Management of staff Managing Human Resources

215 Figure 17.8: Employees’ monthly summary timesheet • Reviewing profit of timesheet, using the menu Human Resources → Reporting → Timesheets → Timesheet Profit . • You can then use the statistical reports to analyze your services by period, by product or by account using the menu Human Resources → Reporting → Timesheets → Timesheet Analysis and Human Resources → Reporting → Timesheets → Timesheet Sheet Analysis. Figure 17.9: Chart of timesheet by account The data making up these list view can be varied using the filters available in the upper part of the screen. If you want to see more detail, switch to the graph view.

17.2.4 Evaluation of service costs

You already know that timesheets are closely linked with analytic accounts. The different projects reported on the timesheets correspond to analytic accounts. The timesheet entries themselves are analytic entries. These entries comprise various analytic operations that don’t correspond to any of the general accounts. Therefore all operations that modify and create timesheet lines automatically impact the corresponding analytic line and, conversely are automatically modified by changes in that line. Note: Timesheets and analytical data The implementation of timesheets in Open ERP relating to analytic entries is managed by an inheritance mecha- nism: the timesheet object inherits the analytic entry object. The information is therefore not encoded into the database as two separate events, which avoids many synchro- nization problems. They are stored in two different tables, however, because a service is an analytical entry, but an analytical entry is not necessarily a service. This is not a classical approach but it is logical and pragmatic. Employee timesheets are a good indication of how the costs of a service enterprise are spread across different cases as reported in the analytic accounts. An analytic account should be reflected in the general accounts, but there is no direct counterpart of these analytic accounts in the general accounts. Instead, if the hourly costs of the employees are correctly accounted for, the month’s timesheet entries should be balanced by the salary + benefits package paid out to all the employees at the end of the month.