View Explanation of Variance for a Control Account or Work Package

The Cost Analysis view enables you to view an Explanation of Variance (EoV) for a specific control account or work package.

Display an EoV from the Cost Analysis Form

To display an EoV from the Cost Analysis form for a control account or work package, an EoV must first be created on the Explanation of Variance form for that particular control account or work package.

Approvers

If you are the Approver of the progress entry, you can also view the Explanation of Variance for a control account or work package from the Approve Cost Progress form.  If you are the Assignee, you can also view the Explanation of Variance from the Enter Cost Progress form.

To view Explanation of Variance for a control account or work package, complete the following steps:

  1. Display the Cost Analysis view.

  2. In the Cost Analysis grid, select the control account or work package for which you want to display the EoV.

  3. On the General tab of the Cost Analysis form, click the link to the control account or work package in the Control Account field or Work Package field. The name of this field varies depending on whether you selected a control account or work package in the Cost Analysis grid.

  4. The Explanation of Variance form for the selected control account or work package displays.

What do you want to do?

Find control accounts or work packages that are not progressing according to plan

View time phased resource data for a control account or work package

Enter cost progress

Set up project-level thresholds


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