OUT04 - Outcome Portfolio Financial Health

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Overview

Based on an approved financial baseline and the current forecast to complete, this exception based analytic identifies outcomess that are financially out of tolerance and are forecasting an over or under run on approved baseline budget.

Business Outcomes

Identify outcomes that are starting to forecast a financial exception and take mitigating actions.
Establish robust baselining and forecasting processes to ensure that outcome budgets can be controlled.
Identify outcomes that are forecasting a cost under run and determine whether this funding may be leveraged elsewhere.

Supporting Capabilities

Manage Outcomes Development
Financial Management

User Parameter Configuration (for Administrators)

Parameters	Description	Configuration Options	Default/Example Settings
Start/End Period	Parameters used to determine the data returned based on the fiscal calendar periods	The fiscal time period range used in the financial summarization depends on the user parameters for the Start and Finish Periods.	No defaults available
Separate Projects with No Baseline?	Option to include, or include in a separate table, projects that don’t yet have a financial Plan baseline (Baseline version value =0)	Default for positioning of projects with no baseline. Options are: Bottom, Top, No	separate_no_baseline=Bottom
Select Target Currency	Display currency	Can only be changed in a multi-currency environment	Default will be the User’s currency as defined in (My Account / Preferences / Financial and Investment Planning / Currency). If no preference is set, then it will use the system default currency. ☑ Added on v2.2.0.0 For all versions prior, it will use the system default currency.
Financial Category	Ability to choose between financial categories	Defaults is 'Cost'	Defaults can not be changed
Account Types	Options to set the default account types that are selected. Each selection is a separate entry in the configuration structure	Options are the sequence ID of the account type (ACTP$BEN, ACTP$CAP, etc). You cannot mix benefit accounts and cost accounts.	account_type=ACTP$CAP account_type=ACTP$EXP account_type=ACTP$LAB
Working/Baseline Versions	Option to select financial versions for comparison	By default this report uses the Primary Work Financial Model and the Forecast and Baseline version flags. The user is able to select different versions.	Defaults can not be changed

Hidden Parameter Configuration (for Administrators)

Parameters	Description	Configuration Options	Default/Example Settings
Table Columns	Two grouped columns before the outcome name. Four optional columns after the outcome name.	It is recommended that WBS parent levels are used in the first two columns. It is recommended that the later four columns are used for key status and/or responsibility attributes	pbs_level_2_prod pbs_level_3_prod pbs6_prod pbs1_prod lc_role_915_prod
Override Financial Model	Ability to override the default financial model for the report	To override the financial model simply add the syntax under parameter defaults: model_id=x (where x is the id of the model)	Report will reference financial data from the default model until the syntax is specifically added.
Report Title	Configurable report title that appears at the top of the report.	If a longer report title is required, then create additional report_title=xxx entries and these will be concatenated together based on the order in which they are listed in the configuration structure.	report_title=Outcome Financial Health

Additional Information

The data displayed is from the outcome financial plan and is therefore dependent upon the financial plan load process and all upstream processes such as progression and daily tables.

Technical/Database Information

Report (RDL) Location	…/Reports/RPM/Outcome_RPM/RPM-OUT04/RPM-OUT04_v2.rdl
Database	This report uses the transactional database and updates will be real-time.
Report Developer Info	RPM-OUT04_v2 RDL is a derivative of the FM04 RDL