I couldn’t help but notice that the Breaktime forum doesn’t have a file swap like another particular forum does. Well, it does now! May this thread begin the trading of the best business forms out there!<!—-> <!—-><!—->
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I’ll start this off with one of the forms I created. This time card is one of the best forms for recording labor I could come up with:<!—-> <!—->
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For some reason that first post didn't include the "Numbers" and "Units" columns. Let me try this again.
-T
I need a new time card design BAD.
When I tried to open yours, all I got was gibberish and symbols???Live in the solution, not the problem.
When I tried to open yours, all I got was gibberish and symbols???
It appears to be a Microsoft Word document. I don't have Microsoft Office on the laptop that I'm using, but the document opens just fine with OpenOffice Writer (which is free).
Bob
If it's easier, here it is as a .pdfPJ
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Got it, thanks.
Needed to adjust some puter settings.Live in the solution, not the problem.
T,
This isn't revolutionary by any means and it serves the individual only.
I use the week at a glance book-5x8''. Has a page a day. I write my in/out on the top of the page. I enter total hours next to that and circle it. A description of work performed under that. Notes on job conditions, volume and extenuating circumstances go below the description. Materials might be entered (for small repairs) but usually p/u or delivery rcpts are kept in a job folder next to me in a clipbd.
If I had employees I'm sure a time/completed task description would be a necessity. However, most time cards I've run across (with the exception of Smitty's) have just enough room for hours. Areas for notes and material used are always too small/and a crammed description is almost legible. Having a numbered job description index won't tell the whole story, but I believe that's the best one could get-time alloted to a group of tasks which are keyed by number. For instance, I think that's what you are doing with your example. However, your material section is no way enough room for any type of list. An electrician I work with uses the backside of a day card for his material entry.
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Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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That is exactly how I have done it for years now. I sometimes jot the milage down on fill ups and repairs.
Easy to keep in the van and when Invoice time comes, it all gets wrote up on the puter and emailed or delivered.
I toss the original book at years end into the back up for taxes box.
Works for me.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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More than once I have checked back in the stored bibles to refresh my memory about something or another pertaining to a certain job.
The quickbooks history and search feature really helps to narrow down at least the month.
How many times have people asked you whatever with the lead in "remember when you..........."?
An elephant, I'm not.
A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
Edited 12/27/2007 12:01 pm ET by calvin