Hidden Options to View Time Reports in QuickBooks

If you are using QuickBooks to track time, you probably know about the reports available when clicking Reports > Jobs, Time and Mileage.

Reports such as:

• Time by Job Summary
• Time by Job Detail
• Time by Name
• Time by Item

are the standard reports offered in QuickBooks.

But did you know there are even more ways to display the data on these reports?

Click the "Modify Report" button the upper left hand corner of any of these jobs/time and mileage reports and you then have another option that says "Display time grouped by" with several additional options. The options available change based on the time report you are viewing. 

For example, I pulled up the Time by Name report and these additional grouping options appear:

• Time by Name by Job
• Time by Name by Item
• Time by Name by Job by Item
• Time by Name by Item by Job

If you were sitting in the Time by Item report, you would see similar options, but the choices would begin with "Time by Item by...." instead.

This one little tweak to a time report recently helped a client go from using a report of marginal benefit to one of tremendous benefit.

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Scott Gregory is a specialist with QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise accounting software. He has been helping businesses "think beyond the ledger" for over 25 years.

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