After the Revenue Forecast has been generated, the revenue forecast spread can be entered by Job
Note the : The horizontal scroll bar allows the user to scroll through the forecast periods for data entry, but that the first 4 columns are fixed so that it is always clear what Job Code is being looked at.
Forecasted
A checkbox manually ticked by the user to indicate that the forecast spread has been entered for the selected
line / Job
Approved
A checkbox manually ticked by the user to indicate that the forecast spread has been approved for the selected
line / Job
Job Code / Description
The Job Code and Description for the line forecast
Type
The system created forecast line type created based on the Revenue Forecast Mode.
Options are Header All, Header Time, Header Other, All, Time and Other
To Bill
The Revenue Budget less Billing to Date. Double click on the value to display the basis of the calculation as below.
Note that if the Balance figure in this calculation is a negative value, then the To Bill figure will be 0.00, not the negative value. i.e. overbilling does not imply that a credit needs to be issued in the future
Adjustment
The sum of budgets with an Unapproved Variations Budget Type.
Billed This Per
Billings for the Forecast Year / Period, i.e. this month
To Spread
Calculated as To Bill - the sum of the entered spread values. This is automatically adjusted as the spreads are entered
Spread Total
The sum of the spread values that have been entered
Spread Var'ce
To Spread - Spread Total
Prior Periods
This is a display only of the total value of the revenue spread values entered for periods prior to the 'Start Display Period'. E.g. if a spread value of $10 was entered for period 2009/3 and the 'Start Display Period' was 2009/4 then the displayed Prior Periods value would include this $10 value
Individual Periods
The subsequent columns displayed are per period, for 24 periods beyond the ' Start Display Period'. The revenue spread values for each of the periods are manually entered into each column