Setting up time-tracking
If you track time, you can set the first day of your workweek and choose which time entry form QuickBooks
displays when you click the Timesheet button on the toolbar.
To set up time tracking:
1 Choose QuickBooks > Preferences and click Time Tracking.
2 Be sure that “Keep track of time” is checked.
3 If the first day of your workweek is a day other than Monday, choose that day from the “First Day of
Work Week” list. QuickBooks adjusts your timesheets so that each weekly period begins with the day
of the week you select. If a timesheet happens to be open when you make this change, the change
does not occur in the timesheet until you close and reopen it.
4 If you prefer to make time entries one at a time, click Single Activity. This preference determines
which time entry form appears when you click the Timesheet button on the toolbar or the Record
Time button on the Employee list. QuickBooks provides two forms: one for entering the time spent by
one person on a single job on a single date (the single activity entry form), and one for entering the
time spent by one person on multiple jobs over longer periods of time (the weekly timesheet).
Which way should you enter time?
There are two ways to enter time. You can enter single activities at the time they occur, or you can enter all the
hours for each job on weekly timesheets. Choose the method that works best for your business.
Single activity entries
A single activity entry shows the time spent by one person doing a single activity for a single job on a single date.
If you are recording time spent on different jobs, you would have to make a separate entry for each job even if the
same person performed all the work.
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