BillQuick eLetter- August 2010
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In This Issue:

Article: Cost Budgets

User Tip: 15 Ways to Use a Budget

User Tip: Appointments into Time Entries

User Tip: Invoice Numbers & Dates

Article: Business iPad

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Cost Budgets

Many firms with lump sum or fixed fee contracts prefer to budget by cost, not the bill value of the hours. At times other contract types may require a cost-based budget.

Beginning in 2009, cost-based budgets became a standard BillQuick feature.

When defining your budget, BillQuick inserts the correct Cost Rate for an employee or consultant. It will be their default cost rate, or it will be a special rate from a designated service fee schedule. Also, you can pull in a cost rate from the Activity Table if you wish.


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15 Ways to Use a Budget

Budgets are often the primary tool that project managers and principals use to manage the scope of work being done for a client.

You may think that a budget is a budget is a budget. It is. . .but it is also a lot more in BillQuick. Here’s all the things you can do with a budget in BillQuick:

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Appointments into Time Entries

After meeting with an appointment or after completing a task, what do you do to capture the minutes or hours spent? Write it down in your time sheet (when you get around to it)? Wait until the end of the week or month and then scan your calendar to see what happened?

What about emails. . . How many emails did you read, respond to and write today, this week, this month? How many 1 minute, 3 minute and 5 minute emails did you handle? Did you capture the time spent?

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Invoice Numbers & Dates

Sometimes your clients want the invoice number presented a certain way. Or you might prefer that invoice numbers include the type of service it covers to make it easier to identify them in lists.

Or invoices are created over days and they need to be dated the same day.

Here’s shortcut information to help you.

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Business iPad

Enterprises from hospitals to Fortune 500 companies, in training facilities in Britain . . . many business are adopting iPads and finding productive and profitable ways to use them.

But in the Apple Store, the business apps are slow in coming, ever so slow.

“Patience,” I tell myself. “It takes time to design applications. It takes time to program. It takes time to. . .”


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