Projects Analysis

You can use projects to record transactions and track activity for grants, endowments, scholarships, programs, special events, investments, or other similar entities. Projects offer an extra level of detail, helping you to compare accounts, track budgets, and ensure you meet donor restrictions. To quickly assess your organization's project efforts, select Projects (by month, quarter, or year) from Analysis, Dashboards for a dashboard of key metrics.

Note that the projects dashboards only include accounts that a user has rights to access.

Note: Keep in mind, you can rename a project to any custom term your organization uses to identify projects. For example, you can rename the project as grant, sub-fund, or endowment, depending on your business needs. The name you enter appears anywhere in the program that the term "Project" currently displays. To rename a project, you must access Project business rules in the Configuration module of Financial Edge 7.

Tip: When you apply a filter, all metrics in the dashboard are updated. For more information, see Projects Analysis Filters.

Under Summary, you can — at a glance — review metrics for projects, such as actual amount spent vs. a project's budgeted amount, based on the filters. For more information, see Projects Summary.

Under Budget vs. actuals, you can analyze project details around the amount spent vs. the amount budgeted per month. For more information, see Projects Budget vs. Actuals.

Under Top 10 projects, you can view how well projects are performing against their budgets. For more information, see Top 10 Projects.