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Contents of the All Cost Breakdown Screen

Tip: Use this screen to display total costs or total budgeted burdened costs charged to 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.

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 total costs charged to the selected project for the last seven accounting periods.
  • Budget: Select this option to display total budgeted burdened costs charged to the selected project for the last seven accounting periods, or if you are viewing future budgets, for the next seven periods.
  • Variance: Select this option to display variances of burdened costs and budget charged to the selected project for the last seven accounting periods.
  • 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 All Cost Breakdown 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 All Cost Breakdown, and All Periods subtasks.

All Cost

Select this check box to display combined all 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 All Cost Breakdown 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 Type, select one of the following from the drop-down list:

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

If you selected the Budget or Variance report type, 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:

  • All Cost Breakdown: Click this link to display all cost breakdown details for Category, Account, Resource, and Source.
  • All Periods: Click this link to display total budgeted burdened costs charged to the project by cost category for all accounting periods.