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Capturing project financials post-project completion

  • November 10, 2025
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We’re reviewing our process for tracking project financials once a project is no longer active.  From a project manager’s perspective, how are other organizations capturing or reporting financial data (e.g., final costs, accruals, or ongoing expenses) after a project has been closed or set to inactive in Planview?

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  • 3 replies
  • November 10, 2025

We generally use a work status of “Completed - Tracking Benefits” until the project “reaches it’s run rate” and/or is no longer in need of financial tracking.


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  • Gold Innovator
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  • November 11, 2025

Hi Nancy, We follow a similar process to RobinB.  PM’s can’t fully close down their projects in Planview whilst there are costs outstanding and need to actively manage accruals (we have found this seems to have incentivised chasing down those 3rd parties and speeded up the generation of those final invoices...).  Ongoing costs post implementation are picked up by the business teams benefiting from the change - in some cases this involves transferring some final project budget to the business cost centres to cover the ‘year 1’ costs which hadn’t been factored into their annual plan. Once the project team rolls off, the status is set as a soft-close with a work stats of ‘Benefits Tracking’.  It stays in this status for as long as our Portfolio Managers/finance partners wish to track the financial benefits