Guide: Set up and track financial data in Focus
A start-to-finish guide to planning, forecasting, and tracking financial data in Focus, from initial site setup through your first set of charts.
Use the Funds tab in focus areas to account for budgets, costs, and benefits tied to your strategy and execution
Guide: Set up and track financial data in Focus
A start-to-finish guide to planning, forecasting, and tracking financial data in Focus, from initial site setup through your first set of charts.
Understand financial concepts in Focus
Track budgets, costs, and benefits alongside your strategic goals in Focus. See how the core financial concepts fit together.
Configure Focus for financial data
Configure the fiscal year, currency, and categories your team needs before tracking costs, benefits, and budgets in Focus.
Import and export financial data with CSV
Use CSV files to bulk-import financial data into Focus, update existing items, or export to update many rows at once.
Troubleshoot CSV import errors
A reference for CSV import errors on the Funds tab. Each message explained, with what caused it and what to change in your file.
Set a budget for a focus area
Set the total funding target for a focus area for a fiscal year and break it down across sub-focus areas to track funding by team or workstream.
Create and edit cost or benefit items
Create, edit, categorize, link, and delete the cost and benefit items that make up your financial tracking in Focus.
Enter forecast and actual values for costs or benefts
Enter and update the monthly forecast and actual values that power trend charts, summary tiles, and variance analysis in Focus.
Set and manage baselines
Lock in a snapshot of your approved cost or benefit plan so you can measure variance over time as forecasts and actuals change in Focus.
Interpret financial charts and views
Read the charts, summary tiles, and item grids on the Funds tab to spot trends, track variance, and see how your financial plan is performing.
Use Rovo to analyze financial data in a focus area
Ask Rovo questions about the financial data on a focus area to surface insights, identify trends, and explain what's driving variance.