Helga Martin works for a management consultancy and she spends the majority of her working time visiting different customers and giving them advice. She also works as an instructor training her customers’ employees.

Helga Martin usually records her working times for whole days with the same basic data and varying task components. She uses CATS for service providers. Helga Martin would make the following entries for the data entry period shown above:

When Helga Martin chooses a specific task type on the user interface, CATS for service providers displays the appropriate task components. This ensures that time recording is as straightforward as possible.

If Helga Martin were to use a user interface that is based on a traditional paper timesheet (for example, CATS classic, CATS regular or CATS notebook) to enter the tasks shown in the graphic, time recording would not be as straightforward.

This is because different task components (for example, hours, overtime, and kilometers) would need their own account assignment rows in these user interfaces. If Helga Martin were to use one of these user interfaces, she would have to make entries similar to these. In comparison to the other entries they are unclear.