Historically in many agencies creative staff members only do creative work and record their time for this work in a time recording system – ideally electronically. Experience from many training classes for creative teams in using a computerised timesheet system has however shown that the majority of them are also open to learn about how their projects perform in a…
“I just couldn’t do without Excel!” This is something heard all over again when running project management software courses for account managers. Spreadsheets are used for calculating budgets, recording costs and income, calculating profitability by comparing both and much more. Even client facing documents, such as quotations and sales invoices are often prepared in spreadsheets rather than word processing…
When running training classes for project managers, one of the issues coming up time and again is that projects look profitable only until after they have been completed. Only when some time later all third party invoices have been received by the accounts department and been allocated to the job bag, the profitability suddenly turns out to be much…
In many businesses in the creative industry, in particular in their early years, freelancers play a major role in delivering work for which no internal resource is available. Then again, for well-established companies where ideally their own permanent workforce should source all the fee income generated, there might come a point, where for one reason or another – be it…
Nobody likes doing timesheets. It appears to many users – in particular the creative users within an organization – to be a way of monitoring every single minute of their time. It doesn’t encourage them either to enter timesheets if they are well aware that they are the only ones having to record their time, whilst the very same…