Financial Plan Header Menus and Icons

This article explains the various menu options for viewing financial plans.

Icon Menu

Cost Types 

Select the Cost Types drop down menu to toggle to another cost type. When viewing any additional cost types or comparing cost types, the one selected in the Cost Types drop down menu is the one that remains editable (if it's an editable cost type).

NOTE: Each BU has its own list of cost types.

Additional Cost Types

Should you want to see two or more cost types side-by- side, select the cost type from the Additional Cost Types button. Note, your main cost type is the editable one, whereas the additional cost type(s) will be view only. You would go to that other cost type to update it if needed. Each cost type selected will show side-by-side in the Totals section and each time-phased period.

Dates

Change the Date Range of your view as needed. Select one of the preset date ranges such as Last Year, This Year, Next Year, or Next 5 Years.

Or, set a custom range, zoom to Months, Quarters, or Years, then select the time frame desired. Then, click the Apply button.

NOTE: If you want to use Fiscal Year, please select dates as 

Fiscal Year 2024: Start from OCT FY2023 to SEP FY2024

Show Hidden Cost Categories

To see which rows are hidden or add them back in to your financial plan, click Show Hidden Categories to toggle showing them or not. The rows that were hidden are greyed out.

o see which rows are hidden or add them back in to your financial plan, click Show Hidden Categories to toggle showing them or not. The rows that were hidden are greyed out.

Compare values across two cost types. Select Compare To, then two cost types to compare. You may only compare two cost types at a time.

The values for both cost types will show side-by-side. Note, your main cost type is the editable one, whereas the comparison cost type(s) will be view only. If you change a value in the main cost type, the colors will update according to the variance rules in real-time. You would go to that other comparison cost type to update it if needed. Each cost type selected will show side-by-side in the Totals section and each time-phased period. The carrot direction determines whether the greater than or less than will determine the logic for the color scale green or red. In the example above "Budget < Forecast," the forecast column will turn yellow then red when the forecast is greater than the budget cost type. Here is the formula for when the colors change:

The calculation currently is |value1-value2|/((value+value2)/2)*100

Colors are (based on the percentage variance):

Group By

To change the grouping select either No Group or Group By "_____". The additional choice Cost Category fields are available to select for grouping.

Copy Cost Type

You may copy costs to another cost type as well. For example, once the budget is finalized and approved, you may want to maintain the ongoing estimated costs in the Forecast cost type. Or, as the plan is active incurring costs, you can copy the original budget (Current) into the Actuals cost type (ASR / Jul Budget ...), then update as needed for each time period. You can copy from any one cost type to another.

Import Costs

When needed, costs can be imported from elsewhere in the system. For example, importing the committed resource plan hours into budgeted labor costs, or timesheet actual hours into the actual labor costs. Rather than manually entering labor costs, build the Resource Plan. Here the resource plan is filled out. Then back in the Financials page, import the hours, which are converted to costs with each role’s rate.

Export Costs

To export, first select the desired cost type, dates, and content to view. Then select your desired format from the Export menu.