How to use the Revenue Actual and Forecast report

The Revenue Actual and Forecast report combines historical and future planned hours from your projects and opportunities to provide a complete view of actual revenue and forecasted revenue.

To refresh your report, use the VOGSY ‘extensions’ feature in Google Sheets or the VOGSY add-on in Microsoft Excel.

Upon launching the extension or add-on, a dialog will appear where you can:

• Set a date range

• Select which companies to include

• Choose whether to apply weighted pipeline revenue calculations

The report generates one tab per company, each showing revenue figures in the local currency of that company.

A line is shown per project, per revenue type, containing a column for the total actual revenue and two columns for each month: one with the actual revenue and the other with the forecast revenue. VOGSY calculates the data as follows:

For the project lines, the actual revenue column multiplies all approved timesheet hours by the hourly rates for these hours as set in the projects.

The forecast column adds up the following calculations:

• All the hours in your resource planning are multiplied by the hourly rates.

• All project hours not planned on a resource are multiplied by the hourly rates. VOGSY distributes the unplanned order book revenue forecast equally across the remaining project timeline.

For the opportunity lines, the value of the opportunity is divided equally into the forecast columns for the months of the expected start and end date.

Important note: The hourly rates that VOGSY uses to calculate the above revenues may be based on: a) the sales rates of the activities or b) the cost rates of the employees. Which one VOGSY uses depends on what setting you choose for revenue calculation in the accounting settings in the back office.

• Customer

  The client associated with the project.

• Project number

  The unique identifier for the project.

• Project

  The name of the project.

• Project manager(s)

  The project manager (s) responsible for the project.

• Project status

  The project's status (New, Opportunity pending, In progress, or Closed).

• Opportunity

  The name of the opportunity.

• Stage Opportunity

  The stage that the opportunity is in.

• Sales probability

  Probability of successfully closing the opportunity.

• Company/Department

  The company or department responsible for the project or opportunity.

• Revenue type

  The specific revenue stream of the revenue.

• Total actual revenue

  The total actual revenue up until the selected period, including the project’s opening balance.

• Actual revenue Months

  The actual revenue amount per month, within the selected range.

• Revenue forecast Months

  The forecasted revenue amount for the selected months.