Project Earnings General Tab

Use the General tab to select report options for the Project Earnings report and to save sets of options for reuse.

Contents

Field Description
Report Name You can change the default report name.
Create Activity To create activities in the Activity Manager when you generate the report, select this check box. DPS displays the Activity dialog box so that you can enter information about the activity, including its type (email, phone call, meeting, touchpoint, and so on), primary contact, and date/time. DPS creates an activity for each record included on the report.

Base Rollup

Field Description
Project Base Rollup Use this option to summarize information for projects that use a standard numbering system. For example, if the first five characters of your project number represent a master contract, you can summarize (roll up) information for all projects that have a common master contract number. The Project Base Rollup slider box displays the number of characters in your project numbers. For example, if you use a 10-digit project number, the slider box displays 1234567890. A project number can also include up to two delimiters (for example, 12-345.67890).
  • A phase total is the total of all occurrences of that phase across the base project.
  • A task total is the total of all occurrences of that task across the base project.

To roll up project numbers, drag a slider to cover the characters that you want rolled up. You can drag a slider from the left side of the slider box, the right side, or both sides.

Subtotal or Summarize on Base Number If you set a project base rollup, use this field to select how you want DPS to display the project data:
  • Subtotal on Base Number: Select this option to display a group header at the beginning of each group of projects that matches the base rollup and then list each project in full detail. After the last project in the group, the report displays a group total.
  • Summarize on Base Number: Select this option to display totals for each group but no project detail.
Phase Base Rollup Use this option to summarize report information for phases that use a standard numbering system. The Phase Base Rollup slider box displays the number of characters in your firm’s phase numbers. For example, if you use a 7-digit phase number, the slider box displays 1234567. A phase number can also include one delimiter (for example, 12345.12).

You can roll up the base phase and still display information by task. When you do, a task total is the total of all occurrences of that task across the base project. For example, the total for Task 00001 is the total of all Task 00001s in the base project.

To display only phases and tasks, use the Project Base Rollup slider to cover the project number completely.

To roll up phase numbers, drag a slider to cover the characters that you want rolled up. You can drag a slider from the left side of the slider box, the right side, or both sides.

Task Base Rollup Use this option to summarize information at the task level for tasks that use a standard numbering system. This option is only available if you use tasks. The Task Base Rollup slider box displays the number of characters in your firm’s task numbers. For example, if you use a 3-digit task number, the slider box displays 123.

This option works in the same way as the project and phase rollup options. For example, if the first two characters of your task number represent a department, you can roll up information for all tasks that have the same department number.

To show only tasks, use the Project Base Rollup and Phase Base Rollup sliders to cover the project number and phase number completely.

To roll up task numbers, drag a slider to cover the characters that you want rolled up. You can drag a slider from the left side of the slider box, the right side, or both sides.

Include

Use these options to determine the amounts and periods that will display.

Field Description
Final Totals Select this check box to include a line at the end of the report that displays totals for all amount columns.
Overhead

Select this check box to include overhead amounts.

If you use multiple currencies and select Cost in Report at and select Billing Currency in Report in, Print Overhead and Estimate Overhead are disabled.

Estimate Overhead

If you generate a report showing overhead but you have not yet allocated overhead for the current period, select this check box to use estimated overhead amounts. If you select this check box, Estimate Overhead displays at the top of the report.

If you use multiple currencies and select Cost in Report at and select Billing Currency in Report in, Print Overhead and Estimate Overhead are disabled.

Unposted Labor Select this check box to include unposted timesheet information on the report. If you select this check box, DPS includes the following timesheet data:
  • All timesheet data in unposted transaction entry files.
  • All timesheets that are in progress or submitted, but not posted.

The report displays the code u next to unposted time.

DPS uses extensions for cost and billing rates to calculate unposted labor amounts when timesheets are saved.

Committed Purchase Order Expenses

Select this option to include as an expense any amounts committed to approved orders. If you include committed expenses, you can see major upcoming costs that will affect a project’s bottom line.

If you select this option and also select Current in Activity Period on the Activity tab, committed PO expenses are included whether or not the expense activity occurred in the current accounting period.

