Budgeted Expense Cost & Budgeted Labor Cost

Hi Suhaila,

In P6, Budget Expense Cost are usually the Preliminaries cost item in the project such as Project Overheads, Office Hire, Travels, Office cost, safety...etc. You can define your Expenses dictionaries under Admin--> Admin Categories--> Expenses Categories : See example below:

You can enter your budget Expenses on Activity under Details-->Expenses Tab. You can also assign a Cost Account if you are using P6 Cost Account features and defined the cost account categories. On this tab also where you can track/ update and enter actual expenses for each reporting cycle/ cut-off update of your schedule.

Budget Labor Cost is where you enter the all the labor components cost such as Indirect and Direct Cost belong to Project.
Budget Non-Labor Cost  is where you enter the all the non-labor components cost such as machine, tools, cranes, loader, franna,...etc, plant & equipment Cost belong to Project.
Budget Materials Cost is where you enter all the materials and major/ minor equipment, instrument purchased for the project.

Depending on the settings, units are may or may not required for entering budget Cost. If you de-link the Unit and Cost (Under Project [window] --> Detail--> Calculations Tab--> Update units when costs change on resouce assignment "not tick" and under Resource Assignment--> Calculate Cost from Units "not tick") then you don't need the labor or non-labor units.

Mr Rodel Marasigan

Thank u so much for the reply & knowledge sharing