Hi All,
Does anyone know if it's possible to have a negative value against a income / cost?
Reason for wanting to do this, is that I have an a highway maintenance contract where the client has given us anticipated spends against a list of tasks, but the actual spend was less. Rather than go through and adjust all the anticiapted spends, I was hoping to insert a new task with a negative value against it which represented the sum of the underspend.
Kind Regards,
Chris
Hi Chris,
Whilst I agree with Craig's suggestion, for reference you can't have a negative cost. If you try entering one, Asta Powerproject will chuck up a warning stating the value must be greater than zero. That is the point of the alternative income field within Asta - other software which has no concept of income does allow you to have a negative cost but only to get around that deficency.
So I guess you could use the income field to record the underspend...? As the net amount would therefore be orginial cost less the underspend...? Sounds messy though.
Cheers,
Ben @ Asta
Hi Chris,
Wouldn't you just enter actual cost so you could use Asta cost functions?
Kind regards,
Craig