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Status Future consideration
Workspace Apptio
Categories Apptio Planning
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 2, 2023

Increased Optionality for Labor Amortization

Our team has specific requirements for how salary is amortized monthly in a budget or forecast plan.  Each country in our organization has an estimated # of PTO and Holiday hours a month, that we would like to back out of our plan completely.  For instance, in the US, we may want 98.5% of base comp to hit the salary account in January, 89% in February, and 100% in March.  Currently the straight-line, calendar, and working day amortization options do not allow us to get down to these very specific percentages a month.   The only workaround currently would be entering different FTE %s per person each month that would give us the amounts were looking for, which would be extremely tedious.  Our idea is to update the working day calendar functionality to enter %s instead of # of working days in a month.​​