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Strategic Forecasting Part 3: Modeling Staffing and Productivity Curves for Accurate Financial Planning
In part one of this series of articles, I discussed "Strategic Financial Forecasting: How Time Tracking Data Transforms Multi-Year Financial Models." In part two, I focused on "Building a Calendar System that Anchors Multi-Year Models." In this article, I will explain how to create staffing and resource allocation models using actual productivity curves for more accurate and actionable forecasts.
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Capital vs. Operating Expenses: A Guide for IT and Finance Leaders
Balancing CapEx and OpEx is key to financial efficiency and scalability. This guide helps IT and finance leaders optimize IT spending, track costs, and avoid budgeting pitfalls.
General Business
Insights
Professional Services
Project Management
Resource Planning
Motivating Your Team: How to Make Work Matter
Motivation’s a tricky thing. We often imagine that it’s prompted by external rewards or punishments (in fact, the whole conditioning theory of psychology is based on this idea), but in fact motivation isn’t just a response to external stimuli: motivation really takes hold when we internalize those goals, when they become a part of us.
Employee Management
Leadership & Growth
Resource Allocation: It’s Not Just for Project Managers
At its core, the problem of resource allocation comes down to a simple premise: given a limited set of resources, how can you best utilize them to reach a desired result?
Employee Performance
Project Management
Cost Control in Scenario Planning for CapEx Projects: Why Real-Time Labor Data Is the Hidden Lever
In capital projects, fixed costs rarely derail budgets—it’s the unseen labor. ERP systems provide visibility but often miss the most variable cost driver: people. Real-time labor data shifts cost control from reactive to proactive, helping teams forecast better, catch overruns sooner, and protect margin.
Taxes>CapEX
Compliance
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Professional Services
How Software Can Help Streamline Nonprofit Operations
Upgrading your current nonprofit software solutions? Learn how you can verify that you’re making the most of your new or existing tools.
Nonprofit
How to Write a Grant Budget to Win Your Dream Grant
Applying for grants can be a frustrating, time-consuming process. Different foundations have different requirements. Funders’ priorities vary based on their foundations’ missions. And the more money you’re asking for — especially if that money comes from the state or federal government — the more you’re asking for scrutiny into your nonprofit’s activities.
Grant Management
Nonprofit
Why Spreadsheets Are Failing Your CapEx Tracking—and What to Do Instead.
Spreadsheets may seem reliable for CapEx tracking, but they lead to errors, inefficiencies, and security risks. Discover why automated CapEx tracking software is the smarter, more efficient solution.
General Business
Insights
Professional Services
Project Management
Resource Planning
CapEx vs. OpEx: A Time-Tracking Perspective for Smarter Financial Strategy
CapEx vs. OpEx isn’t just an accounting distinction it’s a strategic decision. This post explores how precise time tracking helps finance and operations leaders classify labor costs accurately, optimize cash flow, and improve financial reporting. Learn how better visibility into CapEx and OpEx labor allocation can unlock smarter budgeting, stronger tax compliance, and long-term value.
General Business
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Professional Services
Project Management
Resource Planning
Maximize Your R&D Tax Credit: Adapting to New Section 174 Requirements with Better Time Tracking
Learn how to adapt to the new Section 174 requirements introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with effective time tracking. Discover strategies to maximize your R&D Tax Credit, meet compliance needs, and reduce tax burdens for research-intensive businesses like IT, biotech, manufacturing, and software.
General Business
Insights
Professional Services
Project Management
Resource Planning
Labor Cost Capitalization: Why Proper Time Tracking Matters
Learn how to supercharge firm profitability with effective resource utilization for profitability improvement. This guide offers insights into enhancing profit margins, strategic financial planning, and resource management for professional services firms seeking sustainable growth.
Billing Rates
Taxes>CapEX
Consulting
Employee Management
General Business
The Hidden Economics of Engineering: How Clean Data Input Systems Transform Cost Management
Engineering labor is often a company's largest cost—and its least understood. This article explores how clean data input systems transform cost management, enabling better resource allocation, audit readiness, and financial strategy. For engineering-led organizations, clean data isn't overhead it's infrastructure for economic advantage.
Cost Management
The Strategic Imperative of Time Tracking in Biotech R&D
Despite significant advances in scientific innovation, many biotech organizations continue to operate with outdated or fragmented systems for managing time and resources. This operational gap—specifically the lack of real-time visibility into how scientific personnel and infrastructure are deployed—has become one of the most preventable and consequential barriers to research productivity.
Future of Work
Time Off
Upcoming Changes to Internal-Use Software Accounting: What Operations and Finance Needs to Know
Learn about the FASB’s proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) for internal-use software costs. Understand key changes, impacts on cost tracking and budgeting, and how ClickTime can simplify compliance and labor cost reporting.
Billing Rates
Consulting
Employee Management
General Business
Insights
Strategic Forecasting Part 3: Modeling Staffing and Productivity Curves for Accurate Financial Planning
In part one of this series of articles, I discussed "Strategic Financial Forecasting: How Time Tracking Data Transforms Multi-Year Financial Models." In part two, I focused on "Building a Calendar System that Anchors Multi-Year Models." In this article, I will explain how to create staffing and resource allocation models using actual productivity curves for more accurate and actionable forecasts.
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You're Doing Capacity Planning Wrong
Discover the key to successful capacity planning in our latest blog. Unveil how technology can transform your firm's approach to forecasting staff utilization, project volume, and profitability. Stop the struggle with fragile spreadsheets and manual inputs.
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