Commitment and Budget Control Validations

When commitments, budgets, and invoices are added or changed, Trimble Unity Construct performs cost validations. The additions and modifications are checked against the Contract and/or the Budget to make sure amounts do not exceed contract or budget amounts. Below is a summary of how Trimble Unity Construct performs these validations. Should you attempt to perform a transaction that violates a cost validation, an error message displays indicating so, and the transaction will fail.

Cost Entity

Setting

Validation

Expression

Commitment Invoices

General Settings

The total value of actuals received to date plus the commitment invoice amounts may be equal or less than the current contract value, but they cannot exceed the current contract value.

Actuals Received + Invoice Amount MUST < = Current Contract Value

If, the current contract value is negative

Actuals received to date plus the commitment invoice amount must be greater than or equal to the current contract value.

Actuals Received + Invoice Amount MUST > = Current Contract Value

If, commitment control setting is Uncontrolled, the commitment is checked against the current budget

The total value of actuals received to date plus the current invoice amount must be less than or equal to the current budget.

Actuals Received + Invoice Amount MUST < = Current Budget

If, the budget is negative

Actuals received to date plus this Invoice Amount must be greater than or equal to the Current Budget.

Actuals Received + Invoice Amount MUST > = Current Budget

Commitments

General Setting

(When a commitment is added, Trimble Unity Construct checks the amount against the budget )

The sum of the current commitments plus the commitment must be less than or equal to the current budget.

Current Commitments + Commitment Amount MUST < = Current Budget

If, the current budget is negative

The sum of current commitments and the commitment must be greater than or equal to the current budget.

Current Commitments + Commitment Amount MUST > = Current Budget

Commitment Changes

General Setting

(When a commitment change is added, Trimble Unity Construct checks the amount against the budget)

The total value of the current contract value plus the commitment change amount must be greater than or equal to actuals received to date.
 

Current Contract Value + Invoice Amount MUST > = Actuals Received

The total current commitments plus the commitment change must be less than or equal to the current budget

Current Commitments + Commitment Change MUST < = Current Budget

If, actuals received is negative

The current contract value plus the commitment change must be less than or equal to actuals received.

Current Contract Value + Invoice Amount MUST < = Actuals Received

If, current budget is negative

The sum of current commitments plus the commitment change must be greater than or equal to the current budget.

Current Commitments + Commitment Change MUST > = Current Budget

General Invoices

General Setting:

(When a general invoice is applied, Trimble Unity Construct checks the invoice against the budget)

The sum of the actuals received to date plus the Invoice amount must be less than or equal to the current budget.

And

The sum of current commitments to date plus the invoice must be less than or equal to the current budget.

Actuals Received + Invoice amount MUST < = Current Budget

And

Current Commitments + Invoice Amount MUST < = Current Budget

If, the current budget is negative

The combined amounts of the actuals received plus this invoice amount

And

the current commitments plus the invoice amount must be greater than or equal to the current budget.

Actuals Received + Invoice amount MUST > = Current Budget

And

Current Commitments + Invoice Amount MUST > = Current Budget

Budget Change

General Setting

The combined current budget plus the budget change amount must be greater than or equal to both the current commitments and actuals received:

Current Budget + Budget Change MUST > = Current Commitments

And

Current Budget + Budget Change MUST > = Actuals Received

If, the sum of the current budget and the budget change is negative

The combined amount of the current budget and the budget change must be less than or equal to the current commitments and the actuals received

Current Budget + Budget Change MUST > = Current Commitments

And

Current Budget + Budget Change MUST > = Actuals Received