We see this A LOT in our implementations. We sell & implement a project management financial metrics tool (supporting earned value analyss; google if curious).

We see this A LOT in our implementations. We sell & implement a project management financial metrics tool (supporting earned value analyss; google if curious). A key input is always the actual costs of work done, which has to come from the financial system of record. A horrifying amount of the time, the actual path is through goofy undocumented Excel sheets, because nobody knows how to extract it natively from $FinSys.