7.13.4. Tracking Project Financials

Every project has a financial section. You can disable this section if you do not want to track your project's financial information. Read Controlling project features (Section 7.8) for more information.

  1. Select a project

  2. From the sub menu bar click FinancialsTime, Expense & Cost Summary

Time, Expense & Labor Cost Summary

Figure 7.10. Time, Expense & Labor Cost Summary


On the financials page the Time, Expense & Labor Cost Summary has the following sections:

Budget. The task budget.

Time (Hours). 

Assigned

Total time allocated for the task in hours (calculated from the total user allocations for the task)

Actual

The actual time spent on the task. Calculated from approved time sheets.

Projected

The application calculates the hours needed to complete the task based on task percent complete and approved time entries.

Billable

Billable time entries (approved) in hours.

If the sum of the Actual hours and the Projected hours exceed the Assigned hours, it means your task will be off schedule and you will need to take corrective action.

Time ($)/Expense($). 

Billable

The monetary value of billable time entries and expenses that are approved. Read Project Billing (Section 7.13.2) for more information.

Non-Billable

The monetary value of non-billable time entries and expenses that are approved.

Cost($). 

Total

The total cost of the task. Cost of a task is the sum of labor cost, expenses, fixed cost and rolled-up costs. Cost of the project is the sum of labor costs and approved and costable expenses for its tasks. Cost is calculated from approved and costable time entries and expenses.

Labor

The total of labor costs for all costable time entries filled for this task. Labor cost for a time entry = User Cost Rate x Hours Worked

Projected

The system calculates the cost to complete the rest of the task based on the percent complete of the task and the accrued cost to date. If the project cost exceeds task budget then it means this task needs attention.