Potential billable hours
Employees × hours per day × working days
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Estimate how much revenue your business loses when manual timers, late timesheets and incomplete time records allow billable work to go unrecorded.
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CUSTOMER-REPORTED RESULTS · COSO IT
30 COSO IT employees using Backlsh
10+ hrs saved weekly on reporting
20+ hrs recovered for billable work
50% increase in transparency
The calculator starts with your available monthly billable capacity, estimates how much time is affected by incomplete tracking, and applies the portion that cannot be recovered later.
Employees × hours per day × working days
Potential hours × non-compliance rate
Affected hours × unrecovered share
Lost hours × average billable rate
Timer non-compliance includes work recorded late, entered incompletely, assigned to the wrong project or never entered. The unrecovered percentage accounts for time that cannot be accurately reconstructed and invoiced.
A team with six expected billable hours per person, a blended rate of $75 and an 8% time-record compliance gap has 317 hours affected every month. If 40% cannot be recovered, approximately 127 billable hours—and $9,504 in monthly revenue—may be lost.
“Backlsh gives us much better analytics, and with those insights, we are able to achieve our objectives.”
Short calls, research and client messages are easy to overlook when recording depends on memory.
End-of-week estimates miss context and often understate the time actually spent on delivery.
Hours recorded against the wrong client or project become harder to validate and invoice.
By the time managers review incomplete entries, the employee may no longer remember the work accurately.
Client-service hours that could have been invoiced but were not recorded accurately enough to support billing.
Multiply lost billable hours by your average billing rate. This calculator estimates lost hours from non-compliance and the unrecovered share.
There is no universal benchmark. Use your own audit data where possible and choose a conservative percentage you can explain.
No. Capture can become more complete, but invoicing also depends on contracts, approval rules, utilization, team behavior and management processes.
Yes. Compare the annual impact with the annual cost of a system, including implementation cost and the share you realistically expect to recover.