Re: Cost resource type

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Hi Dale,

Thank you for the speedy reply.

Can you give me an example of how I would use this in anything else???
Everywhere I read uses the "travel" example. I'm still foggy with that
example and I feel my students will be too -- especially those in
manufacturing who don't travel.

Thanks again!!

Eric

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:

Eric --

Pretend that you have a project in which a number of tasks require the
assigned resources to travel. This generates travel expenses for the
project and you would like to see a running total of all travel expenses in
the project. For this purpose, you could use a Fixed Cost for each task,
but the Fixed Cost column does not "roll up" to the Project Summary Task, so
you can't see a running total. Instead, use an Expense Cost resource called
Travel Expenses and assign the resource to every task involving travel.
Enter the actual travel expenses on the Cost Resource on each task and you
can then see a running total in the Resource Usage view. Hope this helps.

--
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"thpyeman" <thpyeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi everyone,

I looked around for an hour for an "easy" explanation -- couldn't find it
so
here goes:

I need an "easy, non-Microsoft speak" version/explanation of what the Cost
Resource Type is for. An example would be helpful too.

I understand Work and material resources.....it seems to me that a Cost
resource is just a way to track what *I* would interpret as a fixed cost
(the
cost of 'doing' the task). But it seems that this "cost resource" allows
you
to plug in the cost of doing the resource "after the fact" -- just like
plugging it into fixed cost would do too....

.....help?

Eric.



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