Skip takes one scheduled expenditure out of your study without deleting the component or its activity. Use it when a board defers a project by one cycle.
What it does
The skipped row stays in the Expenditures list, grayed out and struck through, so you can see what was skipped.
It drops out of your expenditure totals, your funding plans (including the year detail) and the report's expenditure tables.
The rest of the component's schedule is unchanged. Only the cycle you skip is affected.
Click it again to bring it back.
How to skip an expenditure
Open the study in the Study Editor and click Expenditures in the left menu.
Make sure List View is selected.
Find the expenditure and click the Skip expenditure icon at the end of its row.
The row turns gray and struck through. The Grand Total shows the old total struck through beside the new one.
Click the Save Analysis icon in the top bar.
How to bring it back
On the skipped row, click the Undo skip icon.
Click the Save Analysis icon in the top bar.
How it shows in the report
In the Annual Reserve Expenditure Budget Projection table, the Next Activity column names the skipped cycle, for example 2036 (2031 skipped). If every later cycle is skipped, it shows N/A with the skipped years, for example N/A (2046 skipped).
Good to know
You cannot skip an expenditure when its activity has a set number of Occurrences (1 to 10). The icon is grayed out and says Cannot skip when cycle limit is set. Skip works on Recurring and One Time activities.
Skipping changes the funding math, not just the totals. The study stops saving toward the skipped cycle, so Fully Funded Balance and Percent Funded can change.
Like any change in the Study Editor, a skip is saved when you click Save Analysis.
The skip icon is only in List View, not Matrix View.