Calculating actual and remaining costs

[Gina]

I am working on a project plan that is not resource loaded. Each section has
a budget and I would like to know how to manually input actual costs but have
the remaining cost column automatically calculate the difference.

Thank you
Gina

 

[davegb]

I am working on a project plan that is not resource loaded. Each section has
a budget and I would like to know how to manually input actual costs but have
the remaining cost column automatically calculate the difference.

Thank you
Gina

The difference between what?

 

[Gina]

The difference of the budget column and the actual costs column. (the
remaining budget amount)

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Doesn't Gina refer to Budget Cost as introduced in Project 2007?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Friends --

If Gina IS using a Budget Cost resource, she can only assign it to the
Project Summary Task and must enter her project budget in the Budget Cost
field for the resource assignment on the Project Summary Task. Project 2007
does not allow you to assign Budget Cost resources to summary tasks, regular
tasks, or milestones. Furthermore, Project 2007 does not automatically
track the difference between the Budget Cost amount for the project and the
current total Cost for the project. I attempted to create a custom field to
do the calculation and the system returns $0.00 variance, even when the
Budget Cost is $50,000 and the current project Cost is $45,000. I suspect
this is one more bug in this software. Hope this additional bit helps.