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Associate Contracts to Earned Value Reporting Periods

The earned value reporting period defines the frequency and the interval for the Update Earned Value History - Contracts job. The information helps in recording the historical earned value snapshots of performance and save snapshot in the earned value history table. When using earned value methodologies to analyze contract performance, the job uses the earned value reporting period to take a snapshot.

Historical reporting data is generated based on a contract association with the period. The contract program manager associates the contract with the appropriate period. The earned value reporting period drives the reporting data that shows up on the CPR reports.

Contact your CA Clarity PPM administrator or see the Administration Guide for more information.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the contract to associate a reporting period.

   The properties page appears.

2. Complete the following field in the General section:

   Earned Value Reporting Period

   Defines the assigned reporting period for the contract. Once the update earned value history of contracts job runs, the field is locked.

   Default: Unlocked

   If a work package is linked to a project or project task, CA recommends that you associate the same earned value reporting period to the project, or project task as you associate with the contract.

   Note: See the Project Management User Guide for more information.

3. Save the changes.

More information:

Earned Value Manager Report Descriptions