The terms below are used in Invantive Estate. The names follow the English texts of the product. - Account manager: the person who looks after the relationship with an organisation. Also a role on a project. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Organisations and Persons|Organisations and Persons]]. - Additional business rule: a rule added to the application by the application manager, for example to calculate a sequence number with a counter. - Allocation: see project allocation. - Budget: the approved set-up of expected costs and revenues to realise a project within those costs and revenues. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Budgets|Budgets]]. - Budget control: the placing and grouping of costs and revenues within the budget. - Budget movement: a transfer of budget from one cost type to another within a project. - Cash flow projection: the spreading of the amounts of a project over time, to work out the net present value. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Cash Flow Projections|Cash Flow Projections]]. - Classification: a label that can be linked to a project, organisation, process, document or person. - Contract: an agreement between two parties, with a code. The code `0` is not allowed. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Orders and Contracts|Orders and Contracts]]. - Contract budget: the part of the budget of a cost type that is available for one contract. - Cost centre: a part of the organisation to which costs can be attributed, usually a department. - Cost type, cost category: the category on which an amount is registered, such as "purchase of land". See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Cost Types|Cost Types]]. - Cost type postfix: the suffix that keeps the cost types of sub projects apart in consolidated reports. - Deviation: the difference between the prognosis and the budget. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Deviation and Prognosis|Deviation and Prognosis]]. - Draft invoice line: an invoice line prepared for the financial administration, entered by hand or generated from hours and process units. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Invoices|Invoices]]. - Exposé: the approved budget with which a project starts. - Expectation: a cost still to come that is not in the current prognosis. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Latest Estimates and Expectations|Latest Estimates and Expectations]]. - Function: a screen or report that a user can request, and to which rights are granted. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Security|Security]]. - Hours: the time registered on a project or process. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Hours|Hours]]. - Invoice line: a line of an invoice that reflects a realised revenue or a cost driver. - Involvement: the tie of a person or organisation to a project, process, document or organisation, with an involvement role. - Land status: the state of the land of a project, such as "ready for construction". - Latest estimate: a cost still to come that is not covered by an order. - Master project: a project that consolidates the figures of its sub projects and has none of its own. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Project|Project]]. - Master roll up: the most general grouping of cost types, of the type costs, revenues or results. - Net present value: the present value of the cash flows of a project. - Order: a commitment to a supplier to deliver goods or services. - Organisation: a customer, supplier, project entity or other party. - Partition: a part of the data of an installation for one company or group. See [[Invantive Studio/Repository/Concepts/Partition|Partition]]. - Person: a physical person who uses the product or whose data is registered in it. - Process: an activity to follow up, such as a task on a project, an approval of an invoice or the sale of a unit. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Processes|Processes]]. - Process unit: a unit used to complete a process, with a status. - Product: a type of unit, such as residence, parking place, office or shop. - Product group: a grouping of projects by theme or of products by sales conditions. - Profile option: a setting with a value per installation, per role or per user. - Prognosis at end of work: the expected revenues minus the expected costs. - Project: a related amount of work, usually consisting of a number of real estate units. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Project|Project]]. - Project allocation: the assignment of a person to a project for a period. - Project authorisation: the right of one user on one project. - Project entity: the legal structure in which a project is realised. - Project version: a snapshot of a project at a reporting date. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Project Versions|Project Versions]]. - Provision: an amount on a cost type that serves as a reserve. - Release deviation: a setting that lets a positive remainder count in the deviation. - Revenue: a unit that is sold or rented out as part of a project, with its expected income. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Revenues and Units|Revenues and Units]]. - Role: a function in the organisation to which rights are granted. - Roll up: the grouping of cost types below a master roll up. - Sub project: a project that has its own financial data and can be consolidated into a master project. - Supplier: an organisation that delivers goods or services in exchange for money and can carry out an order. - Timesheet status: the state of an hour registration, which decides what may be changed. - Type of labour: the kind of work, which groups hours. - Unit: an independent object of a product. See [[Invantive Estate/Concepts/Revenues and Units|Revenues and Units]].