Decimal hours: how to convert timesheets without changing the bill
An hour and thirty minutes is 1.5 hours. The expensive mistakes happen when a timesheet, an export, and an invoice disagree about that.
Topic
Billing and invoicing
Turning tracked hours into an invoice, and the invoice into money.
Realization rate vs utilization: where billable work loses its value
A busy team can still discount away its work. Utilization shows how capacity was used; realization shows what happened to the value of billable time.
How to write a client time report that explains the work
A total tells the client how much time you spent. A useful report shows what moved forward, where the budget stands, and what needs a decision.
From tracked hours to an invoice that gets paid
The gap between doing the work and having the money is mostly administrative, and mostly avoidable. What to put on the invoice, when to send it, and how to chase without damaging the relationship.
A timesheet approval process people don't resent
Approvals exist to protect the invoice, not to police the team. The difference shows up in what the approver is actually looking at.
How to track billable hours without hating it
Most time tracking advice assumes the problem is discipline. It usually is not — it is that the system asks for more precision than the work can supply.
Numbers like these, without the spreadsheet
Utilization, effective hourly rate and project margin, straight out of tracked time.
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