Use the project enquiries and workspaces to investigate and find information about your projects. You can see details about your budgets, costs, revenue and project transactions.
Note: The enquiries and reports calculate period budgets differently, depending on how you have entered your budgets in your project hierarchy.
For the enquiries you can use the criteria options to filter the information displayed in a project enquiry. The criteria displayed will depend on the enquiry you are using.
You can amend workspaces to display data to suit your business processes or current task. You can use the filter options and column selector to choose the data that is displayed.
You can use the Workspace Designer to change the content or to create your own workspaces. You can add or remove content and change the available actions, the reports, the columns and how they are displayed, the default filters used for the toolbar filter and so on.
In the desktop application, workspaces can be opened from the menu or from the drop-down list.
In the web browser, workspaces are opened from the drop-down list.
To open from the drop-down list, click the arrow next to the workspace title to open another workspace .
You cannot display archived projects on the project enquiries. To view the details of an archived project you can either use the archived projects reports, archived projects enquiry, or archived projects workspace.
The following enquiries and workspaces are available in Project Accounting:
Open: Workspaces drop-down list.
Use this to see a list of all your projects.
You can:
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Projects> View Project.
Use this to view the structure and details and single projects.
Select the project by its Code or Title. The project's structure and details are displayed.
Note: To hide or show the project structure, click Hide Project Structure or Show Project Structure.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Projects > View Project Status.
Use the View Project Status enquiry to display the status of items or levels in a project.
Select the project by its Code or Title. The project's structure appears. You can view the status and percentage complete for each level and item in the structure.
Note: Any changes that you make to the status or percentage complete are recorded in a history log. The details of each change are recorded along with the date and the name of the user.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Projects.
Use this see details of your projects along with it's structure and related transactions.
You can:
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Projects > Archived Projects.
This provides details of your archived projects along with the structure and related transactions.
You can:
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Projects > Project Position.
This provides information about the projects where you are specified as the Project Owner.
You can:
Use this see the total profits of your projects. This displays the total revenue, costs and profits for the selected projects.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Analysis > Profitability Analysis.
To filter the information displayed in the enquiry, use the criteria to select the information that you want to show.
The following criteria are specific to this enquiry:
Click OK. The project enquiry appears.
The enquiry displays your project items, with group categories for revenues, prime costs and overheads.To display items and levels in the structure, click the + and - signs, or click Expand All and Collapse All.
Use this to see the breakdown of revenue, costs and profit per project.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Analysis > Profitability Breakdown.
To filter the information displayed in the enquiry, use the criteria to select the information that you want to show.
The following criteria are specific to this enquiry:
Use this to inspect your projects' actual, committed and total cost values, and compare them against the budget figures.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries> Analysis > Cost Analysis.
Click OK.
The enquiry window appears. It displays your actual costs, committed costs, total costs, cost budgets and the budget variance.
Use the Revenue Analysis enquiry to inspect your projects' actual, potential and total revenue values, and compare them against the budget figures.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Analysis > Revenue Analysis.
To filter the information displayed in the enquiry, use the criteria to select the information that you want to show.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Analysis > Project Profitability.
This provides information about costs, revenue and net profit for your projects.
You can:
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Analysis > Net Profit By Period.
This provides information about the net profit for your projects, split over each period for the current financial year.
You can:
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Analysis > Actual Cost By Period.
This provides information about the actual costs for your projects, split over each period in the current financial year.
You can:
Use the Cost Transactions enquiry to inspect your project cost transactions. You can view all the details, such as the date, cost type (timesheet or purchase order), reference number, source (supplier account or resource), project and project item, details (narrative), cost quantity, cost and charge rates, total cost, bill value, and transaction URN.
You can set the reports to show only fully billed transactions or outstanding transactions.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Transactions > Cost Transactions.
By default, all cost transactions are displayed. To filter the information displayed in the enquiry, use the criteria to select the information that you want to show.
Use this to inspect all your project revenue transactions. You can view all your revenue details, such as the date, revenue type (e.g. sales invoice or order), reference number, source (e.g. customer account), project and project item, details (narrative), charge quantity and revenue rate, net revenue, and transaction URN.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Transactions > Revenue Transactions.
Use the Nominal Transactions enquiry to display all the cost and revenue nominal transactions for your projects.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Transactions > Nominal Transactions.
Use this to inspect the net profit and other details of your project transactions. You can view the transaction details, such as the date, transaction type, reference number, source (e.g. supplier account or resource), and net profit.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Transactions> Profitability Transactions.
To filter the information displayed in the enquiry, use the criteria to select the information that you want to show.
The following criteria are specific to this enquiry:
Use the Billing Analysis enquiry to inspect all your billable project transactions. You can view your project code and title, net value billed, tax value billed, gross value billed, original and outstanding values to bill, last billed date, total cost, last cost date, profit.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Billing > Billing Analysis.
To filter the information displayed in the enquiry, use the criteria to select the information that you want to show.
The following criteria are specific to this enquiry:
Use the Billing Summary enquiry to display information about all your project bills. You can view your project bill items, bill status, related invoice or credit note reference, bill date, customer account reference and name, and the net, tax and gross values.
The Billing Summary enquiry includes transactions from both live and archived projects. This is to make sure that all transactions included on a bill are displayed.
Open: Project Accounting > Project Enquiries > Billing > Billing Summary.
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