Any tips/advice much appreciated. Here's the problem....
I need to produce a project plan from which I can create a Capital Budget spend profile. Numerous milestones at different phases within my project represent a budgetary release. What I need to be able to is attach the value of that budgetary release to the correct milestone/task, and from that produce a report that shows when the Capital is required, and totals per month/quarter/year etc. Ultimately, I will be able to tell if any project delays result in a Budgetary strain in a given period.
The only way I can think of doing this, is to represent the Capital Release as a resource, with the Budget Value as a Cost. With a bit of fiddling, I can produce the desired report (i.e. required funds per period), but it is far from ideal. I am sure there is a better way, but cannot find any guidance.
Can anyone help?
I need to produce a project plan from which I can create a Capital Budget spend profile. Numerous milestones at different phases within my project represent a budgetary release. What I need to be able to is attach the value of that budgetary release to the correct milestone/task, and from that produce a report that shows when the Capital is required, and totals per month/quarter/year etc. Ultimately, I will be able to tell if any project delays result in a Budgetary strain in a given period.
The only way I can think of doing this, is to represent the Capital Release as a resource, with the Budget Value as a Cost. With a bit of fiddling, I can produce the desired report (i.e. required funds per period), but it is far from ideal. I am sure there is a better way, but cannot find any guidance.
Can anyone help?