Budget Balance when No Budget Select this check box to display the difference between the budget and project-to-date billing or cost amounts even if there is no budgeted amount. The result is a negative amount unless the project-to-date amount is also zero or is a negative amount.
Use Summary Table Select this option to generate the report from pre-processed data in the project summary table, rather than directly from the standard database tables. In most cases, DPS generates the report much faster if you select this option.

Calculations performed for this report place high demands on processor resources. In some cases, it can take a long time to generate the report for large databases. To minimize the time it takes to generate the report, first run the Refresh Project Summary Table utility to calculate and store the data for this report in a summary table. Then, before you generate the report, select the Use Summary Table option.

If the Refresh Project Summary Table utility has never been run, this option is not available. In that case, DPS displays a note next to the option:

Use Summary Table (Refresh under Advanced Utilities)

After you run the utility the first time, DPS makes the Use Summary Table option available and displays the most recent date and time that the utility was run:

Use Summary Table (Updated: 4/5/21 12:09PM)

The Refresh Project Summary Table utility calculates and saves project summary information for regular projects only.

Recommendation: Schedule the Refresh Project Summary Table utility to run each night, so that each day the data for reports are current as of the night before for all DPS users.

Period Range (For Use with Custom Columns)

Use these fields to specify a range of periods to be used by the custom columns selected on the Columns tab. This range of periods will only impact the custom columns. DPS defaults to the current period for the period range.

When you specify a custom range, the Period Range option is enabled as one of the Activity Period options on the Activity Tab. Select this option to apply the custom time frame to the report and to filter the report to only include projects, phases, or tasks with activity in that period range.

Report at Select one of the following rate options:
  • Cost: Select this option to display monetary amounts at cost rates.
  • Burden: Select this option to include overhead amounts in labor cost amounts. This option is only available if the Enable Reporting at Burdened Rates option is selected in Settings > Accounting > Labor Options.
Contract Selection Use these options to specify criteria for report selection.
Status To select records for the report based on contract status, use the Contract Status lookup to select one or more status settings, such as Approved & Signed, Negotiation, Pending, Rejected, or Sent for Signature.
Type To select records for the report based on contract type, use the Contract Type lookup to select one or more types, such as Additional Services, Change Order, Letter of Agreement, or Original.
Exclude Contracts Not Included in Fees This report option is available if you select the Synchronize Fees from Contract to Project option on the General tab of the Accounting System Settings form (Settings > Advanced Accounting > System).

Select this report option to exclude contracts that do not have the Include in Fees option selected.

Report Cost in

Select the type of currency in which cost amounts display:

  • Project Currency
  • Billing Currency
  • Project's Functional Currency
  • Presentation Currency: Use the Presentation Currency and Exchange Rate as of options to specify the currency and the date to use in calculating exchange rates.

Billing Currency is only available if Use billing currency not Project currency is selected on the Reporting tab of the Accounting System Settings form.

Report Billing in

Select the type of currency in which billing amounts display:

  • Billing Currency: The currency is based on the setting for the Use Billing Currency not Project Currency option in Labor Options Settings. When that option is selected, the monetary amounts are displayed in the project's billing currency. When that option is not selected, the amounts are displayed in the project currency.
  • Presentation Currency: Use a single currency to display all monetary amounts. Use the Presentation Currency and Exchange Rate as of fields to specify the currency and the date to use to determine exchange rates.
Report AR & Fees in

Select the type of currency in which AR & Fees amounts display:

  • Billing Currency: The currency is based on the setting for the Use Billing Currency not Project Currency option in Labor Options Settings. When that option is selected, the monetary amounts are displayed in the project's billing currency. When that option is not selected, the amounts are displayed in the project currency.
  • Presentation Currency: Use a single currency to display all monetary amounts. Use the Presentation Currency and Exchange Rate as of fields to specify the currency and the date to use to determine exchange rates.
Presentation Currency

If you select Presentation Currency in Report Cost in or in Report Billing in, select the currency in which you want the report to display monetary amounts. The drop-down list includes all currencies enabled for use by your enterprise.

All amounts on the report display in the single currency that you specify, even though projects might not share a common project currency, billing currency, or functional currency. The date that you specify in Exchange Rate as of determines the exchange rates used to calculate the amounts.

Exchange Rate as of If you select Presentation Currency in Report Cost in or in Report Billing in, specify the date that determines the exchange rates to use to calculate the presentation currency amounts from other currency amounts.