Everhour tracks accounting work by client, engagement, and task so firm time records stay invoice-ready.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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Use this page when an accountant, bookkeeper, or firm administrator needs a clean way to record the week's work by client and engagement. The useful output is a time record that shows who did the work, the client, the engagement, the phase or task, the chargeable status, and the time spent. A partner can bill from it, a manager can review it, and staff can explain the work without reconstructing their calendar.
For example, a staff accountant can log 2.25 hours to Client Allen, 2025 tax return, workpaper review, billable, and 0.50 hours to firm training as non-chargeable time. That split matters because accounting practices need both chargeable client time and internal time for utilization, budgeting, WIP review, and payroll context. A single daily total does not give a billing partner enough detail.
Accounting time entries need a structure that matches the way the firm prices and reviews work. The common accounting-firm unit is client, engagement, phase, and task. A tax engagement can use phases such as preparation, review, client questions, and filing support. An audit engagement can separate planning, fieldwork, testing, review, and wrap-up. The exact labels can vary, but the same hierarchy should appear in budgets, timesheets, reports, and invoices.
Each entry should capture the staff member, date, duration in hours or firm units, chargeable status, notes, and rate information when the invoice or WIP report needs it. U.S. billing and payroll fields normally use U.S. dollars. A charge-out rate can be hourly or daily and reflects the staff member's cost base, including wages, benefits, and overheads.
Recorded but unbilled time becomes work in progress, so incomplete entries make WIP value and WIP age unreliable. A common billing mistake is letting staff enter only client totals after the week closes. That hides the engagement phase, blocks clean budget-to-actual review, and weakens the basis for an invoice tied to actual timesheets and expenses.
Budget control works only when the same task structure appears in the budget and the timesheet. Firms need to compare budgeted income and expenditure by phase or task with actual time as work accumulates. Seasonal peaks make this discipline more valuable. Most accountants and auditors work full time, and longer hours are typical during quarterly audits and tax season. For covered nonexempt staff, federal overtime checks use hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek.
A one-off tracker is enough for a solo accountant who needs a quick weekly total, a simple client invoice, or a short engagement recap. It stops being enough when several staff members touch the same client, timesheets need approval, missing entries require follow-up, or managers need a record that survives billing review and payroll handoff.
A managed workflow keeps time in the same place from entry to approval. Everhour Time Tracking lets accounting teams use timers or manual entries against tasks and projects, then route logged time into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admin controls such as approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules help firms close each period with fewer corrections.
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A practical entry includes the staff member, date, client, engagement, phase or task, duration in hours or firm units, chargeable status, and a short work note. Rate information belongs in the record when the entry supports WIP, budget review, or billing. Consistent fields let partners trace an invoice back to actual timesheets and expenses.
Yes. Internal administration, training, firm meetings, and other non-chargeable work affect utilization and staffing even when the client never sees those hours on an invoice. A practical accounting-firm time system captures chargeable and non-chargeable time, then separates the two in reports so managers can see billable capacity and total workload.
WIP represents recorded time that has not been billed to the client. Time tracking supports WIP review by showing the client, engagement, amount of recorded work, and age of that work. A manager can decide whether to invoice, write down, transfer, or investigate old time before it distorts revenue and workload reports.
Yes. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, but it does not require a particular timekeeping form or system. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Payroll records must be kept at least three years, and basic time and earnings records at least two years.
Late lump-sum entry creates the problem. A weekly total marked to one client hides the task, phase, and chargeable judgment behind the work. During tax-season or audit peaks, that habit increases missing detail, makes budget alerts late, and forces billing staff to ask accountants to rebuild notes after the work has moved on.
Everhour Time Tracking lets accountants start a timer or add manual time against tasks and projects, then send entries into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules so submitted time is ready for period close.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks hour-based or money-based budgets as people log time to the project. Accounting firms can set one-time or recurring budgets and use threshold alerts at 75%, 90%, 100%, or a custom level to see when an engagement is close to its limit.
Use Everhour Time Tracking to capture accountant hours through timers or manual entries, approve timesheets, and keep task-level time ready for reports, invoices, budgets, and payroll review.
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