Whether or not cost (and benefit) data from the financial summaries for all the contents (proposals, projects, and assets) in a program is rolled up to the program financial summary.

When this option is selected:

• The program cost graph is visible in program header, displaying program cost and budget.

• The Cost tab appears on the Program Overview page. The tab:

  • Provides a link to the program's financial summary;
  • Displays program cost and financial information of lifecycle entities included in the program;
  • Enables you to use Earned Value Analysis to compare cost data across projects in the program.

Enabled only when the Enable Financial Management for this program option is selected.

For details, see Choose budgeting strategy.

Enabled only when the Enable Financial Management for this program option is selected.

When the option is selected, PPM calculates actual labor costs of a program from time sheets that are submitted against the program. The actual labor costs are rolled up to the program's financial summary.

The options control whether cost of the past months is editable and if not, starting from which day the cost becomes non-editable.

They are available only when the feature "Lock Forecast and Actual Costs of Past Months" is turned on by your PPM administrator.

For details about these options, see the Financial Management User Guide : Lock forecast and actual cost of the past months.

1. Program managers estimate the cost that can cover the program and its content, and update the budget for the program.

2. Program managers estimate the cost of each program content, and allocate program budget to the program contents.

3. If allowed by program managers, project (proposal or asset) managers can add budget for projects (proposals or assets), if, for example, they find the budget allocated from the program is not enough.

Allow adding budget in the proposal, project, and asset level: If this option is selected, project (proposal or asset) managers can add budget for projects (proposals or assets) if, for example, they find the budget allocated from the program is not enough. Otherwise, projects, proposals, or assets can get budget only from the program.

Allow the allocation: If this option is selected, program managers can still allocate a negative budget amount to a content even when the negative budget amount would reduce the content's total budget to be less than 0.

Prevent the allocation: If this option is selected, program managers cannot allocate a negative budget amount to a content when the negative budget amount would reduce the content's total budget to be less than 0.

1. Program managers estimate the cost of the program, and update the budget for the program.
2. Project (proposal or asset) managers estimate the cost of the projects (proposals or assets), and update the budget for the projects (proposals or assets).
3. PPM rolls up the budget of projects, proposals, and assets to the program.