The Project Progress report enables you to compare labor and expense budgets with actual performance and shows you where to take action to avoid overruns. You can generate this report in many different ways. For example, you can select different levels of detail, use cost rates or billing rates, and display labor hours only, or both labor hours and monetary amounts.
You can use the Project Progress report to do the following:
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Verify that a project is on target and within budget.
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Pinpoint any trouble areas.
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Diagnose situations that put the project over budget, so you can avoid overruns.
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Confirm the accuracy and completeness of current period labor and expense charges.
Labor Section
At the lowest work breakdown structure (WBS) level, the report displays labor hours and amounts by labor code level or by employee within labor code level. You choose how many labor code levels to show. If you select either
Current Detail or
JTD Detail in
Labor Detail on the Time & Expense tab, the report displays individual labor transactions.
Below each labor section, the report displays the total overhead allocated.
Expense Sections
At the lowest WBS level, the report groups expense information by type of expense and by expense account. You select the level of detail: expense type totals only, account totals only, individual transactions for the current period, or individual transactions for the job to date.
Project Information and Financial Analysis Sections
In addition to the labor and expense information, you can include the following:
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Selected information from the Project Info Center (principal, project manager, client, and so on) for each WBS level.
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User-defined fields.
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A Financial Analysis section for each WBS level. Those sections display the following for the current period, the year to date, and the job to date:
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Fees billed, consultant billed, reimbursable billed, other billed, total billed, revenue, and spent amounts.
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The difference between spent and revenue. This is labeled
Profit if you report at cost rates and
Variance if you report at billing rates.
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Profit percentage, if you report at cost rates, or the variance percentage, if you report at billing rates. This percentage is the profit or variance divided by revenue.
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Expected gross compensation.
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Current cash received for the job to date.
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Total accounts receivable and unbilled amounts for the project to date. These amounts include retainage amounts, if applied.
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Effective multiplier, if you report at cost rates, or realization ratio, if you report at billing rates.
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Revenue method.
Symbols Used on the Report
An asterisk (*) to the left of a detail line indicates the transaction was transferred from another project.
A small
u indicates an unbilled transaction.
Select the Source of Budget Data
If your firm uses the Vision Planning application, use the options on the Budget tab to select the source of the project budget data for the report:
Effective Dates
Vision 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. Vision 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.
Expanding and Collapsing Report Groups
If you are using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and if, on the Options tab of the Options dialog box for this report, you select
Print Financial Analysis and you also enable the option to collapse and expand a report group, Vision disables the expand/collapse option for report groups when you generate the report with this set of options. This is necessary because a defect in Microsoft software would cause the report to fail otherwise.