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Last Updated: 2023-09-08
Reference: Project Reports

Reference: Project Reports

Workday delivers reports that give you greater insight into the health and progress of your projects and your project staffing needs.
For a complete list of project reports, access the
Workday Standard Reports
report and select these report categories:
  • Projects
  • Set Up Project

Operational Reports

These reports help you analyze the operational health of your projects.
Report
Security
Description
Average Project Duration
Manage: Project Details
domain in the Project Tracking functional area.
Review the durations of your projects so that you can make improvements for faster returns on your investments. Includes:
  • The average project duration for a project hierarchy and its subordinate projects.
  • All projects with at least 1 day of duration for your selected time period.
Forecast vs. Actuals - Project Hours by Month
Reports: Manager
domain in the Staffing functional area.
Manage: Project Resource Forecast
domain in the Projects functional area.
Reports: Time Tracking
domain in the Time Tracking and Time Tracking Hub functional areas.
Compare the forecasted hours to the actual hours worked on a project.
Projects Headcount Supply and Demand by Job Profile
Manage: Project Resources
domain in the Project Tracking functional area.
Worker Data: Current Staffing Information
domain in the Staffing functional area.
Includes:
  • Supply: Workers who don't have an assignment to a resource plan line and are within the selected date range.
  • Demand: Resource plan lines without assigned workers.

Financial Reports

These reports provide insight into the financial health of your projects.
Financial Reports
Security
Description
Average Revenue by Project Role
Reports: Project Billing
domain in the Project Billing functional area.
Analyze how your project staffing relates to project revenue. Workday calculates the average revenue in the project currency by project role based on:
  • Total approved hours.
  • Total billings from invoice lines.
You can see when you use certain project roles more than others.
Comparative Revenue by Project
Reports: Projects
domain in the Projects functional area.
Analyze revenue trends for month-over-month and year-over-year revenue by project. You can customize this report to include quarterly analysis for project revenue using your existing time periods.
Fully Burdened Cost Rate for Worker
To access the report:
Reports: Fully Burdened Cost
in the Projects functional area.
To view data on the report, all of these:
  • Set Up: Fully Burdened Cost Rate
    in the Projects functional area. Grants access to the values under the
    Fully Burdened Cost Rate Calculation
    heading.
  • Worker Data: Compensation Factors for Fully Burdened Cost Rate
    in the Projects functional area. Grants access to the values under the
    Worker Compensation Factors
    heading.
  • Worker Data: Fully Burdened Cost
    in the Projects functional area. Grants access to the values under the
    Fully Burdened Cost Rate Factors
    heading.
You can run this report for workers who have a time block posted to a project. Analyze how Workday uses your configuration to determine the fully burdened cost rate for a specific worker. You can view:
  • The base rate, worker currency, and project currency conversion for the worker.
  • The formula Workday uses to calculate fully burdened labor costs.
  • The overhead rate rules for the worker, and the effective date of the fully burdened labor cost.
Project Billing Exceptions
To access the report:
Process: Project Billing - Core
in the Project Billing functional area.
To access related tasks, both:
  • Process: Customer Contract - View
    in the Customer Contracts and Project Billing functional areas.
  • Reports: Billing
    in the Customer Contracts and Project Billing functional areas.
View a list of all your projects with billable transactions that aren't ready to be billed, and the total number of affected transactions between them. Transactions may be unbillable, have a contract rate change which has not yet been applied to the time transaction, or have no billable rate. Only includes transactions with one of these:
  • A contract line type of Project Time and Expense, or Fixed Fee.
  • A status of Awaiting Review, or Ready to Bill for rate changes and missing rates.
  • A status of On Hold for missing rates only.
Project Budgetary Balance with Labor Cost
Both:
  • Reports: Projects
    in the Projects functional area.
  • Reports: Time Tracking
    in the Time Tracking functional area.
Compare your project budget to your actuals, including labor costs. Doesn't include ad hoc time blocks. View your project actuals and labor costs by the:
  • Current fiscal year.
  • Current period.
  • Life to date of your project.
Current Period amounts only populate for period-based budgets. Life to Date amounts populate for both period- or duration-based budgets.
You can run the report by company, or for all companies within a company hierarchy.
Project Profitability
Reports: Projects
domain in the Projects functional area.
Reports: Time Tracking
domain in the Time Tracking and Time Tracking Hub functional areas.
Analyze how direct and labor costs consume your profitability. Workday calculates:
  • Gross profit and labor margins.
  • Project revenue and related direct costs from journal lines and labor costs based on approved worker time.
Includes these subreports that you can view individually:
  • Project Profitability Direct Costs
  • Project Profitability Revenue
  • Project Profitability Time Blocks
Revenue Leakage
Report Execution
domain in the Tenant Non-Configurable functional area.
For operational and financial users. View these concessions that have been made in the project:
  • Contractual versus actual rates.
  • Project hours leaked.
  • Revenue leakage.
Trended Revenue by Project
Reports: Projects
domain in the Projects functional area.
View revenue by project for the top 10 projects over the selected period. You can analyze revenue trends by:
  • Month-over-month.
  • Year-over-year.
View Initial Project Budget Calculation
Manage: Project Budget
domain in the Projects functional area.
Examine the details of how Workday calculates project budget lines for draft and approved budgets sourced from:
  • Journal lines (actual revenue).
  • Resource forecasts (revenue and cost forecast).
  • Resource plan percentage allocation by project role (estimated cost and revenue).
  • Revenue recognition installments (revenue).
  • Resource plan estimated hours by project role (estimated cost and revenue).
  • Time blocks (actual costs).
Calculated project budget lines don't include manually added project budget line, including lines from:
  • Project Budget Templates.
  • The Import Budget web service.
  • The Maintain Budget task.
  • Worksheets.

Talent Reports

These reports, secured to the
Metrics Published
domain in the System functional area, provide insight into the workforce behind your projects.
Talent Reports
Descriptions
Project Demand
View the number of open resource plan lines without a worker assignment or group association. Includes all resource plan lines with at least a 1-day duration within the current time period.
Project Talent
View a count of open resource plan lines:
  • Marked for external hire.
  • With an open job requisition.
  • Marked for external hire with a pending worker associated with the line.
You can also view the ratio of project demand to staffed workers, where a high ratio indicates a need for increased staffing.