Displaying Estimated and Actual Costs on a Gantt Chart - Proj 2007

[Django]

Appreciate it if someone could tell me how to enter estimated cost and the
actual cost on a Gantt Chart. I tried using Cost and Actual Cost, but they
just keep over-riding each other. I tried using Baseline Cost but it does not
tally the cost. Seems the Baseline Cost Column is in text. Hope someone can
make sense out of what I am asking.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Django,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Project assumes that if you have entered an Actual Cost then this is now the
Cost - seems reasonable to me. Baseline Cost is produced as a snapshot of
what the cost is at the time of creating the baseline, and Project won't
change that - seems reasonable to me! You should therefore be able to show
Actual Cost and Baseline Cost.

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this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
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[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Did you Set the baseline before entering Actuals?
Tools, tracking, Set baseline

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[vanita]

Hi Django

In addition to others' advice.

By default 'Actual Cost' data is calculated by the software. To enable the
option to input 'Actual Cost' data yourself go to Tools > Options >
Calculation > check out the option 'Actual costs are always calculated by
Microsoft Office Project'.

I hope it helps.
Vanita