Breakeven Chart

The Breakeven Chart dialog box allows you to see costs, benefits, and the breakeven point for a selected time period for any work item. The bars represent the selected costs and benefits. The line represents the breakeven points. You can hover your mouse over any bar to display its value. A breakeven chart will not render unless the attributes that are used to build the chart contain valid data.

Printing a breakeven chart

You can print a Breakeven chart. Click Print.

To print a Breakeven chart
  1. Open the Projects module.
  2. Select a work item.
  3. Select the Financials tab.
  4. Click View Chart to view the Breakeven chart.
  5. After the Breakeven chart opens, click Print.

Updating data in a breakeven chart

If data in the Financials tab changes while you are working in a Breakeven chart, click Apply to refresh the data.

To update data in a Breakeven chart
  1. Open the Projects module.
  2. Select a work item.
  3. Select the Financials tab.
  4. Adjust the date range, time period, and dimension as needed, across a single tab or across all tabs.
  5. Click Apply.
  6. Click View Chart to view the updated Breakeven chart.

Viewing a breakeven chart

A Breakeven chart displays total cumulative costs, cumulative benefits, and break even points for a date range and time period. The bars in a Breakeven chart represent costs and benefits and the line represents the break even points. Breakeven charts will not render unless the attributes which are used to build the chart contain valid data. You can change the date ranges, time periods, and dimensions from which information in the Financials view is based.

To view a Breakeven chart
  1. Open the Projects module.
  2. Select the Financials tab.
  3. Select a tab in the Financials tab.
  4. Define the date range, time period, and dimension.
  5. Select a dimension.
  6. Click View Chart to view a Breakeven chart.