Labor Resource Actuals

Use the Labor Resource Actuals report to review actual labor hours for projects, to analyze past performance, to develop more accurate estimates for upcoming plans/opportunities, or to improve performance on similar projects in the future.

Access to Labor Cost Information

The Labor Cost Rates/Amounts option on the Accounting tab of the Roles form (Configuration > Security > Roles) determines your access to actual labor cost rates and amounts when you preview or print Planning reports. In some cases, it also determines your access to planned labor costs.

Utilization Alerts

To use the report to identify deviations from the expected working hours for employees, select Alerts in Format on the General tab of the Options dialog box and enter a percentage in Standard Utility Percentage.

The report displays OVER for a period for employees whose hours exceed the expected hours by more than the percentage in Standard Utility Percentage. It displays UNDER for a period for employees whose hours are less than the expected hours by more than the percentage in Standard Utility Percentage. (The expected hours are specified in Hours/Day on the Personal tab of the Employee Info Center.)

Sort and Group by Custom Fields

You can sort and group information on this report by custom fields for the project in the time records.

Non-Work Days

When it calculates a plan's hours, cost amounts, or billing amounts, Vision takes into consideration the company's non-work days specified on the Holiday Configuration form (Configuration > General > Holiday Calendar).

When it prorates values and calculates standard hours, Vision takes into consideration the non-work days specified on the Holiday Configuration form for the company that was active when the plan was created.

If hours or amounts are posted to a span of non-work days or holidays and those non-work days fall completely within the start and end dates of a period column on the report, they are included on the report for that period. If the non-work days do not completely fall within a period column on the report (for example, if they fall within more than one report period), the proration process may exclude them from the report.

Multicompany

If your firm uses the Multicompany feature and you select Employee in Use Company from on the General tab of the Options dialog box, Vision prorates values and calculates standard hours based on the holidays and non-working days set up for the company associated with the organization to which the employee is assigned. If you select Project in Use Company from, Vision prorates values and calculates standard hours based on the holidays and non-working days set up for the company associated with the organization to which the project is assigned.

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.