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Practice Capacity & Workload Planner

See who has time, who is overloaded and what is due – month by month, for the whole team

£20

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Practice Capacity & Workload Planner

Overview

Deadline-driven firms live or die by knowing who has time and what is about to be late. This planner works out each person's chargeable hours month by month from their contracted hours, chargeable target, bank holidays and planned leave. Every job – accounts, tax returns, VAT, payroll, bookkeeping and advisory – is planned into a month from its deadline (or the month you choose), and the hours left are compared with the time available to show who is stretched or overloaded. It flags overdue jobs, jobs due soon and work that has fallen behind plan, and lists the next deadlines for the whole practice.

Price
£20
Who it’s for
Practice Tools
Works with
Microsoft Excel for Windows and Mac
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See how it works

A walk through the main sheets

The sheets you will use most, in the order you will use them – shown with the sample data every workbook comes with.

Step 1

Jobs

Every job with its planned month, hours left and flag. What you do: one row per job.

Jobs
Capacity

Step 2

Capacity

Chargeable hours, work planned and utilisation per person per month. What you do: nothing to enter.

Step 3

Team

Hours, days, chargeable target and charge-out rate. What you do: one row per person.

Team

Step 4

Who it is for

Made for people like you

  • Example – text
  • Accountancy and bookkeeping practices – Plan the January rush and the year-end peaks months ahead.
  • Payroll bureaus – Monthly and weekly runs planned against the team you have.
  • Other professional firms – Any deadline-driven workload planned against capacity.

Quick start

Up and running in minutes

  1. Example – text
  1. Settings – Practice name, first month to plan and the bank holidays.
  2. Team – Everyone doing client work, their hours, days and chargeable target.
  3. Leave – Days away each month.
  4. Job Types – Default hours and how many months before the deadline work starts.
  5. Jobs – Every job with client, type, who is preparing it and the deadline.
  6. Capacity and Dashboard – Spot red months early and move work.

Key features

  • Up to 15 team members, 1,100 jobs and 20 job types with default hours and start months.
  • Chargeable capacity by month after bank holidays and leave.
  • Utilisation per person per month, colour-coded, with the next three months on the dashboard.
  • Overdue, due soon and behind-plan flags and the next 15 deadlines.

What’s included

  • Dashboard – Capacity and deadlines at a glance
  • Settings – Practice, planning year, bank holidays
  • Team – Hours, targets and rates
  • Leave – Planned time away
  • Jobs – All client work
  • Capacity – Available, planned and utilisation
  • Job Types – Default hours and start months
  • Guide – How to use this workbook

How buying works

Your file is only released to your client portal once payment has cleared.

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Pay securely

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Download your file

Your file is ready in your client portal as soon as payment clears, and we email you your invoice with a link to the portal.

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