OK, so in CMAP, if you navigate from within a Project > Revenue Scheduling using the link in the blue sub navigation bar. We will first have a look at how to Forecast Revenue. You should now see a table like the one below:
The first thing I can see in my table is all of the months which I can forecast revenue for. These are the active cells which can be typed directly into. If you have any closed months, you may see values (or zeros) but these would be un-editable as the month has been closed and the Revenue has been recognized - more on this to come...
The months displayed in the tool will be driven by the start and end dates of the project.
If you click on the Actions Menu at the top right of the Scheduling panel, you have the option to either schedule revenue at the project level or at the stage level if you prefer. If you want to switch, just simply choose the option you need from the menu and the Grid will update.
On the right of the tool, I can see the total budget value for Fees and Externals and the Scheduled Value will update when I start to enter some values.
The variance column will show me if there are any differences between the budget amount and the scheduled value. You should always try and make sure the variance is 0.00 so you know that you have scheduled all of your revenue.
The cells will probably be blank when you first come into the tool and you can now either start to enter values straight into the cells or you can choose to populate them using one of the Auto Forecast options.
Using the Auto Forecast button at the top right, a pop up window will launch where you can choose how you would like to forecast the revenue for this project and you can choose do this differently for either the Fees, or the Externals. If you are scheduling revenue by stage, you can also decide to do this differently for each stage.
So select the stages / elements you want to forecast revenue for and then you can select from the dropdown options how to Forecast these and when you click OK, CMAP populates the grid according to your selection.
The Auto Forecast options you can select from are as follows:
Fees
Resourcing (Weighted by Time) - pulls resourcing information from the project's Resource Schedule and spreads the remaining revenue using the hours or days resourced to weight the values month on month
Resourcing (Weighted by Charge Rate) - pulls resourcing information (time multiplied by charge rate) from the project's Resource Schedule and spreads the remaining value using this resourcing information to weight the values month on month
Resourcing (Weighted by Cost Rate) - pulls resourcing information (time multiplied by cost rate) from the project's Resource Schedule and spreads the remaining value using this resourcing information to weight the values month on month
Resourcing (Actual) - pulls resourcing information from the project's Resource Schedule and forecasts the future months using the value of the resourcing entered
Even Spread - applies a flat spread of remaining revenue to the end date of the project.
Invoiced - uses the values entered into the CMAP invoicing schedule to forecast the revenue based on these.
Ignore - nothing will be forecast for the Fees value and any values already there will remain.
Externals
Even Spread - applies a flat spread of remaining Externals to the end date of the project.
Weighted - uses the stages start and end dates and their values to spread the Externals revenue based on which months the stages fall into.
Ignore - Nothing will be forecast for the Externals value and any values already there will remain.
Follow on using the link HERE to find out more about the Historic Options
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