Navigation: Finances → T&M Expenses
T&M Expenses indicate information about expenses related to T&M contracts. T&M Expenses can be billed for client.
Review T&M Expense form
1. General information about T&M Expense is provided in tab General. You have to fill in this information when creating new T&M Expense.
2. In tab Media it is possible to attach files. Click Select Files or do Drag & Drop.
3. In tab Notes it is possible to leave notes. Click Add note to create new note.
4. Available Info Tabs:
- Tasks: List of tasks related to the T&M Expense. Click to add new Task or and select Process to generate Tasks from a template.
- Process: allows initiating processes and seeing the progress of initiated processes. If multiple processes are running, you can cancel active processes with Cancel all at the same time, .
- Triggers: allows seeing and adding Task triggers related to this Task.
- Revisions: history of actions taken with the T&M Expense.
- Groups: allows grouping T&M Expenses according to types determined (list is taken from Settings → Groups).
5. Available navigation buttons:
- Add new: is used to create new T&M Expense.
- To list: is used to go to the list of T&M Expenses.
Create new T&M Expense
To create new Purchase follow these steps:
1. Go to Finances → T&M Expenses and in the list of T&M Expenses click or go to related Project’s tab Budget and click .
2. Fill in fields in tab General:
- Title: indicates what the particular T&M Expense is.
- Status: indicates the Status of particular T&M Expense (list is taken from Settings → Expense → Status).
- Planned amount: indicates planned value of the T&M Expense.
- Planned date: indicates planned date of the T&M Expense.
- Actual amount: indicates actual value of the T&M Expense.
- Planned cost amount: indicates planned cost value of the T&M Expense.
- Actual cost amount: indicates actual cost value of the T&M Expense.
- Planned date: indicates the date when the T&M Expense is planned.
- Expenditure date: indicates the date when the T&M Expense was done.
- Tax: tax rate for the T&M Expense.
- Document number: indicates unique document number of the T&M Expense.
- Approval date: indicates Approval date of the T&M Expense.
- Approved by: User who has approved the T&M Expense.
- Add to report: turn ON that the T&M Expense would be included in relevant Time reports.
- Additional expenses: turn ON that the expense would be included in purchase budget, Additional expenses planned amount column.
- Supplier: indicates supplier (list is taken from Sales→ Accounts) of the T&M Expense.
- Account: indicates Account for whose contract the T&M Expense is being used.
- Project: indicates Project that the T&M Expense is used for.
- Activity: indicates Activity that the T&M Expense is used for.
- Acceptance certificate: indicates Acceptance Certificate that the T&M Expense is related to.
- Purchase: indicates purchase that the expense is used for.
- Owner: indicates Owner of the T&M Expense. By default it is the user who is entering expense’s information. If required can be manually changed.
3.Click Save.
Create Task related to T&M Expense
It is possible to create Tasks related to T&M Expense in several locations of the system: Kanban window, Tasks list window, T&M Expense form, T&M Expenses list window.
To create new Task related to T&M Expense in the T&M Expense form follow these steps:
1. In tab Tasks click .
2. Fill in Task’s information and click Save.
Generate a set of Tasks related to T&M Expense (initiate Process)
It is possible to generate a set of Tasks related to Purchase from a template (initiate a predefined process). To generate a set of Tasks related to T&M Expense follow these steps:
- In tab Tasks click and select Process or in tab Process click .
- Select process template from the drop-down menu (list is taken from Settings → Processes).
- Define date when process should start / finish.
- Define date type: Start – First Task of the process will start on the indicated date, Finish – dates of the process Tasks will be defined so that the process would end on the indicated date. Important: there is a possibility to define process finish date only if process does not have decision tasks.
- Active Update dates option automatically updates tasks dates when changes in process task planned dates are made.
- Click Save.
Perform actions in the list of T&M Expenses
1. As in all lists, you can work with T&M Expenses by using standard functionality buttons: filter T&M Expenses, add new T&M Expense, change table properties, search T&M Expenses, narrow or extend information view-able in table cells, copy T&M Expense, edit or add additional information to the T&M Expense, delete T&M Expense from the list.
2. It is possible to see how many related Not Started, In Progress, Waiting, Done or Cancelled tasks T&M Expenses has.
3. It is possible to perform actions with T&M Expenses in the list without opening the entries. After selecting single or multiple T&M Expenses by marking lines or selecting all T&M Expenses by clicking button available actions are:
- Export records: is used to export selected T&M Expenses to MS Excel file.
- Set Status: is used to set status of selected T&M Expenses.
- Set Type: is used to set type of selected T&M Expenses.
- Set Owner: is used to set owner of selected T&M Expenses.
- Set Visible in Report: is used to set selected T&M Expenses visible in Time reports.
- Set Not Visible in Report: is used to set selected T&M Expenses not visible in Time reports.
- Set Groups: is used to set up a group for selected T&M Expenses.
- Create Task: is used to create new Task related to selected T&M Expenses. In case several T&M Expenses are selected several Tasks will be created.