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Financial Plan vs. Actual Review

The Financial Plan vs. Actual Review portlet is a complete listing of all the documents that have been uploaded to the project. The portlet shows planned and actual costs and benefits and the variance between them. The information is available at each cost plan detail level in a hierarchical display.

The first level is the Investment, the second level is the Cost Plan and Benefit Plan, and the third level and down are the detail rows on the cost and benefit plans.

The following columns display on this portlet:

Investment/Plan Detail

Displays the name of the investment and the name of the cost and benefit plan. Click the investment name to open the project properties page.

Planned

Displays the planned cost or planned benefit number depending on the row.

Actual

Displays the actual cost or actual benefit number depending on the row.

Variance

The difference between Planned minus Actual. For costs, a negative number more spending than planned. For a positive number, less money spent than planned. For benefits, a negative number signals the revenues were greater than anticipated. If there is a positive number, the revenues were less than anticipated.

The following portlet filters are available:

Project

Click the browse icon to filter by project.

Stage

Select a project stage from the drop-down list.

Period Type

Select a period type from the drop-down list.

Period Start

Select the date based on the start date for the time period.

Period End

Select the date based on the end date for the time period.