1. Implement Time entry for all employees to log time to client projects

2. Implement expense entry for actual expense + things like per-diems. This was a multi-currency implementation spanning multiple geographies. Expenses were converted to the base currency – USD in this case

3. Report to Project managers the project actual cost versus budget of the project at any point of time.

4. Calculate percent complete on a project so that for fixed price project revenue recognition could be GAAP compliant and not driven by billing. For example, if a project is at 50% complete but billing was at 75% GAAP rules require that the revenue recognized be at 50%. 

5. Allowed the finance team to defer billed revenue to be recognized at later periods.

6. Measure project profitability by measuring time, expenses and vendor costs on the cost side versus recognized revenue. Be also able to measure unbilled revenue (completed but not billed) and unbilled and unshipped revenue (basically the back log)

The core technologies and applications used were Dynamics GP, Windows SharePoint Services, Business Portal, .NET and of course SQL Server. All on the Microsoft stack.

The end result – a powerful integrated time sheet, expense management, revenue recognition and project profitability and management reporting system running from Dynamics GP.

by Ignify – Northern California Microsoft Dynamics GP Partner

Timesheet, Expense Entry and Project Profitability in Dynamics GP – A Wonderful Reality! is a post from: ERP Software Blog

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