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“We have built mobile applications and tools that make it beautifully simple to use our software and stay compliant. Now, everyone from employees to supervisors can track and manage timekeeping on the go,” says Matt Rissell, TSheets’ CEO. “Our secure web-based solution means no downtime and no expensive modules, no slow clunky software, and you receive the benefits of instant updates instead of time-consuming installs.”

TSheets’ timekeeping technology has received the validation of an independent DCAA compliance consulting firm, Mike McNew and Associates. With TSheets, time can be tracked against specific projects or job codes, and an audit trail exists for daily time entries, as well as for corrections, approvals and adjustments. Immediate and flexible reporting is also an essential feature, especially in the case of an audit.

Beyond native apps for smartphones with GPS stamping, TSheets’ solution allows mobile contracting employees to track time using SMS text messaging, an internet browser, even Twitter.

“Most timekeeping companies offer expensive and complicated modules to be DCAA compliant, but that really only complicates the day-to-day tracking, management and reporting it takes to protect against audits in the real world,” says Mike McNew, head of McNew and Associates, a government contracts management and compliance consulting firm. “TSheets is different. It’s point-and-click easy for supervisors and employees to use and understand, while providing the pinpoint accuracy, record keeping detail and audit trail the government requires.”

Many timekeeping companies offer expensive and complicated packages and software that claim to be DCAA compliant, but that really only complicate the day-to-day tracking, management and reporting it takes to protect against audits in the real world,” says Mike McNew, head of McNew and Associates, a government contracts management and compliance consulting firm.

“TSheets is different. It’s easy for supervisors and employees to use and understand, while providing the pinpoint accuracy, record keeping detail and audit trail the government requires.”

In order to be DCAA compliant, contractors must keep accurate records of employee time, including tracking hourly time worked against specific projects or tasks. An audit trail must exist for daily time entries, as well as for corrections, approvals and adjustments. Reporting is also an essential element, especially in the case of an audit.

“We are excited to offer a DCAA compliant solution to our customers that doesn’t require them to add expensive modules,” says Matt Rissell, CEO of TSheets. “When you couple our already user-friendly time tracking system with the validation of a DCAA compliance consulting firm, you’ve reached government contracting bliss.”

TSheets is a secure, web-based solution that allows even traveling employees to accurately clock in or out on a smartphone, online, by text or phone, or through other flexible options. A time and date stamped audit trail exists on approvals, modifications, timesheet corrections, adjustments and submissions.

“DCAA compliance means perfecting and standardizing the process of timekeeping all the way down the line, with instantaneous and accurate time tracking, management and reporting,” notes McNew. “TSheets allows companies of every size to fall in line seamlessly, without impacting their bottom line.”

***While TSheets meets the material requirements of the FAR and DCAA for proper timekeeping, you should seek advice and proper council from a firm specializing in DCAA audit and compliance matters to ensure full compliance.

Read the January edition of the newsletter.

“The time has arrived. The QuickBooks timer is gone, and for some, panic has probably set in,” says Matt Rissell, TSheets CEO. “You may have switched or rolled over to their suggested solution, but like so many others, you may be disappointed. We are sorry you are going through this, but we want to make the transition as easy as possible.”

Former QuickBooks customers can import their data directly into TSheets.com to preserve history. Then the Timesheets created in TSheets will easily integrate back into QuickBooks for ease of billing and financial recording.

Less expensive than QuickBooks was, TSheets is also now extending a coupon code for these customers in transition. Plus, a dedicated support representative will be there to help them walk through the change over.

We’ve had tremendous demand for this new application, and we want to do right by you. So help us understand the unique requirements of your business. We’re now accepting applicants to work one-on-one with us to try out this new setup for QuickBooks Windows. Get your name on the list, as slots are quickly filling up. Simply fill out the below form:

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Lucky for you, everything we’ve been working on in the backroom will soon help you shed more light on payroll in the workroom and the boardroom, and speed up the reporting process as a whole. We’re still finalizing the new feature and working with beta testers to fine tune it, but here’s a preview of the benefits of our new payroll reporting:

• Improves speed with a new reporting engine.
• Looks and works better with a visually appealing user interface.
• Makes PTO and overtime easy to spot and utilize.

This is the first of our reports on the new look and feel of payroll with TSheets. We’re designing this new feature specifically for payroll reporting purposes, and specifically for the needs and wishes of our customers. So if you want to get in on the design process from the ground up, become a beta tester by filling out the form below.

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I have immediate family members that are Penn State Alumni and this email was sent to them…

If you’re a Penn State Alum, Ohio State Fan, or just a College Football fan for that matter, this is a MUST read.

