Contract Summary quadrant

The Contract Summary quadrant displays a chart that compares spending against budgeted amounts for both the current expenditures and the projected total cost of the entire term of the contract.

Note

The current month designation does not refer to the month of the present time. Cost Analyzer determines your current month as the most recent month from the past that has a complete set of cost models built.

For example, if today is January 16, 2018, and there are a complete set of cost models built for December, 2017, then your current month is December.

However, if for some reason the cost models for December and November were never built, and the most recent month that has a complete set of cost models built is October. Then, your current month is October.

The following figure shows a sample Contract Summary that displays charts that show the current spend and the projected spend compared to their corresponding budgeted allocations.

Contract Summary legend

#	Description	Details
1	Budgeted Cost	The total amount budgeted for the contract.
2	Volume chart of projected spend and total budget	The bar chart indicates the cumulative volume level of both the total projected spending and the total budget amounts. The bar represents the accumulated spending from the start of the contract through the end of the contract. The color (whether green or red) indicates whether the projected spending is over or under the budgeted amount allocated. Note You can click on the bar chart to switch the view to the Product Summary Report.
3	Projected Under Budget	The amount indicates the cost difference between the accumulated Projected Spend amount and the accumulated Budgeted amount. Note The arrow color (whether green or red) indicates whether the value is over ( ) or under ( )the budgeted amount.
4	Projected Spend	The amount indicates the total MLC product spending from the start of the contract through the end of the contract. Note The amount includes a sum of both actual and projected cost amounts.
5	Year over Year Cost	The amount indicates the difference between what was spent in the current month relative to how much was spent in the same month a year ago.
6	Ending Date of contract	The date and year of the last month of the contract.
7	Starting Date of contract	The date and year of the starting month of the contract.
8	Volume chart of current spend and current budget	The bar chart indicates the cumulative volume level of both the current spending and the current budget amounts. The bar represents the accumulated spending from the start of the contract through the current billing month. The color (whether green or red) indicates whether the current spending is over or under the budgeted amount allocated. Note You can click on the bar chart to switch the view to the Product Summary Report.
9	Current spend amount	The amount indicates the total MLC product spending from the start of the contract through the current billing month.
10	Current budget	The amount indicates the total budgeted for spending from the start of the contract through the current billing month.
11	Link button	Click to switch the view to show the Product Summary Report. The Contract Summary contains an alternative chart view (Product Summary Report) where you can also access hyperlinks to the Top Contributors Report.
12	Minimize/maximize control button	A control button to maximize or minimize the chart view.
13	Current Budget indicator	The black line indicates the current budget amount represented in the bar chart.
14	Current Under Budget	The amount indicates the cost difference between the current spending amount and the current budget amount. Note The arrow color (whether green or red) indicates whether the value is over ( ) or under ( ) the budgeted amount.
15	Projected Budget indicator	The gray line indicates the projected budget amount represented in the bar chart.

For information about drill-down levels and hyperlinks of the Product Summary Report, see Accessing-the-Product-Summary-Report.

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