Portfolio

Open this screen in Saral/projects/reports/cfo

The commercial position across the projects you can see: secured workload, value and cost to date, margin to date, forecast final margin with its coverage, open commitment and retention held; value against cost by month; progress against profitability; margin movement since each project's last lock; and the exposure ranking — cash at risk and projects sliding. For a project-scoped QS it is their own projects; for the board it is the group.

You enter

Nothing. The date window, status filter, basis and (on the audit basis) intercompany class narrow what is aggregated.

Saral fills in

Every figure from the shared fact cache over the group's ledger and the commercial records: contract sums and approved variations for secured workload, posted cost, value to date, open purchase orders, retention held.
Forecast final margin only where a project has a QS forecast on its latest lock — and how many projects are missing one, stated beside the figure.
Margin movement against each project's most recent locked CVR on the same basis; the margin bridge's unexplained residual, and a project 'sliding' when it is negative two locks running.
Cash at risk: unpaid applications plus retention held past its release date under the contract particulars.

It produces

The board pack (PDF, Excel) and the portfolio CSV, emailed or downloaded.
The movement and risk register and the ranked exposure table.

What this page is for

Every other report answers 'how is this job doing'. This one answers the portfolio questions: where is the margin, which way is it moving, what is committed but not yet spent, and where is cash at risk. It is the CVR's dashboard face, scoped to the projects the viewer may see, so a QS with one project gets a one-project portfolio.

Blanks are deliberate

Forecast final margin is shown only for projects whose latest lock carries a QS forecast, and the tile says how many of the projects are covered. A board pack that guesses is worse than one that admits the gap. Which anticipated final value the pack quotes — agreed or the QS's forecast — is the account's setting and is stated under the header.

Movement needs locks

A locked CVR records margin for all time, so movement compares today's position with the last lock on the same basis. With a date window set, today's margin covers only the window and the difference would not be movement — clear the dates. Once two or more months are locked the trail appears, and a project whose bridge residual is negative on two locks running is flagged sliding.

Where next

Open a project's CVR Report to see the movement explained, and Benchmarks to compare projects on cost per m², labour and subcontract shares and payment days.

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