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Subject:RE: Accounting for TW time From:Jim Shaeffer <jims -at- spsi -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:23:09 -0500
My situation parallels Dana's (see snip below). At our
40-person company we are all tied into an online time
tracking system (my time card looks like an electronic
spread sheet).
It's used to determine project costs and billable vs.
non-billable time. It's set up primarily for the developers
but everybody's pay check is based on it.
I'm a lone writer.
We're in Florida.
Jim Shaeffer (jims -at- spsi -dot- com)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dana Worley [mailto:dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com]
>
> As a full-time employee, I am required to fill out a time
> card weekly.
> On the time card, I record time in/time out for each day, and the
> percent of time that I spent on any particular task. All of
> our projects
> are given an accounting code, whether they are engineering or
> marketing related. In a given day, I may charge to customer support,
> training, development on a project (help files), or testing a project.
>
> Our company has right around 200 people. Everyone in the
> company fills out a time card (well, maybe the execs are exempt
> from this...). Accounting uses this information to determine how
> much a project costs to complete, and I know that my manager
> looks at the card to determine where I am spending my time.
>
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