We are using dedicated agile product teams and are moving away from formal project management and timesheets. We are using JIRA and are looking for a way to track CapEx. I have found formulas to compute these numbers but was wondering if there is a way to tag work in JIRA to indicate that it is CapEx or OpEx?
I need more info to be able to offer effective ideas I expect. What do you mean by track opex/capex? Do you want to simply filter on issues that involve these or do you want to total expenditures. For the former you could do this via uniques issuetypes or a custom field or maybe components would work.
I don’t see Jira as a effective tool for reporting financial details but it might meet your needs. Too, an addon like EasyBI might come in handy here.
Thank you for your quick reply. What we were hoping to do was to tag issues that should be capitalized (CapEx), ask the resource to record the number of hours for that issue, and then be able to provide our accounting department with a traceable number of hours charged to capitalized tasks per product type.
So you can do this OOTB.
issue assignees must select the correct values. Then you can generate reports leveraging these fields.
Thank you - we will try that.
If you use Tempo and setup Accounts you can accomplish this. We are currently using this for our CapEx reporting along with EazyBI. We have gone from traditional waterfall to agile. Our PdM's or PO's will set the account field. We discovered we needed to make this a required field as well. We found this to be more accurate than using the Teams function in Tempo.
You can use Quantify to automatically track development time and then use the full power of JQL to query tickets marked as Capex. This can be a custom field, label or any other combination. Data can be exported and provided to accounting with the ability to trace down the numbers.
We are setting up Tempo right now and transitioning from waterfall to Agile. I would like to hear more about how you set this up. Tempo seems to allow only one Account code to be active on a Project. We have a default Expense code, and for Capital projects we assign the capital code when we have a DLE estimate, which is derived from estimates at the User Story level. Any advise or suggestions you have would be GREATLY appreciated.
I came for this answer. We have a couple of issues that could be R&D and CapEx—if I understand them correctly—but Tempo only allows one account per issue. Interested to see how others are handling this.
Hi,
One way a customer of ours solves this is to create jira custom select fields called Capex with a Yes/No value. Then this is selected for every ticket. They also add a WBSO filed for tax credits reference and R&D custom select filed with values for each ticket
At the end since they needed to send a custom EXCEL report to their finance department containing only the JIRA Data they needed plus the location-city of the person that is logging hours they chose our app - Timescale to do that.
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