How to See Who Has Too Little or Too Much Work On Their Plate

Best for:

  • Managers struggling with uneven work distribution across their teams.

  • Firm owners aiming to prevent employee disengagement and burnout due to over or underutilization.

  • Firm owners and operations managers who want to ensure sustainable productivity and efficiency.

It is impossible to build the firm of your dreams (whatever that dream is) when your staff are:

  • Suffering from mental and physical health issues resulting from burnout.
  • Disengaged due to underutilization.

That is why it is critical to understand when workload imbalance results from understaffing, overstaffing, or uneven work distribution.

Here’s how to use Financial Cents’ capacity management report to track your team’s workload, redistribute work effectively, and hire more hands when necessary.

“Being able to see how much is assigned to one staff versus another so that we can spread the joy of work and ensure each staff member has the appropriate amount of work? That’s a great thing.”
Michael McMullin
Managing Partner at JTC CPAs

Step-by-Step Guide:

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Step 1: Visualize Team Capacity with Dashboards

The Financial Cent’s Capacity Management Report helps you to see who can be assigned more work and who is overburdened.

Here’s how it works:

Step 2: Use the Capacity Management Report to Identify Workload Imbalances

To understand the information on the dashboard (and identify workload imbalance), you need to understand the metrics discussed in this short video:

SIDE NOTE: information in the Financial Cents Information Capacity Management Report is updated in real-time to give you instant visibility into your team’s workload.

Step 3: Reallocate Tasks Effectively

This step enables you to move work away from your overutilized to the underutilized team members to create team balance and keep everyone working at peak capacity.

Step 4: Plan Proactively for Future Projects

Once you’ve reallocated work to your team members, you can view how much work each team member has to do for the week, month, quarter or year to maintain workload balance.

Here’s how to view your firm’s one year’s worth of work:

With this information at your fingertips, planning your resources for future projects (and seasons of increased client demands like tax season for tax accountants) becomes easier.
When done well, the Financial Cents’ capacity management report will help you understand how much client work your team can complete under the current and future circumstances.
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Why Capacity Management Is a Game Changer

No firm can enjoy the benefits of a well-managed team capacity—which includes team satisfaction, improved productivity, and client service—without sufficient data to track their team’s daily, weekly, and monthly workload.

Our capacity management solution makes this data available to firm owners and managers. It tracks your staff member’s assigned and completed projects to show how much they have on their plate per day, week, and month.

It is automatic and saves you the stress of manually gathering and analyzing employees’ work hours to assign work and make capacity-related decisions.

“We use Financial Cents’ time tracking and capacity management report‌s to gain visibility on who has excess workload and know the status of a project.”
Amanda Owens
Firm Administrator at Badger CPA

Identify and Address Workload Imbalance in Real Time

Your team is either overutilized or underutilized, but you won’t know until you use a capacity management solution.

Financial Cents’ Capacity Management Report provides real-time visibility into your team’s workload.

When used well, it will solve all problems around:

  • Even distribution and redistribution of work
  • Hiring decisions on time
  • Redundancies and burnout in your accounting or bookkeeping firm.

If you have any questions, book a personalized demo. You can also use our 14-day Free Trial to see this feature for yourself.

Frequently asked questions

Does the free 14-day trial provide access to all the features?

Yes, you will have access to all the features and features that Financial Cents has to offer during your free trial. Also, you will be able to invite your entire firm to use the solution.

If the accounting software doesn’t have a feature, can you add it?

We offer a very robust accounting workflow software full of all of the features your firm needs to grow with ease. However, if there is something we don’t offer, you can recommend it to our team! We release new features every week and constantly ask our users what we need to build next so we can drive more value for their accounting firm.

So yes, if you have new feature ideas and requests, we will add them to our roadmap and work with you on the best way to develop them.

How does FC prevent work from falling through the cracks?

Financial Cents makes it easy to track the status of client work, see who’s working on what, and know where everything stands within one simple view. Financial Cents also has built-in reminders and notifications to keep your team on top of client work and deadlines.

How does Financial Cents help protect client data?

We focus on serving accounting firms, and because of that, the security of your data is our number one focus. You read about how we keep your data safe here.

What kind of support does Financial Cents offer?

Offering best-in-class customer support is the core of our business. We understand that you are busy and don’t have time to wait for someone to get back to you after a few hours. That is why we promise quick and responsive support with responses within 15 minutes. We offer live chat support directly inside the app so our team can. If we can’t solve your issue via chat, we will jump on the phone or zoom to quickly resolve your issues.

How easily can I add my clients to the software?

Adding your clients is as easy as 1, 2, 3. You can import all your clients and their data within 30 seconds with our QuickBooks Online integration. If you don’t use QuickBooks Online then you can export your client list (via CSV) from your current software and import it into our system in just a few steps.

How does FC help me automate client data collection?

Our system allows you to send your clients automated requests for data needed to complete your work. It will also follow up with them until they complete the request, so you never have to chase down your clients again. This allows you to focus on what matters most—getting your work done on time and growing your firm.

What reports are available in Financial Cents?

We offer several reports that give you insights that help you identify bottlenecks in your process, drive efficiencies, and boost your firm’s profitability. Some of those reports include capacity management, measuring your effective hourly rate, and time tracking reports.

Do you offer unlimited storage?

Yes, we offer unlimited storage for client and firm files. You can easily store all your documents in Financial Cents to keep your firm organized as it grows.

Can time tracking be integrated with QuickBooks Online for Invoicing?

Yes, you can easily integrate your time tracking with QuickBooks Online. It will automatically push all the time tracked in FC to QuickBooks Online so you can easily invoice your clients and manage payroll.

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