Labor Summary

Use the Labor Summary report to compare actual amounts to budget amounts, by labor code. This report displays a subset of labor data from the Project Summary report, grouped by labor code within each work breakdown structure level.

Select the Source of Budget Data

If you use the Planning application, use the options on the Budget tab to select the source of the project budget data for the report:

• Project Budget Worksheet in Accounting
• The plan mapped to the projects in Planning

Effective Dates

Billing includes the option to specify effective dates for billing rates. You can establish a schedule of rates at which employee labor is billed throughout the course of a project.

If a project's billing rate is determined by a billing labor rate table, the date of the transaction affects the billing rate. This applies to transactions entered through Transaction Entry, using a Billing Labor Insert, or using a Billing Labor Transfer. DPS compares the transaction date with the effective dates in the billing labor rate table to determine which billing rate to use to calculate the billing amount.

Multiple Currencies

If you use multiple currencies, a report may display amounts in different currencies. If the report contains a total for a column that contains mixed currencies, that total displays as ####, rather than as an actual amount. If you generate a report with a mix of currencies, you can include currency symbols or codes to identify the currency for each amount.

For more direct comparison of amounts, you can select a presentation currency for the report so that all amounts display in a single currency. To do that, select Presentation Currency in Report In on the General tab of the Options dialog box and specify the currency and the date for determining exchange rates.

Options Dialog Box

Use the Options dialog box to specify reporting options for a report. Depending on the report, the dialog box contains one or more of the following tabs: General, Sorting/Grouping, Columns, Budget, Metrics, User Defined Sections, Activity, Drill Down, Layout, and Graph.