Allocated Hours vs. Budgeted Hours

The Allocated column displays the sum of all of the hours for each resource who has been allocated—that is, booked—on the task. Allocations are also called bookings.

Bookings on a subassignment are summed on the resource category. For example, if you have allocated 290 hours for Ben Bratt and 120 hours for Taylor Branning as consultants on the project, the sum of their allocations is displayed as 410 hours.

The numbers in the Allocated column are in turn summed on the top line.

The 410 hours on Consultant are only included once in the sum.

In Maconomy, each budget line has a Quantity that shows the budgeted hours. The Quantity is duplicated in the top line as Budget.

When you book the resources on the project, you are planning hours of the budgeted hours.

The Budgeting Assistant makes it easy to compare the allocated hours with the budgeted hours:

• The Budget field shows the number of hours that have been budgeted for the task.
• The Allocated field shows the number of hours that have been allocated for the task.
• The Var (variance) field shows the difference between the budgeted hours and the allocated hours.

The variance is color-coded: green means that there are still hours available in the budget, and red means that the budget has been exceeded.