Project 2013 Intermediate

Lesson 3 – Assigning Costs

Project 2013

V IEWING R ESOURCE C OSTS

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Discussion

You can view cost information regarding each resource using the Resource Usage view with the Cost table applied. The columns that appear are Cost , Baseline Cost , Variance , Actual Cost , and Remaining . The following table describes each of these columns in detail:

Column

Description

Cost

Total cost for a resource for all assignments.

Baseline Cost

Total costs planned for a resource for all assignments.

Variance

The difference between the baseline cost and the scheduled (total) cost. Once a project baseline has been saved, a negative variance number indicates that the cost is under budget and a positive variance number indicates the cost is over budget. Total cost for the work already performed by a resource. Total costs that will be incurred by completing the work that has yet to be performed by a resource.

Actual Cost

Remaining

Depending upon what point you are at in your project, some of these fields may not reflect cost information. For example, until you save a project baseline, the Baseline Cost field will not display costs.

You can print any table in a view. To print the table only, drag the vertical split bar to the right to hide the timeline. If you are printing a usage view, such as the Resource Usage or Task Usage views, you can add row and column totals to the printout using the View page in the Page Setup dialog box. To print column totals at the bottom of the table, enable the Print column totals option. The totals will appear on the last page of the printout. If you are printing a date range, you can add row totals to the printed table by selecting the Print row totals for values within print date range option.

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