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Benefits by year report provide the project manager a single place to view Benefit plan (Forecast /Budgeted) and its associated benefit for various years across multiple projects. Information is displayed in a bar graph and user can further drill down the details to investment level. Project Managers can use this report to analyze if the projects are giving intended benefits and take appropriate decisions accordingly. User can further narrow their search by OBS Type & Path, Plan Type (Budget/Forecast), Year and Is Plan of Record?. -
Project Cost within Budget report displays count of projects that are within or exceeding budget in the form of a bar chart. It also displays Total budget cost and Planned cost. User can further drill down the details to investment level. You can further narrow your search by OBS Type & Path and Investment Manager. -
Many times Roles are spread out geographically or by function and these Roles will have different rates. For example, a developer in India may charge $25/hour vs a Developer in US may charge $50/hour. When the project team has a requirement of several developers, the PM will have to add a region specific role (Developer-US, Developer-India) so that the right rates can be applied when a cost plan is created. This creates a challenge in terms of Resource Management. As the Demand and Capacity can be spread between different region specific roles. Proper configuration on the Rate Matrix can allow you to have one Role name but different rates based on Location or Department. This allows greater flexibility and takes away the redundancy of Role Names. You can do so with the Project Team Member Properties. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with Financial Actuals and Reporting in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.3 views. Document includes detail on which jobs should be run to ensure project and financial data is synchronized with the latest posted actuals. Information is provided on how to analyze cost plans and how to review actual transactions. Instructions are provided on how to analyze budget plans. -
This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the management of project Financials in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. This doc references version 16.3 views. Document includes summary information on the Financials module and provides detail on how to customize the grid and save views. Instructions are provided on how to filter data and how to use the ⋮ (vertical ellipses) icon to access further features. Detail is provided on the group by function, the column panel, the export of cost plan and editing cost plan and budget plan data from the grid. -
This asset in used to update investment level TSV attributes using Cost Plan, Budget plan, Actual transaction, Planned and Budgeted Benefit Cost data as needed. It uses mappings/logic from ‘Cost Rollup Mappings’ object. Compatibility – Its compatible from 16.0 onwards with Oracle, PostgreSQL and MSSQL. -
A presentation slide deck from Rego University 2022. This document reviews the best practices for Financial Management in Clarity. - Involve the Finance Team
- Finance will drive financial classifications, resource rates, and capitalization rules
- Keep Things as Simple as Possible
- Streamline financial classifications in both the Estimation and Actuals processes
- Clarity is Not the Company’s Financial System of Record – it is a Project and Portfolio Management System
- Clarity may never match general ledger or project accounting module 100%
- Spend Time on the Full Architecture – Current and Future State
- Start With Required Outputs and Work Backward
- Integrate to Avoid Duplicate Entry
- Involve the Finance Team
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This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the creation of Cost Plans in Clarity’s Modern User Experience. Instructions are provided on how to access Cost Plans from the Financials tab and how to create a new Cost Plan. Detail is provided on how to create a cost plan with project information (Populate from Allocations and Populate from Assignments), how to manually enter data into a cost plan and how to set a cost plan as the Plan of Record.

