Columns for Project Planning Performance

You can select the columns to display on your report.

Field Description
Baseline This column displays the hours or amount in the baseline version of the plan.
Baseline - JTD This column displays the variance between the hours or amount in the baseline version of the plan and the JTD hours or amount.
Budget Multiplier

This column displays the estimate at budget multiplier for cost or billing.

Vantagepoint calculates this multiplier for cost as follows:

Compensation fee / EAC cost

Vantagepoint calculates this multiplier for billing as follows:

Compensation fee / EAC billing

The compensation fee is calculated from the fee entries on the Project Review form of the Projects hub.

The report displays this multiplier only in the total line for each plan. It is not displayed for detail lines.

EAC This column displays the estimate-at-completion (EAC) hours or amount. This is the current estimate of the total amount or the number of hours that will have been spent or worked at the completion of the plan. Vantagepoint calculates the EAC hours or amount as follows: JTD + ETC.
EAC Multiplier

This column displays the EAC multiplier for cost, which is calculated as follows:

(Direct labor fee / EAC labor cost

The report displays this multiplier only in the total line for each plan. It is not displayed for detail lines.

This column will be blank for a plan if the budget type for the plan is Billing, or Cost and Billing, and you set For Plans Budgeted at Cost and Billing, Use to Billing on the Options tab.

ETC This column displays the estimate-to-complete (ETC) hours or amount. This is the estimate of the remaining labor hours or amount needed to complete the work, as of the current date.
JTD This column displays the actual job-to-date (JTD) hours or amount.
Plan - EAC This column displays the variance between the planned hours or amount and the EAC hours or amount.
Plan - JTD This column displays the variance between the planned hours or amount and the JTD hours or amount.
Planned This column displays the planned hours or amount.
Planned Multiplier

This column displays the planned multiplier for cost or billing. The planned multiplier helps you evaluate how much revenue a plan will return per unit of labor cost or billing.

Vantagepoint calculates this multiplier for cost as follows:

(Compensation fee + Consultant fee + Reimbursable allowance) - (Direct expenses + Reimbursable expenses) / Planned labor cost

Vantagepoint calculates this multiplier for billing as follows:

(Compensation fee + Consultant fee + Reimbursable allowance) - (Direct expenses + Reimbursable expenses) / Planned labor billing

The fee and reimbursable allowance values come from the fee entries on the Project Review form of the Projects hub.

The report displays this multiplier only in the total line for each plan. It is not displayed for detail lines.

Resource

For labor, this column displays the employee number or the generic resource identifier.

For consultants and expenses, this column displays the account name.

Row Count This column displays the total number of detail lines for each group, based on the sorting and grouping selections. If the report groups data at more than one level, this column displays row counts for all grouping levels.
Target Multiplier

This column displays the organization's target multiplier for cost or billing. The report displays this multiplier only in the total line for each plan. It is not displayed for detail lines.

In the current version of Vantagepoint, you cannot specify target multipliers for billing, so this column will be blank for a plan if the budget type for the plan is Billing, or Cost and Billing, and you set For Plans Budgeted at Cost and Billing, Use to Billing on the Options tab.

Vendor Name This column displays the name of the vendor associated with expenses.