Description / Why is this feature important to you / Current Behaviour -
Workfront has the ability to separate labor costs between what was budgeted, what is planned, and what are actual labor costs. While there is an ability to separate expenses between what expenses are planned and what are the actual expense results, Workfront does not have the ability to separate expenses between what was budgeted and what was planned.
A project's baseline / approved budget in terms of expenses must be stored outside of Workfront.
Planned expenses entered on the Expenses dashboard tab and/or on Tasks get automatically updated on the Business Case. If a project manager adds planned expenses that weren't budgeted, how would we report a variance between budgeted and planned expenses?
Answer: Workfront users are not able to report a variance between budgeted and planned expenses.
How would you like the feature to work -
Similar to how a budget is entered on the business case for labor, allow the expenses entered there to be the baseline budget separate from planned expenses. Planned expenses would be separate and change to reflect what is expected to happen, whereas the budgeted expenses would remain equal to the baseline approved budgeted expenses.
Users would then be able to report between budgeted expenses, planned expenses, and actual expenses, similar to how users are able to report between budgeted labor, planned labor, and actual labor.
