autocost for expenses in p5
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Does it help to know that expenses are "autocosted" according to the activitys "planned" dates, not their "early" dates"
Hi Faik,
A couple of other quick things that you could possible consider are:
1) You have the "Apply Actuals" privlege set as part of your project security profile,
2) The project is checked in & active,
3) You have resources assigned (that also have the auto-compute actuals checked) to the activities that you are planning on updating via the "Apply Actuals" function in the tools menu (I dont think it works otherwise), alternatively, another option is to use the view => progress spotlight and then tools => Update Progress... to progress your activities. I havent actually done this so I will be very interested in your results
Hi Mark
thank you very much, as i remember i attemted also apply actuals menu but nothing changed. i ll try it again.
regards
Hi Faik,
If the auto compute acutals option is selected in the check box, the actual/remaining cost are automatically updated when project actuals are applied via the => Tools => Apply Actuals menu. This assumes that the expenses have been accured according to plan.
Note; If you also have any resources with the auto compute actuals check box selected, they will also be updated according to plan.
Without actually doing it myself, If I were aiming to update the expense % complete, my personal recommendation would be to export the activity datas activity % complete to an excel spreadsheet, and then also export the expenses to excel and then I would perform a "lookup" function to apply the activity % complete to the expense % complete.
Hope that this helps
Kind Regards
Mark Porter
i already did it but it doesnt work. strange. may be it is impossible for expenses
Hi.
You might need to choose the "Accrual type" of Expense to "Uniform over Activity".