Project Budget Summary

This document was created to share the information about the project-specific summary of the CURVC Project Budget add-ons.


Table of Contents


Summary

Edit Project

Before you begin

To edit project budget, you must have the following permissions:

  • Project budget administrator
  • Project budget manager

You can set permissions in the following guides:


Edit Project Summary

In the Edit Project, you can set:

  • Disable Project Budget
    Disable the Project Budget setting.
  • Setting Start and End Date for Project
    Sets the start and end dates for the Project.
  • Planned labor costs
    Enter the planned labor cost.
  • Planned expenses
    Enter overhead costs other than the planned labor cost.


For the Edit Project, follow these steps:

  1. Go to a specific project.
  2. Select the left Budget menu.
  3. On the Summary tab, select Edit Project at the top.
  4. When the Edit Project window appears, modify the values.
  5. After editing, click Update button.


The following figure shows an example of the Edit Project.

Figure. Edit Project


Project Period

The project duration simply indicates the start and end dates of the project. This period does not affect your budget.


Planned vs. Executed

Planned vs. Executed represents the budget executed against the planned budget. Here is a description of the left row:

  • Labor costs
    Represents the sum of individual hourly wages for Worklog.
  • Expenses
    Represents a sum for a separate Expense other than Worklog.
  • Total
    It represents the sum of labor cost and Expense.



The description of the right entry is as follows:

  • Planned budget
    Represents a planned budget.
  • Execute budget
    Represents the budget that has been executed so far.
  • Remaining budget
    Represents the total budget remaining.


The following figure shows Period, Planned, and Executed in the Summary.

Figure. Summary


Budget dashboard

The Budget dashboard shows a variety of charts of budget execution. Currently supported charts are:

  • Budget trends
    Represents a cumulative chart of monthly budget execution.
  • Monthly trends
    Represents Monthly Executed Labor costs and Expenses.
  • Labor costs by type
    Displays the labor costs for each issue type.
  • Expenses by type
    Expense Indicates cost spent per type.


The following figure shows an example of the Budget dashboard.

Figure. Dashboard