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Because they are usually produced after the pay run, from data assembled for payroll. By the time a pattern is visible, it has been paid.
Reporting on hours planned, worked, corrected and approved, cut by person, team, site or period.
Reports read attendance as it is recorded rather than after approval, so a trend appears while the month is still running.
A team is consistently thirty minutes over on every shift. That shows in week two as a pattern rather than in the pay run as a total.
It does not explain why a pattern exists. Persistent overtime is a staffing question, and the report is where it becomes visible rather than where it is answered.
The same records become the payroll line and project cost, so the report and the invoice cannot disagree about a week's hours.
Yes, and by team, cost centre or reporting line.
They can, marked as such — the difference is usually the interesting part.
Yes. Record scopes apply to reports as they do everywhere else.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.