Skip to main content
Checked against the product · 2026-10-05

Where Your Financial Data Comes From

Every figure in Arcvue traces to a source. Knowing which source is behind a number tells you two things: how much to trust it, and how fresh it is. This page maps the provenance of the financial data across FP&A.

Actuals vs. forecast​

Arcvue blends two kinds of data in one view:

  • Actuals are real, closed-book numbers. On every financial statement, months at or before your books-close date are actuals.
  • Forecast is the platform's projection for the months after the close date — computed from your contract forecasts, indirect-cost forecasts, and new-business targets.

A visible boundary separates the two on the statements: forecast months are shaded, and the first forecast month starts a marked divider, so you always know which side of the line a number is on. An unshaded month is an actual booked to the general ledger, so a wrong figure there is corrected in the ledger, not on the statement.

Where the actuals come from​

Closed-month actuals come from your ERP source: the accounting system of record you select in Admin (see Connecting Your ERP Source). That can be an external accounting system or Arcvue Accounting, Arcvue's own product. Either way, Arcvue reads your general-ledger detail on a regular sync, so the actuals are as fresh as that last sync.

When your history is already posted in Arcvue Accounting while an external ERP feed still runs day to day, an admin can point the statements at the Arcvue Accounting book directly (Statements Source under ERP Connection in Tenant Configuration). The Income Statement, Balance Sheet and contract actuals are then rebuilt from the posted book on every sync, for every period it holds, and the external feed keeps supplying everything else until it is switched off.

The same source feeds the operational views:

  • Open receivables and payables, payroll, revenue, and direct-labor history flow from that accounting system into Treasury's cash forecast.
  • Indirect-rate actuals are computed from the same ledger. When you run Arcvue Accounting, your Rate Targets align with the provisional rates the accounting engine computes and submits to DCAA — one rate structure, not two.
  • Per-contract revenue and cost are assembled for the contract portfolio from the same actuals.

The figures you enter yourself​

A few numbers are yours to set, and they are exactly as current as your last entry:

  • Bank balance in Treasury — the cash forecast opens from your bank feed when the feed is at least as recent as the balance you last entered, and from your entered balance otherwise. With neither, it opens from the GL cash position. The Summary says which source it used, so a typed balance never silently outranks a newer feed.
  • Manual overrides and assumptions — one-off P&L overrides, balance-sheet drivers (days sales outstanding, days payable outstanding, minimum cash), and your indirect-pool configuration.

What the model estimates​

Forward-looking figures the platform projects rather than reads:

  • Projected billings and future vendor spend in Treasury (its "Layer 2") — trustworthy in aggregate rather than to the dollar in any single week.
  • The multi-year rate trend and the three-statement projection, driven by your forecast inputs.

Each of these is labeled where it appears — confidence bands in Treasury, the actuals/forecast boundary on the statements — so provenance is never hidden.

One source per number​

Arcvue keeps a single authoritative source for each field. Actuals are never hand-edited into the statements; corrections are made at the source — in your accounting system — and flow back on the next sync. That discipline is what lets the numbers tie out across modules and stand up to an audit.

  • Connecting Your ERP Source — choose the accounting system Arcvue reads your actuals from.
  • Income Statement, Financial Statements, Treasury, Rate Targets — each module's own "where the numbers come from" section.