CATS hours against Activity Type

Hi,
I have one scenario, where,
1: The entered hours by employees to be captured against Activity type,and should be considered as Cost.
2: The final billed hours to be captured against the WBS elements as a revenue.
Example: Employee enters 5 hrs initially, which is approved as 4 hrs and sent for billing. The 5 hrs need to be captured against the activity type and 4 hrs to be captured as revenue.
My question is how to achieve this as CATS would capture and retain 4 hrs after approval. The CATS record only shows 4hrs after approval process and changes done.
So how this can be captured ?
Regards,
Ayesha

Hi,
Check if any field is there for Un-approved times ?
if you want to show the recroded time entries of employee, go for additional fields and configure there. check with ABAPer they can help you.
Best Regards.

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