Contents of the Hours Breakdown Screen

Use this screen to display unburdened costs charged or budgeted to the selected project, or variances of unburdened costs and budget charged to the project, by category (for example, Labor, Materials, Subcontracts, Travel, and so forth) for the last seven accounting periods, or if you are viewing future budgets, the next seven accounting periods.

Note:

You must provide information for all enabled fields in order for the report to run as expected, else an error message displays.

Contents

Field Description
Report Type

Select the type of report you want to display. Choose from the following options:

  • Actual: Select this option to display unburdened costs charged to the selected project for the last seven accounting periods.
  • Budget: Select this option to display unburdened costs budgeted to the selected project for the last seven accounting periods, or if you are viewing future budgets, for the next seven periods.
  • Variance: Select this option to display variances of unburdened costs and budget charged to the selected project for the last seven accounting periods.
  • What If: Select this option if you want to compare the actual cost of a project to a budget/EAC version, or to compare one budget/EAC version to another. If you select this option, the versions you want to compare display on the Hours Breakdown subtask.

If you select Budget or Variance, only budget/EAC versions that are marked as final on the Project Budgets / EACs screen are included in the report.

If you select Variance or What If, the Source column, which contains the budget type, version number, and version code of a budget/EAC, displays on the Raw Cost and All Periods subtasks.

Raw Cost

Select this check box to display combined raw cost breakdown details.

If you select this check box and the Report Type is Budget, the Source column, which contains the budget type, version number, and version code of a budget/EAC, displays on the Raw Cost subtask.

All Periods

Select this option to combine all levels of detail for viewing, printing, or exporting.

If you select this check box and the Report Type is Budget, the Source column, which contains the budget type, version number, and version code of a budget/EAC, displays on the All Periods subtask.

Depending on the selected report type, the following report parameters display:

Budget Type

If you selected the Budget or Variance report type, select one of the following from the drop-down list:

  • Budget: Select this option to display the latest budget information.
  • EAC: Select this option to display the latest EAC information.  
Note: EAC displays in the drop-down list only if an EAC exists for the project.
Timing

If you selected a report type of Budget or Variance, choose from the following budget timing options:

  • Past: Select Past to display seven accounting periods in the past.
  • Future: Select Future to display seven accounting periods in the future.
Project ID

Enter, or click to select, the project ID.

Comparisons

Field Description
Compare

Enter, or click to select, the atual cost or the budget/EAC of a project that you want to compare.

with

Enter, or click to select, the atual cost or the budget/EAC of a project that you want to compare.

Subtasks

After you select the Project ID and set other report options, click to populate the subtasks grid.

  • Raw Cost: Click this link to display raw cost breakdown details for Category, Account, Resource, and Source in a single table.
  • All Periods: Click this link to display unburdened costs, total budgeted unburdened costs, or variances of unburdened costs and budget charged to the project by cost category for all accounting periods.