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The Defense Contract Audit Agency issues no timekeeping regulation. The requirements come from the contract: DFARS 252.242-7006(c)(9) and (c)(10) require a timekeeping system that identifies labor by cost objective and a labor distribution system that charges direct and indirect labor correctly. Everything else called a “DCAA requirement” is audit practice derived from those two criteria…

An employee monitoring policy is a written document that tells employees what the employer monitors, why, where, how long the data is kept and who can see it. Four states — New York, Delaware, Connecticut and Maine — require notice before monitoring begins, each by a different mechanism, and two of those four laws changed…

Agency time tracking exists to answer one question: did the fee cover the work. A $12,000 monthly retainer at a $120 target rate funds 100 hours. Deliver 128 and the effective rate drops to $93.75, with 28 hours of over-servicing worth $3,360. Hours by client, by role and by activity are what turn a retainer…

Tracking project progress means producing one defensible number: the percentage of planned work actually finished. That number depends on the method used to credit partially finished work, and the choice changes the answer. A project with four of ten tasks done reads 40% under a 0/100 rule and 55% under a 50/50 rule — the…

A project management dashboard shows the few numbers that tell you whether a project will finish on time and on budget. The core set is schedule variance, cost variance, the schedule and cost performance indexes, and a forecast of final cost. All four come from three inputs: the budget, the percentage of work actually complete,…

Updated 15 October 2026 Reliable employee tracking software. Clear visibility and insights into how employees work. Even remotely.Try Monitask free for 10 days Attendance tracking records when people start, break and finish, so hours, lateness and absence are accurate. The method matters less than two things most guides skip: separating protected absences from countable ones,…

The best time tracking software for consultants records time against a client and a project, separates billable from non-billable hours, and turns approved time into an invoice without re-entry. Beyond those three, the choice depends on how you bill: hourly work needs billing increments, retainers need a running balance, and fixed-fee work needs an effective…

Job costing calculates the total cost of one specific job by adding three figures: direct materials, direct labor at a burdened rate, and an allocated share of overhead. A $28 hourly wage costs roughly $40 once employer benefits are included, so job costs built on base wages run about 12% low. Contractors, agencies, manufacturers and…

Reliable employee tracking software. Clear visibility and insights into how employees work. Even remotely.Try Monitask free for 10 days The category name covers two very different products. At one end, software that counts keyboard and mouse activity during scheduled hours and takes periodic screenshots. At the other, software that logs the content of what is…

Reliable employee tracking software. Clear visibility and insights into how employees work. Even remotely.Try Monitask free for 10 days Open source monitoring tools are free to licence and not free to run. The licence question matters more than most guides admit — one popular option is under SSPL, which is not an OSI-approved open source…

Reliable employee tracking software. Clear visibility and insights into how employees work. Even remotely.Try Monitask free for 10 days The most accurate way to keep track of work hours is to record start and end times the moment they happen, in whatever tool you will actually open. A dedicated hour tracker app loses the fewest…