Online training: Reports

Data is great. Information is better! Abak is a gold mine of data, do you know how to leverage that data to better manage your business? Would you like to transform Abak into a decision-making tool? Then this online training session is for you! AbaKast 102: Efficient reporting March 22nd, 2012, 1h30 – 3h30pm, Eastern Time Become [...]

Create a Configurable Resource Productivity Report in Abak

Our clients love our Resource Productivity Report because it shows the proportion of billable time VS non-billable time worked for each employee and contractor. However, some of our clients need to exclude some data from the calculations. For example, excluding vacation, sick days and other paid leave from the report might give a more accurate [...]

Eliminate blank lines in Excel reports

Some reports display blank lines in Excel when exported. This can be inconvenient for printing reports, which may end up printing over too many pages. The Simple Fix: Sort Your Data The first way to fix this is to use Excel’s Data > Sort function, which will rearrange your report content and put blank lines [...]

Cool Report: Potential Revenue Per Employee

Here is a cool report in Abak: a way to know the revenue generated per employee. Based on billable and non-billable time entered by each resource (including employees and subcontractors), the report allows comparing two time periods against one another. With this report, it’s easy to see which employees are generating the most revenue, and [...]

5 reasons why spreadsheets turn timesheets into a nightmare

Spreadsheets are great: they allow us to log a lot of information in an efficient format. They allow us to make computations, charts, and lots of fancy stuff (if you know the formulas). And because everyone has a spreadsheet program (Excel for most of us), it’s easy to send the information to someone else. Spreadsheets [...]

5 reasons data is better than your gut feeling

Ah, data. In our world of social media and relationship-based selling, it sometimes feels like data is the black sheep. Even though it’s never been so widely available as today, we still rely on our gut feeling and our intuition to know how our business is doing. Data has no feelings.  Data doesn’t try to [...]

Announcing November’s AbaKast: Reports!

AbaKast training sessions are webcasts for small groups of Abak users, where we’ll focus on a specific part of our time and billing software. In November, we’ll talk about reports! Abak’s reporting engine is quite powerful and flexible. We can export information to PDF, Word, or Excel. During November’s AbaKast session, we’ll explore how to [...]

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