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The Reporting and Forecasting Tool (RAFT) shows Institute Fiscal Officers what has been charged to their Cost Objects and forecasts changes to those charges based on changes in their base budget. We are working on RAFT Phase II. The live application, Phase I, is located at [https://raft-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/].



h2. Release Notes
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*h3. {_RAFT PII Release 10/03 Release_*} 

h4. Changes:
||Change || Impact |
| New Grids | This is an infrastructure change which includes the following impacts: |
| | * Keyboard navigation (When entering data, you can hit tab to go to the next field without having to use the mouse.) |
| | * Better grid performance |
| | * Better/Mutli Sorting |
| | * Column reorder (only active on some screens - ex. WOrkset Cost Object Details page) |
| New CO Balances | New Balance calculations in place. Details below |
| New Workset Balances | New Workset balances in place. Details below |

h4.Balance changes:
We have added new balance calculations when on a cost object or when looking at a workset (cost object group)

h5. Cost Object balance changes:
We have added a toggle to choose between the two balance types. The formulae used for each Balance type are:

*Budget Code Balance*: Budget - (Actuals + Commitments + Forecast) = Balance for the specified date range. Which budget used is determined by the selection of the budget code in the upper right. For most users the default Budget Code will be 'COA' for Cost Object Award.

*Institute Balance*: 
_(By Cost Object Type or Cost Collector Category Code)_
|| Cost Object Type | Balance Formula |
|Project WBS | Authorized Total - Expenses = Balance |
|Cost Center | Institute Budget - Expenses = Balance |
|Fund (Not Sponsored) (FNDNS)| Revenue + Expense = Balance |
|Internal Order (all others) | Authorized Total - expense = Balance|

Consolidated Balances include children

h5. Workset Cost Object balance changes:
We have added Insitute Balance, Institute Balance with children, Budget Code Balance,
 Budget Code balance with Children, and Authorized Total to the Workset Cost Object Details tab. 


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h2. RAFT II Milestones

* Milestones will be added here.
* Some additional release will be found on this page: [Service Transition Plan|Service Transition Plan].


h2. Learn and Contribute

* We are building white papers in [How Is RAFT Made?|MITBIZINT:How Is RAFT Made?]. We welcome your wiki comments there.


h2. Contacts

* Please direct questions about the RAFT project or for support to raft-support@mit.edu.
* You can see details for specific RAFT development teams [here|MITBIZINT:Service Transition Plan].

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