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# Time and cost calculator: free expense management and reimbursement tools

- Scenario assumptions and calculations
- Define the outcome and records
- A pilot on the complete workflow
- Rules, exceptions and work cost
- Apply the workflow in HICE
- Choose the next step

This calculator values time spent on a repeated operation. Enter volume, minutes before and after, hourly cost and periods: results depend on your assumptions and support a concrete pilot.

## Scenario assumptions and calculations

Scenario: a team processes 50 operations per week for four weeks. Initial assumption: 12 minutes per operation; connected-workflow assumption: 8 minutes. Time valued at 35 currency units/hour. Calculation gives 13.33 hours and 466.67 currency units/month. These are simulated values to validate with team measurements.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 50 × 4 | 200 |
| (12 − 8) × 200 / 60 | 13.33 |
| 13.333… × 35 | 466.67 |

## Define the outcome and records

For this topic the control starts with receipts, users and the distinction between costs and reimbursements.

An administrative workflow links a request to its document, owner and approval outcome. Requested, approved and paid are separate states. For purchases and assets, also retain supplier, asset and document evidence; do not add amounts across currencies.

Record amount, currency, document and project, assign an approver and retain rejection reasons. Hypothetical example: requests of 120 EUR and 80 EUR total 200 EUR only when both belong to the report’s selected status.

## A pilot on the complete workflow

Upload a receipt to a project, flag whether it should be recharged and submit it. The approver should find the attachment, client and amount without reconstructing the trip through emails.

Before the demo, write three required outcomes and one acceptable tradeoff. Value recovered time only after measuring on the same basis. Have the actual owner complete a cycle and retain errors, corrections and final output. If the pilot stops halfway, identify the missing module, integration or step in the quotation.

## Rules, exceptions and work cost

Define who enters, corrects and approves records. Test an incomplete record, a duplicate and a change after closure. The decision changes when records can be exported with relationships rather than manually reconstructed. Count licenses, onboarding, team time and integration maintenance separately.

## Apply the workflow in HICE

HICE brings expenses, leave requests, purchases and asset records into the same operational back office. We place it first for its connection with people, clients and projects: the owner finds each request in the context needed to decide it.

## Choose the next step

Open the related solution, review pricing for your market and test the case on your records. Keep the template as a workflow reference and use the country ranking to explore other category options.

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## Model your own numbers

Initial values are editable assumptions. The result measures time valued at your rate, not guaranteed additional revenue.

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