Approve Project Time

Explanation

Time reported for a project activity can be approved manually or automatically. Once the approval is completed, cost accounting for the reported time can proceed.

Contractor Project Reporting

When a contractor reports time for a project, the reported time transaction becomes eligible for matching with an external supplier invoice upon approval.

Multi-Company Reporting

In multi-company project reporting, when the project transaction of the customer company is approved, the Customer Transaction Approved checkbox on the corresponding employee company transaction will automatically be ticked. Note that the customer company transaction is not affected by the NOAPRCON property.

Approval Property Setting

The definition of whether the reported time should be manually or automatically approved is determined by the NOAPRCON property. This property can be found in the Company Details/Property tab.

If the property of NOAPRCON is set to:

TRUE a superior user will be required to approve the reported time after it has been confirmed.
FALSE or Null, the time will be approved along with the confirmation.

Prerequisites

The employee time should be reported and confirmed.

System Effects

Once the reported time is approved, it will be ready for cost accounting.
If it is a project transaction created by a contractor, and if the total internal quantity of the transactions to be approved is equal or higher than the quantity of the connected purchase order line, then the connected purchase order line will be closed automatically.
If the transaction was reported by a contractor, it is ready to be matched with an external supplier invoice.

If it is a multi-company project reporting transaction, approving the customer company transaction will result in the Customer Transaction Approved option of the employee transaction to be enabled. The transaction is ready for multi-company project reporting transaction transfer and the corresponding employee transaction is ready for invoicing.