Tracking Costs

[Patrizio]

A customer would like to track several costs at the date they are spent.
In MS Project only one default cost field is timephased, but custom cost
fields aren't timephased.
In MS Project 2007 cost resources are timephased but are summarized in the
default cost field for the task/project.
The only way we found to track several costs (not summarized) is to define
a milestone to set the date and to set custom cost fields, but the WBS will
be heavily affected.
Is there any other way to do it ?

 

[Rod Gill]

In 2007 you have Cost Resources. In the Resource Sheet, set the resource
type from Work to Cost

In the task or Resource Usage View, in the timephased part show Actual cost.
Now you can enter timephased actual costs.

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Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com

 

[Patrizio]

True, cost resources are timephased.
But all the cost resources are summarized in one total cost for the
task/project.
Customer need to track these costs distinct, not summarized in one total cost.