AC in Earned Value Analysis
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Mike RobertsMember for 16 years 7 months
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Hi there,
Has anyone experienced to input manually Actual Cost (AC) rather than automatically being calculated by MSP to get the earned value reports?
Something really interesting happens! If you input AC manually you will have ACWP (which will be calculated automatically) different with AC. Also in Visual Report it doesn’t show BCWP and BCWS. In other words all these costs are shown to be zero. Just gives ACs. Basically MSP calculates the AC based on the resources hourly rates. Sometimes you may have expended more than the amount work times by hourly rates of each resource.
If anyone has dealt with this problem before please give me some idea.
Thanks!!
Has anyone experienced to input manually Actual Cost (AC) rather than automatically being calculated by MSP to get the earned value reports?
Something really interesting happens! If you input AC manually you will have ACWP (which will be calculated automatically) different with AC. Also in Visual Report it doesn’t show BCWP and BCWS. In other words all these costs are shown to be zero. Just gives ACs. Basically MSP calculates the AC based on the resources hourly rates. Sometimes you may have expended more than the amount work times by hourly rates of each resource.
If anyone has dealt with this problem before please give me some idea.
Thanks!!
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Oldest first- 0Trevor Rabey ·In Tools, Options, Calculation is an option "Actual Costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project"
Of this option is checked, then you cannot input Actual Cost (usually in the Tracking Table). It will be "greyed out".
But if the Actual Cost of a task was different from this, then you turn off the option and will find that you can input the Actual Cost.
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