Home Work Budget execution map
Budget control
Progress closed at month end, when there was no room left to correct.
Cross-checks the approved budget against actual spend, broken down by stage and category with progress as a percentage. Switches currency, includes or excludes land, and every slice of the chart opens its detail.
What there was and what there is now
Control lived in a spreadsheet that consolidated by hand what each front reported. Days passed between the month closing and the figure reaching management, and by then the decision that figure would have changed was made.
Now progress is checked when it is needed, not when it is due. One screen gives the total, the spend and the percentage, and the split by category shows where the money is going without opening another report.
Proportional, not alphabetical
The ring is sized by amount spent. A list sorted by name hides that one category takes 82 %; a proportional chart cannot hide it.
With and without land
Land distorts any construction progress percentage. Being able to exclude it with a checkbox avoids the “that figure is not comparable” conversation.
Two currencies over the same data
Not two reports and not two databases: the same figure converted. Keeping two versions of a budget is how they start to disagree.
The screen
What it looks like
The screen is a vector reconstruction with sample data. The real system shows amounts and company names we do not publish: the client is unnamed under a confidentiality agreement, and blurring figures over a screenshot always shows.
What changed
It replaces spreadsheets. What improves is not only response time: the figure stops depending on who consolidated it and when. Precision and timeliness, which in practice are the same thing — an exact number that arrives late is no longer a basis for a decision.
Around a hundred people across several companies use it.