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  • 1 Project Definition
    • Overview
    • Project List
    • Project Set
    • Overview of Managing Resources in Financial and Planning Projects
    • Project Customers
    • Using Project Roles for Project Planning to Billing
    • How to Calculate Task Dates for New Projects
    • Project Date Cascade Options
    • Examples for Using Class Categories
    • Options to Change Project and Task Organizations
    • Import Projects
    • Import Resource Breakdown Structures Process
    • FAQs for Project Definition
      • How can I view the list of recently accessed projects?
      • What happens if you enable the project type for sponsored projects?
      • Can I change the business unit when creating a project template from an existing template?
      • Can project dates be outside of the earliest task start date and latest task end date?
      • What's a partner organization?
      • What's the difference between a job title and a project role?
      • What's a default planning resource breakdown structure?
      • What's a primary resource breakdown structure?
      • Why can't I change the primary planning resource breakdown structure?
      • Can I edit resource breakdown structures on a project?
      • What's the difference between a planning, billing, and reporting resource breakdown structure?
      • Why do I specify a percentage for a class category and class code combination?
      • What's a primary project manager?
      • Can a project administrator create resource requests?
      • How do I find out if a project is integrated with Enterprise Performance Management?
    • Transaction Controls
      • Transaction Controls
      • How Expenditure Item Chargeable Status is Determined
      • Import Project and Task Transaction Controls
      • FAQs for Transaction Controls
        • What's the difference between exclusive and inclusive transaction controls?
        • Can I override the billable status of an expenditure item?
    • Asset Assignment and Capitalization Options
      • How can I create a project asset?
      • Asset Cost Allocation Methods
      • Considerations for Managing Capitalized Interest
      • Capitalized Interest Setup Options
      • How can I amortize adjustments to capital assets?
      • FAQs for Asset Assignment and Capitalization Options
        • What's a capital interest stop date?
        • What's the difference between a project asset and an Oracle Assets asset?
    • Burden Schedule Assignments
      • Burden Schedule Task Assignment Options
      • FAQs for Burden Schedule Assignments
        • Which burden schedule is used for calculating actual costs of a sponsored project?
        • Why aren't burdened costs calculated based on the selected burden schedules for a sponsored project or task?
    • Project Reporting Options
      • Financial Plan Types Included in Summarization
      • Performance Trend Indicators
      • KPI Components
      • How KPI Values Are Generated
      • How Performance Status For Tasks And Resources Is Calculated
  • 2 Project Plan Tasks and Task Assignments
    • How Task Dates Work with Assignment Dates
    • Task Assignment Period Amounts
    • Considerations for Replacing Task Assignments
    • Calculate Project and Financial Plan Period Amounts Using Daily Spread Basis
    • Examples of Distribution Factor Calculations for Spread Curves
    • How Financial Project Plan Baseline is Set
    • How Burden Costs Are Calculated
    • How Resource Mapping is Calculated
    • How Resources are Mapped When Update Financial Project Plan and Progress is Submitted
    • How Task Structure Hierarchies Are Denormalized
    • Import Project Tasks
    • FAQs for Project Plan Tasks and Task Assignments
      • What's a planning project?
      • What's a work type?
      • What's a baseline financial project plan?
      • What happens if I refresh cost rates for tasks on the project plan?
      • What happens if I generate a budget from a financial project plan?
      • When must I update actual amounts in the project plan?
      • What happens if I synchronize project updates?
    • FAQs for Project Staffing Plan
      • Can I assign a resource to a task multiple times on the project plan?
      • Can I transfer task assignments or other changes from the budget to the project plan?
      • What happens if I adjust task assignment amounts?
      • What happens if I delete a task assignment with actual amounts?
      • What happens if I refresh cost rates for task assignments on the project plan?
      • What's an unplanned resource?
      • How can I convert an unplanned resource to planned?
      • What happens if I set an unplanned resource as a planned resource?
      • Can a resource with actuals get added directly as a planned resource to the financial project plan?
      • Can I add a financial resource directly at the task level?
      • When does a generic resource get added to a task?
      • What's the difference between distributing and calculating task assignment period amounts?
      • Why are burden cost amounts in the Burden Details window different from those on the resource assignment?
      • Why can't I find task assignments for a replacement resource?
      • Why can't I find persons in the list of resources when I enter team members, planning resources, or person rate schedules?
