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Thin. At this level a single scope change without a price attached takes it negative.
Cost at completion extrapolates from what you have spent and how far through you are. It is only as good as the delivered percentage, which is the number teams flatter most.
It works out direct margin on a project from contracted value, hours at real cost rates, expenses and anything written off.
The written-off line is the one most calculations omit, and it is often the difference between a project that looked fine and one that did not.
Enter the contracted value, then hours by role with the cost rate for each. Use real cost rates — salary plus employer costs, divided by genuinely available hours, not contracted hours.
Add project expenses and any hours worked but not billed.
It will not tell you whether the project was worth doing. A break-even project for a reference client can be a good decision.
It also cannot allocate overhead, and deliberately does not try.
The output is direct margin, excluding overhead deliberately. Overhead allocation turns every margin conversation into an argument about the allocation.
Compare against remaining work. Good margin with the hard eighty per cent still to come is not good margin.
Yes, and be divided by available rather than contracted hours.
No — direct margin only.
No, it runs in your browser.
Half an hour on your own figures, and an honest answer about the parts Treepie does not improve.