BillQuick records two 'Hour' fields with each time entry, Hours and B-Hours. B-Hours (billable or billing hours) are billed to the client. By default, it takes up the same value as in the Hours field. The A-Hours or simply 'Hours' are actual hours worked by an employee on a task. It may be the hours you would base the payroll on.
A legacy feature in BillQuick and another way of writing up or down an individual time entry is to use A-Hour/B-Hour splits. Suppose a new employee is working on a project and his work isn't up to your usual quality levels and expectations. While you want to give credit to the employee for his services, you do not want to bill them to the client.
You may set a time entry as billable/non-billable by checking/unchecking the 'B' Billable option, respectively. Alternatively, you can keep the billable status (B) of a time entry but change the B-Hours and Amount to zero. The former practice is recommended. In both cases, the employee will still get paid for the work done (Hours) and the managers can keep track of job costing.
In regards to employee performance reports, the difference between the actual hours worked and billable hours does affect that. For example, this report compares the two for each employee.
Obviously, this difference between the A-Hours and B-Hours will affect the profit shown for that employee. In this report, the cost reflects 54 hours of work but the bill rate reflects 51 hours instead of 54. Had those 3 hours been billed, the employee would be credited with a larger profit ($2700 instead of $2400).