TODO.Adding an revenue To budget an expenserevenue, either click the Add Expense Create Revenu button or hit the "a" (for add) shortcut key. This brings the expense revenue edition dialog. Check the "create another" box at the bottom of the dialog in order to create many expenses revenues in sequence. Image Removed Image Added
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The following table describes the various fields of the expense revenue edition dialog. Name | The name of the expense revenue as it will be displayed on the left side of the budget. Examples: Rent for 222 Main Street, IDE licenses, Printer toner, Web hosting fee |
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Amount | The amount of this expenserevenue. Note that in the case of a recurrent expenserevenue, the amount of the payments for that expense revenue will depend if it is amortized or not. If the expense revenue is amortized, the amount entered here will be evenly split on the number of payments defined in the recurrence definition (see Recurring field below). Otherwise, the amount of each payment will be the amount entered in this field. |
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Category | The category of the expenserevenue. See section Categories for more details on each option. |
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Type | A type for the expense revenue is used to group expensesrevenues. While typing in this field, types entered previously for other expenses revenues that match what you type will be suggested to you for completion to help you avoid typos and duplications.Examples: Rent, Office furniture, Licenses, etc. |
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Recurring | By default, an expense revenue occurs only once. To change the date of occurrence of that expense revenue or to make the expense revenue recurrent (and possibly amortized), click the edit link. This brings up a dialog allowing you to define the recurrence for that expenserevenue. As you change the values in that dialog, you will be presented with a phrase explaining the recurrence, in the text area located just above. See section on Expense revenue recurrence for more details on the Recurrence dialog. |
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Amortized | If the Repeat value in the Recurrence dialog is changed to something else than Once, then an amortized checkbox appears under the Recurring field. Check this box if you want the Amount of this expense revenue to be evenly split in payments occurring on dates defined in the Recurring field. |
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Description | An optional, free form description of the position. |
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| Expense Revenue recurrenceWhen editing an expenserevenue, you can define the dates of its payments using the Recurrence dialog that appears when clicking the edit link of the Recurring field in the Expense revenue edition dialog. The recurrence dialog gives you great flexibility on defining when the payments should occur. A recurrent expense revenue can occur Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly. Furthermore, each of these frequencies brings other options to further specify dates of occurrence. Daily expenserevenueSelect "Daily" in "Repeat" field to specify a daily expenserevenue. A daily expense revenue can occur at some interval, for example, every 3 days. 
The following table describes the various fields of the daily expense revenue dialog Repeats every | The interval in days separating payment occurrences. Example: Every 3 days. |
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Starts on | The date the first payment will occur for that expenserevenue. That date can be specified outside of the folio's time frame. In that case, no payment (and thus no cost) will be calculated for that expense revenue in the budget and a warning will be displayed next to the expenserevenue's name. See Expenditures and Portfolio Time Frame for more details. |
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Ends | One of three options: - Never, means it will end at folio's end date; it will also be considered in the forecasts if the Estimated date to completion is later than the folio's end date.
- After a specified number of occurrences;
- On a specified date.
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Weekly expenserevenueSelect "Weekly" in "Repeat" field to specify a weekly expenserevenue. A weekly expense revenue can occur at some interval, for example, every 3 weeks. It can also occur on more than one specified days of the week for each period 
Repeats every | The interval in weeks separating payment occurrences. Example: Every 3 weeks. |
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Repeat on | Check the days of week the payments will occur for the expenserevenue. |
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Starts on | The date on or after which the first payment will occur for that expenserevenue. If the date entered does not match the other criteria, then the first payment will occur on the first date matching the definition occurring after that date. The date can be specified outside of the folio's time frame. In that case, no payment (and thus no cost) will be calculated for that expense revenue in the budget and a warning will be displayed next to the expenserevenue's name. See Expenditures and Portfolio Time Frame for more details. |
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Ends | One of three options: - Never, means it will end at folio's end date; it will also be considered in the forecasts if the Estimated date to completion is later than the folio's end date.
- After a specified number of occurrences;
- On a specified date.
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Monthly expenserevenueSelect "Monthly" in "Repeat" field to specify a monthly expenserevenue. A monthly expense revenue can occur at some interval, for example, every 3 months. It can also be specified to occur on a given day of the month (e.g. Every 7th day of the month) of on a given day of week (e.g. Every second Monday of the month). 
The following table describes the various fields of the monthly expense revenue dialog. Repeats every | The interval in months separating payment occurrences. Example: Every 3 months. |
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Repeat by | One of two options: - Day of the month: the payments will occur on the day of the month specified by the date entered in "Starts on" field. (e.g. Every 7th day of the month)
- Day of the week: the payments will occur on the day of the week specified by the date entered in "Starts on" field. (e.g. Every second Monday of the month)
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Starts on | The date on or after which the first payment will occur for that expenserevenue. If the date entered does not match the other criteria, then the first payment will occur the first date matching the definition occurring after that date. The date can be specified outside of the portfolio's time frame. In that case, no payment (and thus no cost) will be calculated for that expense revenue in the budget and a warning will be displayed next to the expenserevenue's name. See Expenditures and Portfolio Time Frame for more details. |
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Ends | One of three options: - Never, means it will end at portfolio's end date; it will also be considered in the forecasts if the Estimated date to completion is later than the portfolio's end date.
