Guide to reporting time in the financial information system at ANL

Operation of a new system is described with which the full cost recovery service centers of the Laboratory report employee time, whether the time is charged to another organization or to an internal function. Most service centers of the Laboratory currently report employee time to the Financial Information System (FIS) via time cards or timesheets, which are routed to the Data Entry group of the Administrative Data Processing Operations, Building 201, where the time records are keyed. With this new system, the service center assumes primary reponsibility for the keying and management of time charges. The system provides these benefits to the service center: a choice of processing period and month-end boundary, printed timesheets with history of charges by employee, prevalidation of charges, thus fewer rejected charges, and computer-readable file of current and prior charges for analysis. The Controller's Office plans to implement the time reporting system on a division-by-division basis until most service centers assume responsibility for their time charges.