Building a Budget

[Laurel]

I want to be able to build my entire budget in project including the consultants travel expenses, airfare, hotel, rental car, etc.

Thank you!

 

[Steve House]

And your question about how to do that is?

Their time is costed by the rate for standard and overtime in the
resource definition. The other costs can be done either as material
resources or entered and totaled on an Excel worksheet with the total
linked into the project plan as a fixed cost entry for the relevant
taskm using the "copy" "paste link" tools.


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I want to be able to build my entire budget in project including the

consultants travel expenses, airfare, hotel, rental car, etc.

 

[John Beamish]

Your consultants' rates can be part of the data entry in View | Resource
sheet.

Expenses, airfare, hotel, etc. can be materials resources which you can
accrue in various ways (prorated, front, end) Linking specific "materials
resources" to a specific consultant will be awkward if you try to
intermingle them with tasks. I would have a section at the beginning or end
(I'd choose the end) of the plan to hold these items and I would give them
task names that identify the consultant name and expense type.

If you want to include budget cost codes then you could use one of the Text
fields to hold that information. You will likely run into "difficulties" if
you try to allocate parts of an expense to multiple cost centres but if you
keep things "vanilla" then you should be successful.

JLB, PMP

I want to be able to build my entire budget in project including the

consultants travel expenses, airfare, hotel, rental car, etc.