Hi,
How Can I prepare a monthly cash flow report(Budgeted vs Actual) without resource loading in P6, only by putting the budget against each activity?
Thanks in advance
Tony
Cash Flow report without resource loading in P6
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The above example is very simple for illustration purposes but it is not unusual to have different budgets, perhaps one for purposes of Billings, and another for purpose of cost control where you will track labor, equipment, materials, subcontracts and other cost types for each cost account. In such case you level only cost accounts that define your financial constraints. The use of Cost Centers make it easy to select the account groups of concern.
thanks Tom good to know I never uses expenses
Zoltan, yes you can. Activity Usage Profile using Cost instead of Units incorporates all the Expense tab data.
I am not sure that you can get an S curve using expenses
you can use Expenses to load cost on all activities you want,
add one expense on an activity then export on excel then add the cost and import it again on primavera.
I'd agree that cost loading is most commonly done through resource loading of a lump-sum resource as Zoltan has laid out. The restriction, "...without resource loading in P6...." can be strictly satisfied by loading costs through the Expenses tab. Although this is not the stated purpose of the Expenses tab, some contract specifications explicitly require it (not sure why.)
add a resource call LUMPSUM or what ever
filter for all of the activities that you want to cost load
select edit select all
right click and select assign
then select resources
then select the new resource that you created
now in the resource tab under budgeted cost
assign the cost for each of teh actyivities
when done you can either select view show on bottom activity usage spreadsheet
or view show on bottom resource usage profile thsi will give you your cost curve
How can I prepare a report with dollars for each activity?
putting the budget against each activity is resource loading its loading with dollars not manhours