allocating cost accounts

I find this situation intriguing.



As a relative new-comer to this field, I was taught that cost accounts are an intersection of the work breakdown structure (WBS) and organisational breakdown structure (OBS). The situation described here sounds like the WBS is intersecting with the OBS twice. Shouldn’t the WBS be decomposed further?



OK, theory and practice don’t always align. I’d be interested in other’s opinions.



Scott

np 8)

Next time you will put the costa ccounts in from the start ;)



an idea;



export resource per activity detail including cost accounts to Excel

In Excel, change the cost accounts as you need

AND add a prefix to all resource codes in excel (RES becomes NEWRES for example)

Reimport



Now you should have 2 sets of resources on each activity, one with no cost codes (RES) and one with the cost codes on (NEWRES), the new ones will all have a prefix and the correct cost code. Now;



Delete the old resource codes in P3.



You may need to go through and manually reset the resource code, if you want to get rid of the prefix.



Another way is to delete all resources in P3 once you have made the export, then you shouldn’t get duplication.



Remeber, back up before you do any of this!