After it is approved
Corrections, reopened periods, disputes, and the amendment nobody can find later.
Correcting a Week That Has Been Approved
Approved does not mean right. What a correction has to preserve, who has to agree to it, and why overwriting is the one thing never to do.
Reopening a Closed Period
Unlocking a period that finance has closed is a decision with consequences in four systems. Who can do it and what it costs should be settled before it is asked for.
The Audit Trail You Will Need Later
What the trail has to contain, how long to keep it, and the configuration decisions that quietly destroy it long before anybody asks.
When the Employee Disagrees With the Record
A dispute about recorded hours is a pay dispute wearing a clerical costume. Handling it as clerical is how it becomes a formal one.
When the Client Disputes the Hours
An invoice query becomes an examination of your timesheet process. What they ask for, what you are able to produce, and what the gap costs.
When You Think Somebody Is Inflating
The rarest case and the one handled worst. What the data can and cannot establish, and why the first move decides the outcome.
Errors Found Three Years Later
The expensive discoveries are always old ones. Where they come from, why they surface when they do, and what reduces the size of the surprise.