- After a specified number of occurrences;
- On a specified date.
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Yearly expenserevenueSelect "Yearly" in "Repeat" field to specify a yearly expenserevenue. A yearly expense revenue can occur at some interval, for example, every 3 years. 
The following table describes the various fields of the monthly expense revenue dialog. Repeats every | The interval in years separating payment occurrences. Example: Every 3 years. |
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Starts on | The date of the first payment for that expenserevenue. The date can be specified outside of the portfolio's time frame. In that case, no payment (and thus no cost) will be calculated for that expense revenue in the budget and a warning will be displayed next to the expenserevenue's name. See Expenditures and Portfolio Time Frame for more details. |
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Ends | One of three options: - Never, means it will end at portfolio's end date; it will also be considered in the forecasts if the Estimated date to completion is later than the portfolio's end date.
- After a specified number of occurrences;
- On a specified date.
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| Custom fields (only available for Actual expenses)If you add Custom expense revenue fields in the Folio configuration screen they will available in Actual expensesrevenues. Note that you can enter any value up to 255 characters. Also that those values will displayed in the actual expense revenue details column under the "Extra Information" section. 
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Editing expenserevenueSelect an existing expense revenue to modify by clicking on it and then either click on the drop-down menu on the top-right part of the expense revenue details view (on righthand side of the screen) and select the Edit option or hit the "e" (for edit) shortcut key. This will bring up the expense revenue edition dialog. For a detailed description of the expense revenue edition dialog, refer to Adding an expenserevenue section above. Anchor |
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| Deleting an expenserevenueSelect an existing expense revenue to delete by clicking on it and then either click on the drop-down menu on the top-right part of the expense revenue details view (on righthand side of the screen) and select the Delete option or hit the "d" (for delete) shortcut key. This will bring up a dialog to confirm expense revenue deletion. Click the Delete button to confirm the deletion, or Cancel link to abort deletion. Deletion is permanent, thus make sure you really want to delete an expense revenue before proceeding. You can delete multiple expenses revenues or even a mix of positions and expenses revenues at once by selecting multiple lines in the budget (by pressing and holding the Control key while clicking the positions and expenses revenues to delete). You can then delete the selected expenditures the same way you delete a single expenserevenue. Note that in this case, the deletion confirmation will inform you of how many items are about to be deleted. Anchor |
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| Copying an expense revenue to actualSelect an existing expense revenue to copy to actual by clicking on it and then either click on the drop-down menu on the top-right part of the expense revenue details view (on righthand side of the screen) and select the Copy to actual option or hit the "t" (for to Actual) shortcut key. This will copy the selected expense revenue to actual, including its attached files. You can copy multiple expenses revenues to actual at once by selecting them in the budget (by pressing and holding the Control key while clicking the expenses revenues to copy). You can then copy the selected expenses revenues the same way you copy a single expenserevenue. The confirmation message will inform you of how many expenses revenues have been copied. Expense Revenue costsThe budget page shows the calculated planned cost for each expense revenue and expense revenue groups (by type). The cost of an expense revenue is calculated by multiplying its payment amount by the number of payments. Code Block |
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Cost = Number of payments x Payment amount |
The number of payments depends on the recurrence definition for that expense revenue and the portfolio's time frame. Only payments occurring (inclusively) between the portfolio's start and end dates (see Folio Configuration) are computed. Note also that non-working days are not taken into account (e.g. a rent payment won't be skipped if the incurrence date is a holiday). Panel |
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title | Example 1 - Recurrent expense |
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| Amount: 100$ Recurrence definition | Monthly on day 1, from 1/Feb/2014 | Portfolio time frame | 1/Jan/2014 to 1/May/2014 | Number of payments | 4 (February 1st, March 1st, April 1st and May 1st) | Payment amount | 100$ | Cost | 4 x 100$ = 400$ |
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title | Example 1 - Amortized recurrent expense |
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| Amount: 100$ (amortized) Recurrence definition | Monthly on day 1, from 1/Feb/2014 | Portfolio time frame | 1/Jan/2014 to 1/May/2014 | Number of payments | 4 (February 1st, March 1st, April 1st and May 1st) | Payment amount | 100$ / 4 = 25$ | Cost | 4 x 25$ = 100$ |
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| Expense revenue detailsWhen selecting an expense revenue on the budget page, more information on that expense revenue is displayed in the details panel on the right. This panel shows the expense revenue detailed information: - Name
- Type
- Category
- Amount
- First and last payment dates
- Recurrence definition
- Calculated total cost
- Reporter (the user who added the position)
- Description
- Attached files
You can also select multiple expenses revenues or even a mix of positions and expenses revenues at once by selecting multiple lines in the budget (by pressing and holding the Control key while clicking the positions and expensesrevenues). This gives you an aggregated view showing the total costs of the selected expenditures. Anchor |
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| Attaching files to an expenserevenue You can attach files to an expense revenue in order to keep related documents handy (invoices, quotations, etc.). To attach files to an expenserevenue, select it and then click button Attach Files in expense revenue details panel on the right. This will bring up a dialog where you can pick a file (or multiple files simultaneously, if your browser allows it) and enter an optional comment. |