Project Cost and Forecast

Abstract:

Costing and forecasting on a project is essential for understanding the project financials, a true and accurate Project Cost and Forecast Report is critical for the company to predict company financial outlook and manage budget for the ongoing and upcoming fiscal year. This page explains the idea and reason behind the costing and forecasting on projects. For general guide-lines on How-To of the Project Cost and Forecast in Viewpoint Job Cost: Cost Projection, navigate to here.

Report:

The project cost and forecast (PCF) report is a document that contains confidential information of the project's financial status. The PCF report is

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Progress Tracking and Entering

Project cost and forecasting relies on accurate field record tracking. Although this module will function without complete this, it is still recommended to do the quantity tracking as a good habit. The quantity tracking module can be found in Job Cost Section called "JC Progress Entry".

Once all the progress has been entered, go to progress batch, and commit this batch to the month of which the work was completed.

Reviewing Project Cost and Forecast to End of Project

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• for the last month, ie, report in august then batch should be in July

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Demonstrate the actual vs remaining, this is tied with the field progress tracking we did previously. Try change the remaining units, or hours, or cost directly. or change the over/under.

The Project Cost and Forecast module can be found under Job Cost section, it is called "JC Cost Projection".

• If there is no open batches exist, you can create a new batch by select "Create a new batch", then select the Month of the Cost Occurred, then click "OK".
• If there is open batch you previously, select the batch, and click "Ok".

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After doing this the window for Project Cost and Forecast will appear. For new batch, you will need to input the project number and select a date. This date determines the cut off date for the cost, typically you can set it to the last work day of the month your batch is opened at. The window will have the layout as below. the columns order on your screw might be different from what's shown here. insert <pic>