The 'Revised Budget' screen offers a comprehensive view of the project’s financial progress. It includes the original bid, approved change orders added to the schedule, and approved change orders that are pending inclusion. This helps contractors monitor how change orders impact the overall budget and stay up to date with their financial allocations throughout the project.
To view the current budget
- Open the budget module if it is not already opened. To do so:
- Click the app launcher
and select 'Finance.'
- Click 'Budget' at the top.
- Click the app launcher
- Click 'Revised Budget' on the left.
The original bid and list of change orders appended to the project budget is shown:
- Cost Code - The code representing the division/category of work as per the cost code list at your company level.
- Name - The label of the work/task.
- Division Code: The code assigned to the division under which the work falls.
- Division Name: The name of the division or section related to the work.
- Type: Indicates the source of the line item—whether it is part of the Original Bid, an Approved CO, or an Upcoming CO in schedule.
- CO Number: The identifier for the change order, if applicable. This field is blank for original bid items.
- Quantity - The numeric value of the amount of work required to be done.
- Quantity Unit - Units by which the amount of work done is measured.
- Effort Hours - The total working time required for completion of the work, in manhours.
- Type of Calculation- How the budget amount for this line item is computed.
- Automatic - The total amount is calculated as a sum of the values specified for different cost types, like material, labor, equipment, etc.
- Manual - Total budget amount entered manually.
- Total Budget Amount - The total budget allocated to that particular task/ deliverable.
- Labor - The monetary value of the cost allotted for the wages.
- Equipment - The monetary value of the cost allocated for the use of equipment and machinery for the work.
- Subcontractor - Expenses related to external subcontracts, if any.
- Material - The monetary value of the cost allotted for the materials used for the work.
- Others - Miscellaneous expenses like transportation, material handling, fees paid to various vendors, agencies, and more.
- Overhead - Operation costs that the company bears.
- Profit - The profit gained by your company from the work item.
- Assigned to - The contractor to whom the budget line item is allocated.
- Contingency - The percentage of the total amount set aside for contingency expenses
Search and filter options:
- Use the 'Search' box located at the top left to find any project using any value from the table as search criteria
- Right-click the column header and customize the display and order of the columns as you wish
- The options at the top right allow you to filter the entries, and manage personalized and customized views of the table. Use the links below to learn more about these:
View Groups and Subtotals
- You can get totals and subtotals of numerical data for any selected set of records by grouping and applying nested grouping. Use the
icon at the top right to organize the data by column headers.
- The system automatically aggregates relevant numerical values, giving a structured breakdown and a clear view of the grand total distribution. See Group and Organize Items in a List View for more details
Download as Excel Sheet
- Click the
button at the top right to save a local copy of the list in Excel format for sharing and record-keeping. See Download List Views and Logs in Excel Format for more details.
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