The Finance section at the project level in Adobe Workfront is specifically designed to track and display financial metrics. It provides a consolidated view of budgeted versus actual costs, including labor costs which are derived from hours. This section calculates and displays variances between the planned budget (Budgeted Hours/Cost) and the actual effort (Actual Hours/Cost), allowing a project manager to see financial performance and discrepancies for specific timeframes, such as the current week.

A. Utilization section: This section focuses on resource capacity and allocation by comparing planned hours against user availability, not on the financial variance between budgeted and actual hours.

B. Hours tab: This tab is primarily for logging and viewing the raw data of actual hours spent on project tasks. It does not inherently display calculated budget variances.

1. Adobe Workfront Documentation

"Manage project finances": The Finance sub-tab on a project is the designated area to "view financial information for the project. You can view information about budgeted and actual labor costs

as well as planned and actual expenses and revenues for a project." This section explicitly contains fields like "Budgeted Labor Cost

" "Actual Labor Cost

" and "Labor Cost Variance

" which directly address the user's need. (Reference: Adobe Experience League

Manage project finances

Section: "The Finance sub-tab").

2. Adobe Workfront Documentation

"View logged hours in a project": This document clarifies that the Hours tab is used to "view all the hours logged for the project" and "add new hours for the project." It serves as a repository for actual time entries

which are then used in calculations shown elsewhere

like the Finance section. (Reference: Adobe Experience League

View logged hours in a project

Section: "Access requirements").

3. Adobe Workfront Documentation

"View resource utilization information": This source explains that utilization information is used to "compare the number of planned hours for a user with their available hours during a specific time." This confirms its purpose is resource capacity management

not financial variance analysis. (Reference: Adobe Experience League

View resource utilization information

Overview section).