Have you looked at the Cost to Complete menus?  6-8-1, 2 or 3?  It is a tool to manipulate the % complete based on what you know to be true when your costs are lagging behind.  You do have to use the Options Update feature whenever you open the window to get the data to refresh, otherwise the budget, costs to date will be whatever you saw the last time you opened that job record.  

Have you looked at the Cost to Complete menus?  6-8-1, 2 or 3?  It is a tool to manipulate the % complete based on what you know to be true when your costs are lagging behind.  You do have to use the Options Update feature whenever you open the window to get the data to refresh, otherwise the budget, costs to date will be whatever you saw the last time you opened that job record.  

Thanks Char.  We have tried this before and it several elements that were missing.  But I am at a point where we may re-explore this feature.  thanks again!