Consumable Allocation Properties dialog - Cost/Income tab

You use the Cost/Income tab of the Consumable Allocation Properties dialog to maintain details of the cost and income of the selected consumable resource allocation. When you assign a resource to a task, the cost of the resource is calculated from its defaults. Consumable resources can be associated with costs, income, or both.

Explanation of the fields on the dialog

Field	Description
Total cost	The cost per unit multiplied by the number of units assigned to the task, plus any cost per use. For example, if a task uses 100 units with each unit costing £1 and there is a delivery charge of £20, the total cost of the consumable resource allocation is £120.
Total income	The income per unit multiplied by the number of units assigned to the task, plus any income per use.
Cost per use	Enter any cost that is incurred when the resource is assigned to the task. For example, there may be a delivery charge which is the same whether you are delivering 100 or 1000 units. If you want to represent a negative cost, you can enter a negative value in this field. Representing negative cost and income
Income per use	Enter any income that is generated when the resource is assigned to the task. If you want to represent a negative income, you can enter a negative value in this field.
Cost per unit	Enter the cost that is incurred by each unit of the consumable resource in this allocation. If you want to represent a negative cost, you can enter a negative value in this field.
Income per unit	Enter the income that is generated by each unit of the consumable resource in this allocation. If you want to represent a negative income, you can enter a negative value in this field.
Income as % of cost	If Income per unit is calculated as a percentage of Cost per unit, enter the percentage by which the cost should be multiplied to calculate the income. For example, if the Income per unit is twice the Cost per unit, enter 200.00. This field is ignored if you enter a specific amount in the Income per unit field.
Expenditure cost centre	Select the cost centre from which the allocation's costs are deducted. Click Properties to view and edit the details of the cost centre.
Income cost centre	Select the cost centre in which the allocation's income is stored. Click Properties to view and edit the details of the cost centre.
Budgeted cost	A field primarily intended for use in projects that have been imported from, or that are intended to be exported to, Primavera® software. In Primavera software, the Budgeted cost field can be used to record the budget cost of items without the need to use a baseline. When you import a project from Primavera software, resource and cost allocation information from this field in Primavera software is imported into this field in Asta Powerproject. You can view and edit this field against resource and cost allocations; the value is calculated for tasks and bars by summing the budgeted cost of the tasks' and bars' allocations. You can choose to calculate a number of earned value fields using the budgeted cost that has been recorded in this field rather than using a value from a baseline. Although this field is primarily intended for use in projects that have been imported from, or that are intended to be exported to, Primavera software, you may also find it useful in other projects, as a simple way of recording the budget cost of items without the need to use a baseline. If you want to represent a negative cost, you can enter a negative value in this field.

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