Everhour Timesheets support payroll and billing review while finance teams track client, engagement, project, and staff hours.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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Finance teams need time records that identify the client, engagement, project, staff member, date, and work category. A CAS team can track monthly close work for one client, advisory calls for another, and cleanup work for a third without mixing billable activity with internal administration. The record should show the work performed, the person responsible, and the time actually spent.
This structure matters even when the invoice is fixed-fee or recurring. The 2024 CPA.com and AICPA PCPS CAS benchmark survey found that only 10% of CAS practices used hourly billing as the primary pricing method. Time still supports scope control, staffing decisions, and profitability review because fixed fees need measured effort behind them.
A useful finance timesheet starts with daily entries, not a vague weekly total. 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. Covered employers may use any complete and accurate timekeeping method for nonexempt workers, so the system matters less than the completeness of the record.
A practical entry can read: Client A, monthly close, senior accountant, 2.25 hours, billable, March 5, 2026. Add comments when the entry explains a billing exception, a scope question, or work that should stay non-billable. Use USD for U.S. rate, payroll, billing, and project cost fields unless a specific client agreement requires another currency.
Finance practices usually review time by client, engagement, project, and staff level. The 2024 CAS benchmark survey reported a median CAS practice with 10.50 staff FTE and 69 total clients. Top-performing CAS practices had 10.75 staff FTE and 102 clients. That client load makes unstructured time notes too weak for capacity and margin review.
Public accounting benchmarks also tie time records to management decisions. The 2023 National MAP Survey reported firmwide utilization at 59.6% and realization at 99% for public accounting firms. A clean timesheet lets a manager compare staff capacity, client workload, write-down patterns, and revenue per professional without rebuilding the week from emails and calendar notes.
A one-off timesheet is enough for a solo bookkeeper reconciling one client week or a small firm collecting a short-term project record. It should capture the client, task, date, staff member, billable status, and notes needed to support billing or internal review. The file should also be easy to retain with payroll or engagement records.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when several finance staff submit time across many clients. Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let managers approve, reject, partially approve, and lock submitted time. That approval trail gives finance teams a steadier handoff to billing review, payroll review, and engagement reporting.
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Finance timesheets should track the client, engagement, project, staff member, date, time spent, billable status, and a short work description. Total hours alone cannot show whether time belongs to monthly close work, tax support, advisory service, cleanup, or internal administration. That detail supports billing review, capacity planning, and margin analysis.
Fixed-fee finance engagements still need time records because the invoice amount does not show the effort required to deliver the work. The 2024 CPA.com and AICPA PCPS CAS benchmark survey found that only 10% of CAS practices used hourly billing as the primary pricing method. Time records still help teams evaluate scope, staffing, and profitability.
Finance teams should assign each entry to a billable or non-billable category at the time of entry. Client delivery, advisory calls, and project work usually need client and engagement labels. Internal meetings, training, admin cleanup, and practice management should stay separate so utilization and realization metrics do not blur client work with overhead.
For covered nonexempt employees under the FLSA, 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 of pay. Hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes. State rules, employment agreements, or firm policies can add requirements.
The common mistake is entering a weekly total without client, engagement, and task detail. That record forces a reviewer to guess which work belongs on an invoice, which work exceeds scope, and which work should remain internal. Daily, labeled entries give the finance manager a defensible basis for billing review and client follow-up.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person so finance managers can review submitted time before billing or payroll use. Managers can approve, reject, partially approve, and lock entries, which keeps corrected time separate from unreviewed work.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into reports by client, project, member, billable time, labor cost, revenue, and profit. Finance teams can use those reports to compare effort against engagement value and spot work that strains margin.
Track client and engagement time, submit weekly records, and lock approved entries before billing or payroll review. Everhour gives finance teams cleaner billing and payroll review.
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