Distribution of Resource Amounts Across Budget Periods

After you generate separate budget detail rows from the Resources by Activity amounts, the Get Plan process distributes those values across budget periods in the budget plan. The system distributes the amounts using one of these methods:

• Even Spreading

  Even spreading occurs when the activity Start Date and activity End Date correspond to the first and last day of a defined budget period. The system divides the budget amount for each detail row by the total number of periods for the activity. The system then allocates this amount evenly across all of the periods for the activity.

• Uneven Spreading

  Uneven spreading occurs when the activity Start Date and activity End Date do not begin and end on the first and last day of a defined budget period. The system divides the budget amount for each detail row by the total number of days in the activity duration. The system then allocates this amount to each period according to the number of days in that period.