PS 2007 Manual Actuals adding to Remaining Cost instead of reducin

[Rick F.]

I could really use some help on this one. I've been given a file management
wants me to fix where actual costs are being input manually to tasks from
data they are receiving from accounting and instead of reducing the task
remainnig cost, it is adding to the remainin cost. This schedule has
resources and baseline data (BL Work, BL Cost, and BL Hours) evidently
snapped off an original resource loading at some point. However, they are
using physical percent complete and not updating percent complete, so tasks
show no actual hours or actual work, but actual cost., work They are trying
to do "EVM," but finding as I am that baseline numbers don't roll-up (I
suspect somene has been manually altering baseline numbers). I can't back out
and re-baseline as total cost numbers are inflated by the manually entered
actuals. Even when I back that out, total cost will not calculate correctly
with actuals entered manually. Anyone run across this illogical behavor and
know what can be done to rectify? This has got me totally baffled a sI've
never seen anything lik this before.

 

[JulieS]

Hello Rick,

My reply about manual cost entering on another post may have
answered your question but to just quickly recap. If you de-select
the option "Actual costs are calculated by Project" entering actual
costs manually does not decrease remaining costs unless the task is
100% complete. Only after marking the task 100% complete (not
physical % complete) does the remaining cost field become available.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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