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The best approach connects your budget, purchase orders, subcontracts, and invoices in one system so committed and actual costs update automatically. This gives you a live forecast rather than a monthly snapshot. Purpose-built commercial platforms like Planyard handle this workflow natively, while spreadsheets require manual assembly each month.
EAC stands for Estimate at Completion – the total forecasted cost of a project based on actuals to date plus the estimated cost to complete remaining work. It combines committed costs, invoiced amounts, and anticipated future spend to give commercial teams the most realistic view of where the final project cost will land.
Ideally, budgets update continuously as orders are raised and invoices are approved – not just at month-end. Real-time updating eliminates the reporting lag that causes surprises. At minimum, a formal budget review should happen monthly as part of the CVR cycle, but the underlying data should be current at all times.
Committed costs are amounts you are contractually obligated to pay – subcontract orders and purchase orders that have been issued but not yet invoiced. Actual costs are amounts already invoiced or paid. Tracking both gives you the full picture of financial exposure, not just historical spend.
The most common causes are: untracked variations, procurement decisions made without budget visibility, delays between cost events and reporting, poor forecasting of cost to complete, and scope creep that is not formally valued. A connected budget system catches these issues early rather than at final account.
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