[Source: Ohio State Alum]

“Dear Penn State Fan/Alumni,
You don’t know me. Sure, we may have seen each other once or twice at a road game or a tailgate, but aside from a passing glance, and an occasional hello, we are strangers. Heck, we’re actually more like enemies. After all, I’m a fan of The Ohio State University – tOSU, or O$U as you might call it. Since you guys joined the Big Ten Conference in the early-90s we’ve built a pretty spirited rivalry, with more than its fair share of heroics, heartbreaks, and triumphs. To be sure, we’ve both crossed the line on occasion. Urine balloon barbs and incontinence jabs have clouded the fact that we’re actually not that different, you and I. We’re both proud disciples of two of the most storied programs in all of college football, and although you’d be hard pressed to get a Buckeye fan to say it to your face, we respect the hell out of you and your traditions.

I’m writing because I know how you feel right now. The actions of your beloved president, coach, and athletic director have shaken your program to the core and have threatened your own faith in humanity. You’re shocked that someone you idolized could have done something so stupid, so selfish, so infuriatingly contradictory to the values they spent decades promoting. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not comparing what happened in Columbus to what’s alleged to have happened in State College. Only Bob Ryan is stupid enough to draw that parallel. What I am saying is that I know what it feels like to have a personal hero disgraced. To watch someone you admire, who did more good in a week than most of us do in our entire lifetimes get publicly shamed, and forced out under a cover of darkness. To see a legacy irrevocably stained and treasured accomplishments tarnished. To have one person’s mistakes drag your university’s good name through the mud. To be labeled an accomplice to the crime by virtue of your fan allegiances.

As I was driving to work this morning, I heard one of your own call in to The Herd and explain that he didn’t know how he was going to unapologetically put on the Blue and White and sing “Fight On, State” this Saturday. He’s not the only one to express that sentiment. Perhaps you’re feeling a little this way.

This is what I want to say to you. You are not Joe Paterno. You are not Tim Curley. You are not Gary Schultz. You are not Graham Spanier, and you are sure as hell not Jerry Sandusky. Their alleged sins are not your own. They may be the most recognizable faces of your beloved program, but they are not Penn State. They are not a 156 year old center of higher learning. They are not a century of football tradition. Their flaws cannot eclipse the innumerable scientific, artistic, and humanitarian contributions your university, and its 44,000 students and 570,000 living alumni have made and will continue to make to the world at large.

The spirit of a program, of a university, and of a state is so much bigger than any one person.

So do yourself a favor, and stop thinking about Joe Paterno. No amount of discussion can change what happened, and his bed is made for better or worse. Recognize that only time can tell how he will be remembered. (For what it’s worth, I hope beyond hope that the facts turn out favorably.) Say a prayer for the children, and on Saturday, put on your Silas Redd jersey, brave the cold, and cheer your ass off for your team.
Not because you support the coaches, because you support the men on the field. Not because you endorse the administration, because you believe in the University as a collective whole. Penn State University has always been (and will always be) about one thing and one thing only: making life better.

It’s not just a motto, it’s a mission. And you’re still a part of that.

Pray for the children. Cheer for the team. And in two weeks, make the drive to Columbus, so you can watch us bury your Big Ten title aspirations in person.”

“We understand what these QuickBooks customers must be going through right now, and we want to help. They’re likely thinking about how essential time tracking is to the core of their business and billings. They’re probably thinking about all the productivity loss of transitioning to a new system. Fortunately, our solution is sophisticated but simple to use and implement. TSheets is geared to easily get QuickBooks’ customers back to work right on schedule and on time,” says Matt Rissell, TSheets CEO.

In a secure, web-based application, TSheets offers businesses flexible and mobile ways to track, manage and report time. User-friendly on a wide array of platforms—from web browsers to iPhone and Android apps with GPS—TSheets allows employers and employees to track time against multiple levels of job codes in real-time or retroactively, manage overtime, manage paid time off / accruals, perform supervisor approvals, and many other labor management and reporting capabilities.

To make the transition easier and to preserve your time tracking history, TSheets can import your old data from QuickBooks Time Tracker and Time and Billing Manager into TSheets.

Use this coupon code: QB2011 and get your first month free. Find more at www.TSheets.com.

Intuit is a phenomenal organization and I’m sure that this was a difficult decision for them to make. They are a longtime partner of TSheets and we simply want to help them make this transition for their customers as easy as possible.

That said, we have had a substantial influx of former QuickBooks time tracking customers come to us for help, and I commit to you, we will help.

Our solution is sophisticated but simple to use and implement and it’s geared to easily get QB customers back to work – fast:

• Import your old QuickBooks data directly into TSheets.com to preserve your history
• Timesheets created in TSheets integrates directly into QuickBooks
• You can get a dedicated support rep (wouldn’t that be nice?)
• We are less expensive that QuickBooks (was) :)

Bottom-line: We understand the impact that this can have on your business and we will do whatever it takes to make sure you don’t miss a beat.

To make it even easier to switch, here’s a special Coupon Code QB2011 (expires 12/1/11) for an additional Free Month!