| Charge Code | When to Charge |
|---|---|
| 2280 General | Catch-all for non-project related tasks which do not fall under a different charge code (general meetings, maintenance, cleaning, etc.). |
| 2230 Office Administration | Division and corporate management and accounting time (administration, financial management, human resources, etc.). |
| 2270 Training | Internal (safety meetings, PM training, etc.) and external training (conferences, courses, PDHs, and associated travel time). |
| 2241 PTO (Vacation & Excess Sick Leave) | Accrued PTO — limited to 8 hours per day to achieve no more than 40 hours in a given week. Use for personal time off and when you have exhausted your sick leave bank. |
| 2242 PTO (Sick Leave Bank) | Sick leave to reach 40 hours per week (or standard work week hours if less). Should only be charged after making all reasonable effort to make up hours through the remaining business days of the week. Not available for part-time or seasonal employees. |
| 2243 PTO (Company Sponsored Leave) | Jury duty, family medical leave (maternity, paternity, death in family). |
| 2245 Holiday | Established holidays as identified in annual corporate calendar. |
| 2246 Holiday (Floating) | To be used on or adjacent to any Federal Holiday with advanced notice and approval from supervisor. No carryover to following year. |
| 2250 Selling | Direct selling — includes time marketing and meeting with potential clients when no identifiable project exists. Should not be used without management approval. |
| 2220 Marketing (Unallowable) | Only with management approval. Lobbying efforts, trade shows, social media time and enhancing image of firm. |
| 2260 Shared Technical Resources | Only with management approval. Used for staff on stand-by awaiting work assignments. |
Recalculate all project/phase labor costs and WIP hours from approved timesheets. Use this if timesheet-driven costs appear incorrect.
Recompute phase and project amount_billed from scratch based on all active invoices. Run this once to fix any phases where pre-conversion WIP invoicing did not correctly reduce the WIP balance.
Check which expense accounts appear in the dropdown when creating expense reports.
Drag to reorder how selected accounts appear in the expense report dropdown.
Set the current GSA reimbursement rate per mile. When an employee selects a mileage account on an expense report, they will enter miles and the amount will be calculated automatically.
Link two expense accounts together so both appear when an employee selects either one. The employee enters an amount for each that sum to the line item total. Receipts are shared across the pair.
Staff Resource Planning
.sql.gz archive that can be used to restore the database to this exact point in time. This download is logged in the audit trail.gunzip backup.sql.gz) and run psql -U postgres ae_firm_erp < backup.sql on the server. Always test restores on a separate instance first.