Hello Tim,

Thank you for raising this Idea.

SYNCHRO Perform currently show "Earned Cost" of an Activity in the user interface via the "Revised earned cost" field in the "Progress" view of the Work Inspector. The Revised earned cost field is calculated by multiplying the "% complete" of the Activity by the "Revised budget cost at complete".

As an example, if the "% complete" of the Activity is 27.5% and the "Revised budget cost at complete" is 2,800,000 ($), then the "Revised earned cost" for the Activity is 770,000 ($).

I believe this aligns with your VOWD (L) calculation above where "Budget Cost (J)" is the same as "Revised budget cost at complete" and "Percent total progress (M)" is "% complete".

However, Perform does not calculate the "Revised budget cost at complete" (your "Budget Cost (J)") from other values. This field is populated either via the user interface or by the Activity Import and the values that fill this field are typically populated from external estimating systems.

To calculate the "Budget Cost (J)" ("Revised budget cost at complete") in the manner you describe ("Unit Rate (F) x Qty (I) x Discount (H)") would require a fundamental change to the underlying data model of SYNCHRO Perform which is a development path that Perform will not pursue.

The recommendation, in this scenario, would be to use SYNCHRO Perform to capture the "Actual progress quantity" values, which would (assuming the "Revised budget quantity at complete" (your "Qty") is populated) give you the "% complete" and then use an external system to populate the "Revised budget cost at complete". Or, alternatively, export the "% complete" data from SYNCHRO Perform (via the "Analytics dataclip") and use that data to calculate the VOWD in a third-party tool such as Excel or PowerBI.

Kind regards,

Luke