Tracking Budgets and Time Spent Without a Separate Finance Tool

An amount column stores currency values with proper formatting. Track project budgets, vendor costs, or invoice amounts directly on the relevant record. Pair with a formula column to calculate totals, margins, or variance from a planned budget. The numbers live where the work lives.

Duration columns track time in hours and minutes, useful for logging effort on tasks, support tickets, or client work. Combined with an amount column and a formula, you can calculate billable totals per record without switching to a timesheet tool. This is especially useful for service-based businesses billing by the hour.

Filter records by date range and sort by amount to see your highest-cost items for a given period. This doesn't replace accounting software, but it gives operations managers a fast view of where money is going without waiting for a finance report. For smaller teams, it may be all the financial visibility you need.