can follow the financial-planning sequence: understanding the client, selecting goals, analyzing alternatives, developing recommendations, presenting recommendations, implementing recommendations, and monitoring progress.
A practical entry might read: March 5, 2026, Alvarez household, retirement planning, analyze alternatives, 1.25 hours, billable, notes limited to "IRA distribution scenario review." For non-client work, use a separate category such as seminar preparation, networking follow-up, or investment research. Keeping prospecting separate prevents internal marketing time from inflating client-service costs or hourly realization reports.
Advisor time entries often sit next to qualitative and quantitative client information: goals, risk tolerance, income, expenses, cash flow, assets, liabilities, taxes, insurance, estate plans, and retirement accounts. Keep notes concise and service-focused. A time log should prove the activity performed without turning into a second client file full of personal financial detail, especially for CFP professionals who must maintain confidentiality and protect client privacy.
Fee structure changes the level of detail you need. Hourly advisory work needs client-ready descriptions, durations, and USD rates. Flat-fee, asset-based, performance-based, or commission compensation can still use time records for profitability, capacity, and service-level review. SEC Form ADV Part 2A Item 5 tells investment advisers to disclose compensation, fee schedules, negotiability, billing or deduction method, and billing frequency; it does not mandate a particular time tracker.
A free, one-off weekly tracker is enough when you need a quick record for one advisor, a short engagement, or a small batch of client and prospect activity. It works when entries stay low volume, billing is reviewed manually, and no manager needs approval history. Export or save the completed log with the client file, invoice backup, or internal capacity notes before starting the next period.
Move to a managed workflow when multiple advisors track against client budgets, retainers, recurring review periods, or fee arrangements. Everhour Project Budgeting can track time and money budgets, reset budgets on recurring schedules, send threshold alerts, and support non-billable, fixed-fee, and time-and-materials billing methods. That gives partners a durable view of client effort before billing, staffing, or budget decisions.
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A clean structure uses client or prospect, service area, workflow stage, billing status, and time spent. Service areas can include investments, insurance, mortgages, estate planning, taxes, and retirement. Stages can follow the planning process from understanding the client through monitoring or updating progress, so the log shows both effort and advisory context.
Yes. Hourly records directly support invoices, and non-hourly records show the effort behind planning, monitoring, research, reviews, and prospecting. Asset-based, flat, performance-based, and commission compensation do not remove the management value of time data. Separate billable client service from non-billable marketing so profitability and capacity reports stay meaningful.
Use enough detail to identify the work, then keep sensitive financial facts out of the note unless the record needs them. A service-focused note such as "retirement projection update" is safer than a detailed summary of income, liabilities, tax positions, or estate plans. CFP professionals must maintain confidentiality and protect client privacy.
No. The FLSA does not require premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work. For covered nonexempt employees, federal overtime applies to hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate, unless another law, policy, or contract adds a premium.
Covered employers can use any complete and accurate method, but their FLSA records for covered nonexempt employees must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Federal rules require payroll records to be preserved for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, such as daily start and stop sheets, for at least two years.
Everhour Project Budgeting lets advisory teams set time or money budgets for client work, use recurring budget periods for ongoing reviews or retainers, and receive threshold alerts as work approaches its limit. It also supports non-billable, fixed-fee, and time-and-materials billing methods.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time into reports that can group or filter by project, client, member, date range, and billable time. Advisors can review effort by service area when projects or tasks are structured that way, while financial columns remain restricted by role for internal management and billing review.
Everhour Project Budgeting ties advisor hours to client budgets, recurring periods, and threshold alerts so partners catch scope pressure before billing reviews and get clearer advisory budget control.
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