Why does the Profitability number for my Clients doesn't seem right, considering the Budget and Cost

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Sometimes, when you look at the Profitability number in the Clients view, it doesn't look right, taking into account the Budget, Spent Budget and Costs we are showing:

Looking at the numbers you can calculate the profitability in 2 ways:

  1. (Budget - Costs) / Budget, which in case of the above numbers would be 93%
  2. (Spent budget - Costs) / Spent Budget, which in case of the above numbers would be 48.86%

So why are we showing Profitability as 49.94% ?

The reason is that we use different budgets for profitability calculation for the individual projects depending on the project type: it's Spent Budget for Time&Materials projects and Total Budget for Fixed Fee projects. The client above has 69 projects, some of which are Time&Materials and others are Fixed Fee. Under the hood, we are accounting for the differences in profitability calculation depending on the project type.

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