Permanent Allocation Properties dialog - Cost/Income tab

You use the Cost/Income tab of the Permanent Allocation Properties dialog to maintain details of the cost and income of the selected permanent resource allocation. Permanent resource costs and income are determined by rates. For example, a consultant might have a normal rate and an overtime rate. When you assign a permanent resource to a task, the cost and income is calculated from the resource's default rates. You use this tab to edit the defaults for the selected resource allocation. Permanent resources can be associated with costs, income, or both.

To access the Permanent Allocation Properties dialog, right-click a permanent resource allocation and select Properties. Alternatively, open an assignment view for a task, right-click a permanent resource and select Properties.

Field/Button Description
Total cost The total cost of the resource allocation.
Total income The total income of the resource allocation.
Assigned cost/income rates A list of the cost and income rates that are currently assigned to the resource allocation. Click a rate in the list to select it.
Assign Rate Click this button to assign a new cost and income rate to the allocation.
Unassign Rate Click this button to unassign the selected cost and income rate from the allocation.
New Rate Click this button to create a new cost and income rate. The new rate appears in the Available cost/income rates field, with the cursor flashing in the Name column.
Available cost/income rates A list of the cost and income rates that are available to be assigned to the allocation.
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.

How do I...

  1. Click Assign Rate.
  2. Select the rate you want to assign in the Assigned cost/income rates field.
  1. Select the rate you want to remove in the Assigned cost/income rates field.
  2. Click Unassign Rate.
  1. Click New Rate. A new rate appears in the Available cost/income rates field, with the cursor flashing in the Name column.
  2. Enter a name to apply to the cost and income rate then press Enter.
  3. Use the columns in the Available cost/income rates field to specify the properties of the new rate, or right-click the rate and select Properties to view the Cost and Income Rate Properties dialog.

Enter an amount in the Budgeted cost field.

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.

This dialog may or may not display a number of tabs that contain advanced functionality. Click More >>> to display all of this dialog's tabs, or click Less <<< to hide the advanced tabs from view.

Related Topics:

Working with dialogs

Cost and income rates

Editing resource allocations

Working with permanent resource costs

Representing negative cost and income

Viewing cost information