Cost Loading in P5?

Hi Richard,

There are 3 ways of entering the budget in P5. One is WBS level and the other two are in activity level. In activity level you can enter budget cost directly to budget field by selecting Labor Cost, Non-Labor Cost and Material Cost under status tab and budget expenses under expenses tab. The best way of entering budget cost is using resources level under resources tab. On resource level you can assign cost account. If resource level is used, it overrides the budget entered into status tab. You can assign resources cost as defined under resources setup (Enterprise-> Resources) wether Labor, Non Labor and Material. Expenses are only entered on expenses tab and will not show on resource module. The Total Budget column is the sum of Budget Labor Cost, Budget Non Labor Cost, Budget Material Cost and Expenses per activity. The WBS level budget have separate budget field and not added to total budget column. You can enter cost without assigning to cost account. Cost account is another grouping module in P5 which is just an option to use. You can produce your cost report using WBS level, Activity Code Level, Resource Group level and Cost Account level. Any of these breakdown structure are very useful if setup properly to have a meaningful report. It’s up to the user which levels or grouping to use when producing a report.

Hope these make sense and answer your query.

Regards,
Rodel

I was looking to add a cost account budget at cost account (CA)level but I guess this is not possible?

Thanks Brad but I wanted to see if I could have actual v budget for CAs like you can do for WBS.