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Billable Hours to Budget: Fee Earner Dashboard

The information in this article applies to Acumen, a Practice Management add-on that provides enhanced reporting dashboards for your firm. To learn more, please contact your customer success manager or your account representative.

This product is currently in early access.

 

To access the Fee Earner dashboard:

  1. In Practice Management, go to Insights > Dashboards & Reports. The Business Intelligence page appears.
  2. Select Fee Earner from the list of options on the left side of the page. The Fee Earner dashboard is displayed. 

 

The Billable Hours to Budget chart on the Fee Earner dashboard tracks the actual / percentage of hours you have billed against your target hours. It helps you quickly see where performance is meeting, exceeding, or falling short of expectations. You can view this data on a This month or This year basis.

Note: KPI and actual figures are pulled from the KPI setup, which you can access by going to Accounting > Accounts > KPIs. Only fee earners with the Bill checkbox selected will be included. If your Bill Hrs is 0 for the month, the KPI target is also 0 hours.

Hover over a specific point on the graph to view details about the actual vs. budgeted hours.

Clicking this card displays the Actual to Budget (Hours & Fees) Report. You can filter the information by date range. 

 

Actual to Budget (Hours & Fees) Report Details

This report includes the following information:

  • Fiscal Year: Select the timeframe you want to review. 
  • Budget Hours: Shows your billable hours target as set by firm admins.
  • Actual Hours: Lists all time entries you have marked as billable for the period. Non-billable time is excluded.
  • Actual Hours %: Shows calculated as Actual Hours / Budget Hours × 100.
  • Budget Fees: Shows your invoiced fees target as set by firm admins.
  • Actual Fees: Shows fees you have invoiced during the period, excluding disbursements and tax.
  • Actual Fees %: Shows calculated as Actual Fees / Budget Fees × 100.

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