Budget vs. Actual Hours by Project

A project manager uses several indicators and measures to monitor and manage a project.

The following reports can be generated:
  • Budget vs Actual Hours by Project
  • Budget vs Actual Hours by Project/ Activity
  • Budget vs Actual Hours by Project/ Activity/ Cost Component
  • Budget vs Actual Hours by Project/ Activity/ Control Code
Budget Vs Actual Hours by Project

The Budget vs Actual Hours report is used by the project manager to monitor the project by analyzing the planned hours against the actual hours of the project for the available budget.

To generate the report:
  1. Specify the range of data for which the report must be generated.
  2. Review the data.
  3. Click the project code in the Project field.
  4. Click Budget vs Actual Hours by Project / Activity to view the report for the planned hours against the actual hours at the activity level. [...]
  5. Click the activity code in the Activity field.
  6. Click Budget vs Actual Hours by Project / Activity / Cost Component or the Budget vs Actual Hours by Project / Activity / Control Code to view the report for the planned hours against the actual hours at the cost component or the control code level. [...]
  7. Review the data at the cost component or control code level for the activity.
  8. Review the budget status, the planned and the actual labor (project) hours, the balance hours and the percentage.
Note

At the cost component level and the control code level, the Budget vs actual hours report is displayed only for the cost type, Labor.