  • 3 Project Budgets and Forecasts
    • Considerations for Creating Budgets and Forecasts
    • How Budgets and Forecasts are Copied
    • Edit Budgets and Forecasts
    • Change Order Automation for Project Budget Adjustments
    • Financial Milestones
    • Import Financial Project Plans
    • Import Project Budgets
    • Import Project Forecasts
    • Considerations for Award Project Budgets
    • FAQs for Project Budgets and Forecasts
      • Where are the planning options of a financial plan version derived from when you create a forecast version?
      • Why don't margin amounts appear for some budget or forecast versions?
      • Why can't I see the Retain spread from source option when generating forecasts?
      • How is the manual periodic spread maintained on date changes?
      • Why task numbers are sorted in alphanumerical order on the Manage Financial Project Plan page?
      • What's the difference between standard cost rate and effective cost rate?
      • What's the difference between standard burden multiplier and effective burden multiplier?
      • What's the difference between standard revenue rate and effective revenue rate?
      • How are distribution factors calculated for forecast ETC periods?
      • Can I select any financial plan version for comparison when reviewing a budget or forecast?
      • Do reporting options for the focal financial plan version determine comparison plan values?
      • What happens when I calculate amounts for a selected budget or forecast line or period line?
      • Can I change the planning currency of planned resources in a budget line, forecast line, or financial project plan?
      • Can I update planning element values for a budget or forecast line in Excel?
      • What happens if I select rows for deletion when editing a periodic budget or forecast in Excel?
      • What happens if I enter budget or forecast amounts for a period outside planned dates in Excel?
      • Why can't I edit the planning resources on a budget version?
      • What's the unplanned cost that's displayed on the Manage Budget Versions page?
      • Why actual quantity isn't calculated?
      • Why are some financial plan types not available while generating budget versions?
      • Why some financial plan types aren't available while generating forecast versions?
      • Can I override the default layout of the Edit Budget page for all users?
      • Can I add source quantity and amount columns on the Edit Budget and Edit Forecast pages?
      • Can I enable or disable planning in multiple transaction currencies for a financial project plan, budget version, or forecast version?
      • Can I replace a project plan type that's associated to a project?
      • FAQs for Grants Management Integration
        • How can I enter amounts for an award project budget?
        • Where do the periods on an award project budget come from?
        • Why can't I view the budget versions for an award?
  • 4 Budgetary Control
    • Overview of Budgetary Control
    • How Financial Plan Types and Project Budget Versions Work With Budgetary Control
    • Considerations for Creating Control Budgets
    • Create Control Budgets from Project Budgets
    • Update Control Budget Dates with Project, Task, or Budget Line Dates for Nonsponsored Projects
    • Update Control Budget Dates with Award Dates for Sponsored Projects
    • FAQs for Budgetary Control Integration
      • Why can't I create a budget version with a financial plan type that's enabled for budgetary control?
      • Can I edit a control budget from Project Financial Management?
      • Can I set budgetary control at the task level?
      • Why can't I edit the budgetary control settings for a budget version?
      • Why can't I change the calendar type in a budget version?
      • Why do I have to edit the budgetary control account segments for a budget version?
      • Why can't I select some financial plan types when generating a budget version while setting a baseline for the financial project plan?
      • Why does a budgetary control enabled budget version remain in submitted status?
      • How can I enable budgetary control for my project?
      • Can I perform budgetary control validation for cross-charge transactions?
      • How can I fix the error that says that the project is enabled for budgetary control but there is no control budget?
      • Why does the budget baseline fail or the version reverted to current working status when integrating budget with Budgetary Controls?
  • 5 Financial Project Progress
    • Project Financial Progress
    • Import Project Progress
    • FAQs for Financial Project Progress
      • What's the difference between planned dates and estimated dates?
      • What happens if I update planned amounts based on progress?
      • How does physical percent complete roll up the task hierarchy?
      • Can I capture the progress of accounting periods?
  • 6 Microsoft Project and Project Financial Management Integration
    • How Microsoft Project Works with Project Financial Management
    • Action Controls
    • FAQs for Microsoft Project and Project Financial Management Integration
      • What happens if I use Microsoft Project as a third-party scheduling application?
      • What happens if I clear project identifiers in Microsoft Project?
      • Why do I select attribute values in Microsoft Project?
      • When do I clear the attribute cache in Microsoft Project?
      • Can I import actual amounts into an unlinked project in Microsoft Project?