Cost
One cost dashboard that adds up cost assignments, resource assignments and activity fixed costs without double-counting them.
Who it is for. Whoever has to answer "are we over budget, and by how much" at a status meeting. Less relevant to a solo planner with no cost data loaded.
What it is for
Project cost arrives from three places — cost-type assignments, resource assignments, and fixed cost typed onto activities — and naively summing them double-counts an activity whose fixed cost is actually staffed by resources. This screen reconciles all three into one categorised breakdown.
Awaiting capture — WF32-BOP
Earned-value dashboard populated.
What it does
Every line below is in the product today.
Three sources, one number
Cost assignments, resource assignments and activity fixed costs merged into a single cost-item set.
The double-count guard
Each activity’s resource spend is subtracted from its fixed cost, so staffed work is never counted twice. The time-phase engine applies the same rule, so the two agree.
Resource spend split by type
Labour, material and equipment broken out as their own categories rather than pooled into one resource line.
Collapsible category breakdown
Budgeted, committed, actual, variance and percent used, per category and per line, with a totals row.
Cost traces back to a real activity
Lines label their activity by its Activity ID, so a cost points at a specific activity rather than a name that may be duplicated.
It reads and writes with
Cost Assignments
Allocate budgeted cost to activities, WBS elements or the project, and track it from planned through committed to paid.
Resource Assignments
Staff the schedule and see, period by period, where demand exceeds what your people can actually supply — with baseline, actual, remaining and scenario on the same axis.
Time-Phase
Spread cost and units across periods with a choice of distribution curve, and read it as a histogram, an S-curve or a P6-style spread matrix.
See it on your own schedule.
Send an XER before the call and we will import it and show you Cost running against your data.