Cash flow report monthly? 2013

Question

How can i report the tasks' cash flow monthly or daily? I use MsP 2013 professional
Thanks very much.

Answer 1

selcukz --
Allow me to officially give you the bad news that it is NOT possible to create a cash flow report in Project 2013 that looks like the Cash Flow report in all previous versions of the software.  The problem with the new Reports feature is that it will
not allow you to display a chart with tasks on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis.
What you will need to do instead is to create a new Visual Report for Excel.  Before you go to all the bother of trying to create a completely new Visual Report, I was able to modify the existing Cash Flow Report in only a few steps to accomplish
what you want to see.  Here is what I did and you can try it:
1.  Open a project and then click the Report tab to display the Report ribbon.
2.  In the Export section of the Report ribbon, click the Visual Reports button.
3.  In the Visual Reports �?? Create Report dialog, click the Select Level of Usage Data pick list at the bottom of the dialog and select either Days or Months.  I selected Months.
4.  Select the Cash Flow Report for Excel and click the View button.
5.  In the resulting Excel workbook, click the Task Usage tab to display the Task Usage worksheet.
6.  In the PivotTable Field List sidepane, deselect the Cumulative Cost field.
7.  In the PivotTable Field List sidepane, select the Tasks dimension and the Monthly Calendar dimension.
You should see the Monthly Calendar dimension in the Column Labels section of the sidepane, the Tasks dimension in the Row Labels section of the sidepane, and the Cost dimension in the Values section of the sidepane.  If you do not seem them in the
correct sections, move them around until they match my description.
8.  In the Task section of the PivotTable, completely expand all of the summary tasks so that you can see all of the detail tasks in the project.
9.  In the Year section of the PivotTable, expand the Year dimension until you see months across the top of the PivotTable.
10.  Click the Design tab to display the Design ribbon with the PivotTable Tools applied.
11.  In the Layout section of the Design ribbon, click the Report Layout pick list button and select the Show in Compact Form item.
12.  Select all of the numbers in the PivotTable and apply currency formatting as desired.
After modifying the default Cash Flow Report for Excel, if this is what you want to see, then you will need to completely create from scratch as a new Visual Report for Excel.  In Project 2013, I believe this is the best way to recreate the old Cash
Flow report we used to see in Project 2010 and earlier versions.  Hope this helps.
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