Destini Fees Calculation with Distribution Error

It has come to our attention that there is a potential challenge when Distributing fees to the cost of work within the fee editor in Destini.

Destini in its current configuration can show an incorrect Final Total ONLY during a specific series of events in Fees Editor:

The Cause

Within one of those Fee Distributions, the WBS chosen to be spread back to is not a valid choice. Either the WBS value does not exist in the cost of work or that WBS value does not have costs associated with it.
- When you have an invalid distribution an exclamation point in a yellow triangle next to the distribute box check appears. Eg:

The Error

The Final Total in the Fees Editor does not include the Fee Total for the Fee line item that has the error. Ie: the Final Total will be incorrect from what is expected.

Screenshot of an example of the case without the error. Note how the Final Total value includes all Fee Totals.

Screenshot of an example of the case with the error. Note how the Final Total value is now short the $2,431,574.67 fee line item.

Even though the line item is still in the list and the checkbox to the right is still checked on.

How to Avoid

RUN one of our custom reports. This will always be a source of truth for you EVEN IF you have the error:
- When running the report with “Distribute Fees?” selector un-checked

Ie:

The math will ALWAYS be correct even though you still have the error in Destini.

Note: the above report was run WITH the error in Destini still in Fee Editor but not distributing fees.

Ie:

The reports WILL create feedback prompt and tell you specifically when there is a fee that has an invalid distribution. That feedback from the report looks like this:

FIX THE ERROR:
- Correct the WBS assignment error that is causing the invalid distribution.

IN ALL CASES:

ALWAYS RUN a report to VALIDATE your number before issuing any values outside of the company.