Timeslips - Your Trusted Time Management and Time Billing Software - E-Newsletter June 2010.
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Issue Highlights:

 

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Director's Message

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Feature Article - Planning for 2010/2011 financial year

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Tips and Tricks: Timeslips - Numeric Custom Fields

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Training and Ongoing Support - Coming to Adelaide

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Share the Resource

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Guide to Costing & Pricing for Service Professionals

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Product Updates and Obsolescence - Is your version still supported?


MICHELE MCSHERRY
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Hello ,

I am over the jet lag and back into the swing of things after attending the SAGE annual business partner conference in Denver Colorado last month. Considering the slow economy, the conference was well attended by business partners from all over the world. It was great to catch up with all my Timeslips colleagues and find out how their businesses and clients are doing.

There are some very exciting developments on the roadmap for upcoming versions of the software. Although I can't talk about them in detail, yet, I think you will be very pleased with the new features when they are released. With Timeslips 2010 a lot of work was done behind the scenes to improve the database speed and remove old coding that was no longer needed. This is evident by the improved speed in bill generation and approval.

As we are fast approaching the end of another financial year, it's time to review and plan for 2010-2011. Below I have outlined some of the reports you should be printing and analysing as well as some considerations for your action plan for next financial year.

If you need assistance understanding the reports let us know – we are here to help.

- Michele       
 
 


Feature Article - Planning for 2010/11

 

It's that time of the year again - time to review what's been happening in your firm and planning for the next financial year.

Top Year-end Reports to Review

(if you don't already have a special reports group tab created you will find these reports under the default menus)

 

Aged Accounts Receivable - From the reports menu go to Billing, Aged A/R Balances.

This report will tell you which clients currently owe you money and help you gauge how your collection efforts are going. The longer an accounts receivable is outstanding the greater the probability of it not being paid in full (or at all).

 

Aged Invoice Listing - Run this report by going to Client, Aged Invoice Listing

This report will give you a breakdown of the invoices that make up the Aged Accounts Receivable.

 

Aged WIP (Aged Work in Process) - Run this report by going to Client, Aged WIP (do not include any date filters).

This report will tell you if any clients have unbilled time or expenses and how old they are (30, 60 , 90 days etc).

 

Invoice Listing - Run this report from the A/R Transaction tab - Filter for the date range of the financial year and under options choose to just show subtotals and totals or no detail.

This report will give a total of Invoices that have been approved in Timeslips and sent to clients.

Charges on Hold Analysis - Run this report from the Client tab

If you have slips on Hold this report will show them, additionally if you have a client hold (arrangement 1 of client information) this report will display which clients are on hold.

 

Funds with Running Balance - Run this report from the Funds tab

If you have placed any money into the Funds account this report will show you the current running balance of the clients with Funds.

Staff/Timekeeper/Consultant Productivity - Run this report from the Slips tab and select Productivity by Period. Filter the report by slip transaction date for the financial year.

This report will show you a breakdown of Billable and Unbillable - Hours Worked - Fees & Costs. You can sort this report various ways depending on how you wish to analyse the productivity of staff.**note if you have purged slips in the date range they will not be included. If you have closed or made inactive client or timekeepers be sure to remove the slip classification filter**

 

Staff/Timekeeper/Consultant Profitability - Run this report from the Slips tab and select Profitability by Period. Filter the report by slip billed on invoice date for the financial year. This report will show you Slip Fees (actual slip value) Billed Fees (billed value of slip) and Difference (profit or loss).

By running this report you will be able to determine how profitable a Staff person is. Additionally you can run this report by client/project to determine the profitability/margin of a client. This report can help you to increase the awareness of your project managers and staff to profitability.

 

After running these reports it's time to analyse them and make an action plan for next financial year.

Here are some things to think about:

1. Increase billed hours by ensuring all hours worked (both billable and non-billable) are recorded daily.

2. Analyse Administrative time and convert it into billable hours or more productive time.

3. Reduce duplicate entry by making Timeslips available to all staff to input time - there are various entry methods including slip entry, timesheet view and tstimer.

4. Use Budgeting Feature or Custom Fields to increase monitoring of budgets.

5. Reduce the time it takes to bill clients by making Timeslips available to project managers to monitor time - use Timeslips Today Dashboard and Reporting to assist.

6. Consider billing more regularly - twice a month or weekly.

 

 

 
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Tips and Tricks - Timeslips Tip

 
     
 

Custom Fields

Create new numeric fields that can be assigned custom values and can be associated with specific names. This data can be used to select, sort, and subtotal records on reports, allowing for more powerful custom report calculations. In addition, new custom field types can store money, percent, hours, and number values.

Custom field types

 

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Training and Ongoing Support - Coming to Adelaide

 
     
 

We are planning a trip to Adelaide in July (26th - 30th) to provide one-on-one Timeslips training.

If you are interested in scheduling some time for training at your office, or would like some assistance with upgrading to the latest version of Timeslips complete the linked booking form and we will be in touch to formalise dates and times.

Are you sure you are getting everything you can from Timeslips?

At TDMS our number one priority is to make sure you know how to reap all the benefits you can from your software investment. 

Do your staff need motivation to use Timeslips?

We can help you educate them on the best way to utilise Timeslips and make it quick and easy to enter their time on a daily basis.

Enquire today about Timeslips training at your office.

 
Find us in Adelaide in July

Do your  staff need motivation to use Timeslips?

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Guide to Costings and Pricing for Service Providers

 
     
 
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Program Updates and Obsolescence Policy - Is Your Version of Timeslips Still Supported?

 
     
 

The QA team at SAGE Software - Timeslips have now confirmed that Timeslips version 2010 will run successfully on the Windows 7 64-bit operating system.

Are you on the latest Service Release for your version of Timeslips?

You can check this by going to Help, About Timeslips and verifying the build number with the list below. If you are not on the latest service release let us know and we can assist you with downloading and installation.

 

SAGE 
SOFTWARE AUTHORIZED PARTNER

Timeslips 2010 - SR 1 (24/06/2009) - Build 18.0.1.0500

Timeslips 2010 - SR 2 (14/09/2009) - Build 18.0.2.0515

Timeslips 2009 - SR 1 (15/8/2008)  -  Build 17.0.1.0473

Timeslips 2009 - SR 2 (12/1/2009)  -  Build 17.0.2.0481

Timeslips 2008 - SR 1 (29/10/2007)  -  Build 16.0.1.237

   

*Important Notice to all Timeslips 2007 and lower users:

Timeslips 2007 and all lower versions are no longer supported by the manufacturer (SAGE US) and we encourage you to upgrade to the most current release in order to be eligible for support and to be compliant with new operating environments.

TDMS is the face of Timeslips in Australia & New Zealand, so please contact us with any questions you may have.

 

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Ready to upgrade to Timeslips 2010? Request an upgrade order form today.

 
 
 

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