The Earned Value report presents the a comparison of earned value with planned and actual costs (or revenues), broke down by specified periods of time. To access this report, click on the Report tab or hit the tab number ('5') and then click on the 'View report' button next to the Earned Value report preview. This will bring up the report with the first day of the current month as the default start (From) date and today's date as the default end (To) date. The report will be automatically refreshed when one of its parameters changes.

This report is available for folios and portfolios

The report first presents a bar chart showing three bars for each selected period: a blue bar indicating the earned value, a green bar indicating the planned costs (or revenues), a another bar indicating actual. The actuals are either costs (red bars) or revenues (yellow bars). Hovering the bars will open a tooltip showing the precise amounts. The dates labels on x-axis can be clicked to navigate to the detailed planned, actual and earned value information for the period ending on that date.


Cost EVM	Revenues EVM

Earned Value chart

Detailed information for all periods follow the chart. Each of these sections shows the list of planned and actual payments, ordered alphabetically and grouped by category and then by types (or position titles). The earned value for that period appears in a lozenge in the heading on the right. A green lozenge indicates a earned value over planned value (earned ≥ planned) and a red lozenge indicates the opposite (earned < planned).

Detailed period section

Configuring the report

You can display budget variance for costs or budget variance for revenues simply select Costs or Revenues option form the 'For' field.

To change the period covered by the report, simply set the dates in the 'From' and 'To' fields to whatever dates you want. The actual period considered will span from the latest of folio's start date and the date entered in "From" field (expenses defined to occur before the folio start won't be taken into account). You can specify which frequency the report should use to break down the overall period. For example, selecting Monthly frequency will show you earned values and expenses broke down by calendar months. Select "Total" value in the Frequency to get earned value and all expenses for the complete period, with no break down. You can finally limit the considered payments to a certain number of types and/or position titles. Simply select/deselect the types you are interested in and the report will be instantly refreshed to reflect the new selection. Selecting or deselecting a category will cause the list of available types and position titles to be updated accordingly. See the table below for detailed information about report parameters.

Earned Value report parameters

For	This parameter allows you to produce EVM report based on Costs or Revenues
From	Start of the time frame for that report. Note that clicking on folio start link set the report start date to folio start date. Also note that if the report start date is before folio start date, only expenses with a incurred date equal to or after folio start date will be taken into account.
To	End of the time frame for that report. Notes: Clicking on folio end link to set the report end date to folio end date. There is no end date limitation as for start date, therefore expenses incurred after today are future known cost Unassigned positions in team are not include in the expenses report.
Frequency	This allow you specify the desired periodicity to use for comparison breakdown: Weekly, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, Monthly andTotal Note that report start date "day" will be the periods starting day. This means if your report start date is a Tuesday and the frequency is Weekly the report will display weekly expenses from Tuesday to next Monday. Monthly frequency breaks down the report data by calendar month. Total means no break down will occur: all data for the selected period will be displayed in a single section.
Label	This allows you to display amounts for the selected Jira Issue Label. (not available at the portfolio level) Note : see Using Labels for more info on.
Categories	Categories to be included in the report
Roles	Position titles to be included in the report
Types	Expense or revenue types to be included in the report

Earned Value report parameters details

Printing the report

Selecting the "Printable" item in the report's action menu found at the top right of the report's parameters panel to get a printer-friendly version of the report.

Printable version of the report

Exporting to Excel

The Earned Value report can be exported to Excel format to give you all the latitude you need to further digest, analyze or graph the data. Do it by selecting the "Export to Excel" item in the report's action menu found at the top right of the report's parameters panel. The parameters that were used to generate the report can be found on the second tab of the generated spreadsheet

Excel export of the report

On this page:

Configuring the report
Printing the report
Exporting to Excel

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Reporting

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