The CVR is always a month behind

The CVR is honest work done too late. Costs land in the accounts weeks after they were committed, values get retyped from the surveyors' sheets, the reconciliation is done by eye, and by the time the document circulates it describes a job that has since bought materials, taken an instruction and lost a fortnight to weather. Decisions get made on it anyway, because it is the only picture there is.

The lag is in the assembly, not the people, and assembly can be rebuilt: the CVR drawing its costs and values from the places they already live, the roll-up automated out of copy-and-paste, the reconciliation reduced to reviewing exceptions instead of retyping everything. The report starts describing the job as it is, which is the only version worth steering with.