The need for an automated system of employee and contractual time accounting is necessary for any business to remain competitive in today's modern business environment. Customers of businesses do not trust companies that provide erroneous billing statements or account summaries. Employee accountability while working in customer arenas is difficult to maintain with the traditional paper time cards. Customers who see deficiencies in customer billing are prone to take their business elsewhere. <Tab/&…showed first 75 words of 268 total…

…showed last 75 words of 268 total…decrease many administrative costs as well as increasing the reliability of data and daily reporting. <Tab/>Applications considered must meet basic reliability and ease of administration and access requirements, as well as the ability to cross reference employee identification with specific contractual billing numbers in order to facilitate the entire billing process. The entire time attendance system should be streamlined to save time and duplicate efforts while allowing immediate error detection.