MS Excel, tracking project month, weekly financials incl. contracted work, forecasts, actuals, variance, expenses, pivot

A comprehensive editable, table MS Excel spreadsheet for tracking project monthly financials including summary view tab, contracted work, forecasts, actuals, variance, expenses, annual leave, suppliers and pivot tab. Purchase also includes other budget tracker examples.

Benefits:

1) Offers tight control, monitoring and reporting of project finances for stakeholder updates on budget used and forecast.

2) Provides multiple charts that can be incorporated into status reports and senior management reports for the project cost status.

3) Incorporates all the typical project actual and forecast items and saves time from having to construct project finance trackers from scratch.


Tab 1: Contains the main finance tracker scrollable by month and includes; resource summary, grade and role on project, expenses incurred, annual leave, sickness, original bid days (from SoW), forecast days, actual days worked, hours, variance, actual internal cost, forecast revenue, actual revenue and revenue variance. The sum total of all the months is also included on the far right of the spreadsheet for all the headings above.

Tab 2: The finance summary tab contains a graphical view by way of charts of all details in Tab 1 above for reporting purposes.

Tab 3: A larger finance dashboard of charts to summarize the project forecasts and costs in various different ways for different reporting requests by stakeholders.

Tab 4/5: Spreadsheet pivots of the information in tab 1.

Tab 6: A comprehensive annual leave / sickness worksheet by resource which is viewable in summary in tab 1 by resource.

Tab7: Any supplier costs.

Tab 8/9/10: Rate card changes across the financial calendar.

About Author: A Senior Project Manager with 31 years experience in delivering projects, a PRINCE2 Practitioner and experienced in Agile SDLCs.