IT Management - Labor Details - Consumption - Trend report (v103)
◆ Applies to: Costing Standard 11.8.x running on either TBM Studio v12 or TBM Studio v11.
Introduction
Use this report to see the labor costs allocated to a specific IT subtower by month for the past 13 months.
Roles
This report is designed for:
- IT Finance personnel
- Cost Center Owner
Objectives
Use this report to:
- See the labor costs allocated to a specific IT sub-tower by month for the past 13 months.
- Review the supporting data to see the budget variance and percent variance by month.
Questions answered
You can use the information presented on this report to answer the following questions:
- How has the resource cost allocation fluctuated over time?
- If labor is allocated by time reporting, am I seeing increasing or decreasing demands in one area over another?
- If there is a dramatic deviation followed by a leveling off, ist it a result of a change in the allocation approach? Who is making those allocation changes if not me?
Next actions
Investigate the allocation rules used to map labor spend to IT towers. The options could be: percent allocation by cost center, by role, or time reporting.