How can I report on my operational costs?
The reports highlighted in this article mostly focus on the Direct Costs from the Field Plans attached to your budget.
In general (with a few exceptions), these reports focus on the Direct Costs from the Field Plans attached to your budget. All these reports can be added as favorites and exported to PDF or excel.
Below is a list of operational reports in the Financials tab of Conservis:
Activity Summary Report
Activity Detail Report
Input Summary Report
Input Detail Report
Transport Cost Report
Land Cost by Field Report
Activity Summary
This report provides a breakdown of your budget by activity type, listing all activities and input categories, along with a calculated Budget Amount. It also summarizes, by activity, the planned number of fields, applications, and acres.
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You can filter by Farm, Field, Crop Type, Crop, or by Activity to drill into your budget.
You can filter by Farm, Field, Crop Type, Crop, or by Activity to drill into your budget.
Activity Detail
This report provides a breakdown of your budgeted activities, listing all fields and inputs, along with the budgeted amount and an average cost per acre.
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You can filter by Farm, Field, Crop Type, Crop, or by Activity to drill into your budgeted numbers.
You can filter by Farm, Field, Crop Type, Crop, or by Activity to drill into your budgeted numbers.
Input Summary: Plan / Actual / Variance
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Plan: Summarized by Input Category, this report is a view of budget inputs, showing budgeted costs and quantities.
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Actual: Summarized by Input Category, this report is a view of a specific Crop Year’s actuals. Running this report can help with plan creation.
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Variance: Summarized by Input Category, this report compares budgeted inputs’ costs and quantities against actual input usage for a specific crop year. This report can be helpful during the planning process to make sure inputs are not misstated and helpful during the crop year to track your inputs used against the plan.
Plan: Summarized by Input Category, this report is a view of budget inputs, showing budgeted costs and quantities.
Actual: Summarized by Input Category, this report is a view of a specific Crop Year’s actuals. Running this report can help with plan creation.
Variance: Summarized by Input Category, this report compares budgeted inputs’ costs and quantities against actual input usage for a specific crop year. This report can be helpful during the planning process to make sure inputs are not misstated and helpful during the crop year to track your inputs used against the plan.
Input Detail: Plan / Actual / Variance
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Plan: A detailed view by Input Category & inputs, showing budgeted costs and quantities.
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Actual: A detailed view of actual input usage, for a Crop Year.
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Variance: A detailed view by Input Category, Sub-Category, and Inputs, showing budgeted vs actual costs and quantities, for a Crop Year.
Plan: A detailed view by Input Category & inputs, showing budgeted costs and quantities.
Actual: A detailed view of actual input usage, for a Crop Year.
Variance: A detailed view by Input Category, Sub-Category, and Inputs, showing budgeted vs actual costs and quantities, for a Crop Year.
Transport Cost Report
To see actual costs of transporting grain. This report uses the transport cost matrix to determine transport cost rate against field to storage, field to customer, transfer tickets, and storage to customer tickets.
Land Cost by Field: Plan / Actual
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Plan: Filter by Crop Year, Name (Field Name), and/or Farm to see by Field the Contract Acres, Rate per Acre, and the Planned Total of land costs. These costs will appear as a direct expense on your Profit and Loss Plan and Variance reports.
Plan: Filter by Crop Year, Name (Field Name), and/or Farm to see by Field the Contract Acres, Rate per Acre, and the Planned Total of land costs. These costs will appear as a direct expense on your Profit and Loss Plan and Variance reports.
Actual: Filter by Crop Year, Name (Field Name), and/or Farm to see by Field the Contract Acres, Rate per Acre, and the Actual Total of land costs recorded in Conservis. These costs will appear as a direct expense on your Profit and Loss Actual and Variance reports.