Consulting Revenue

Consulting revenues are the ones associated to people generating income in a project.  They are categorized as Operating revenues and are grouped by position titles (e.g. Developer, Architect, Q&A) that you define. You can collapse (or expand) a group of positions by clicking the triangle icon ( ) next to a position title or category.

Adding a consulting revenue

To budget a position, either click the Create Consulting Revenue button or hit the "o" (for consulting) shortcut key.  This brings a consulting revenue edition dialog.  Check the "create another" box at the bottom of the dialog in order to create many revenues in sequence.

The following table describes the various fields of the consulting revenue edition dialog

Editing a consulting revenue

Select an existing consulting revenue to modify by clicking on it and then either click on the drop-down menu on the top-right part of the 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 consulting revenue edition dialog.  For a detailed description of the edition dialog, refer to Adding a consulting revenue section.

Deleting a consulting revenue

Select an existing consulting revenue to delete by clicking on it and then either click on the drop-down menu on the top-right part of the 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 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 a consulting revenue before proceeding.

You can delete multiple consulting revenues or even a mix of consulting and other revenues at once by selecting multiple lines in the Revenue browser (by pressing and holding the Control key while clicking the consulting and non-consulting revenues to delete).  You can then delete the selected revenues the same way you delete a single revenue.  Note that in this case, the deletion confirmation will inform you of how many items are about to be deleted.

Consulting revenue calculation

The Revenue page shows the calculated revenues to date for each consultant and consultant groups (by title).  The revenue of a consultant is calculated by multiplying her billable hours by her rate. 

Consulting revenue(date) = Billable hours(date) x Rate

Note that the number of billable hours is determined by the number of worked hours associated with the consultant (as shown in the Team page) and the billable ratio of the consulting revenue. For instance, a consultant who worked 100 hours to date in a folio and has an 80% billable ratio will have 80 billable hours to date, by default. Billable hours can be overridden in the Details panel under billable hours by clicking on the number of hours calculated. Read the Billable Hours page for all the details about billable hours calculations.

Billable hours(date) = Worked hours(date) x Billable ratio 

The revenue displayed on group title rows is simply the sum of the consulting revenues in that group.

Consulting revenue details

When selecting a consulting revenue on the Revenue page, more information on it is displayed in the details panel on the right.  This panel shows the consulting revenue detailed information:

• Avatar, Name and Title
• Rate
• Billable effort
• Revenue to date
• Reporter (the user who added the consulting revenue)
• Description
• Billable hours
• Attached files

Attaching files to consulting revenues

You can attach files to a consulting revenue in order to keep related documents handy (bills, resumes, etc.). To attach files to a consulting revenue, select it and then click button Attach Files in the 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.