Costpoint Online Help

Contents of the Burdened Cost Breakdown Screen

Use this screen to display burdened costs charged or budgeted to the selected project, or variances of burdened costs and budget charged to the project, by category (for example, Labor, Materials, Subcontracts, Travel, and so forth) for the last seven accounting periods, or if you are viewing future budgets, the next seven accounting periods.

Note: You must provide information for all enabled fields in order for the report to run as expected, else an error message displays.

Contents

Field Description
Report Type

Select the type of report you want to display. Choose from the following options:

  • Cost: Select this option to display burdened costs charged to the selected project.
  • Budget: Select this option to display burdened costs budgeted to the selected project.
  • Variance: Select this option to display variances of burdened costs and budget charged to the selected project.
  • What If: Select this option if you want to compare the actual cost of a project to a budget/EAC version, or to compare one budget/EAC version to another. If you select this option, the versions you want to compare display on the Burdened Cost subtask.

If you select Budget or Variance, only budget/EAC versions that are marked as final on the Project Budgets / EACs screen are included in the report.

If you select Variance or What If, the Source column, which contains the budget type, version number, and version code of a budget/EAC, displays on the Burdened Cost, and All Periods subtasks.

Burdened Cost

Select this check box to display combined burned cost details.

If you select this check box and the Report Type is Budget, the Source column, which contains the budget type, version number, and version code of a budget/EAC, displays on the Burdened Cost subtask.

All Periods

Select this check box to display combined details for all periods.

If you select this check box and the Report Type is Budget, the Source column, which contains the budget type, version number, and version code of a budget/EAC, displays on the All Periods subtask.

Budget Type

If you selected the Budget or Variance report type, select one of the following from the drop-down list:

  • Budget: Select this option to display the latest budget information.
  • EAC: Select this option to display the latest EAC information.  
Note: EAC displays in the drop-down list only if an EAC exists for the project.
Timing

Under Timing, select one of the following timing options:

  • Past: Select Past to display seven accounting periods in the past.
  • Future: Select Future to display seven accounting periods in the future.
Project ID

Enter, or click to select, the project ID.

Comparisons

Field Description
Compare

Enter, or click to select, the atual cost or the budget/EAC of a project that you want to compare.

with

Enter, or click to select, the atual cost or the budget/EAC of a project that you want to compare.

Subtasks

After you select the Project ID and set other report options, click to populate the subtasks. To display lower-level details, choose from the following links:

  • Burdened Cost: Click this link to display burdened cost breakdown details for Category, Account, Resource, and Source in a single table. Select this option if you want the report to include all levels of detail.
  • All Periods: Click this link to display only the burdened cost breakdown account details. After the table opens, a link for the next level down displays. Each table you open includes a link to the next level down.