Microsoft KB Archive/68154

How Project Calculates Summary Level Percent Complete

PSS ID Number: Q68154 Article last modified on 10-20-1995

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= SUMMARY =

Project for Windows and Macintosh calculates Summary Level Percent Complete based on a summary’s subordinate tasks. This percentage is then used to calculate the summary level Budgeted Cost Work Performed or Earned Value.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Summary Level Percent Complete is based on the Total Actual Days Complete and the Total Days Remaining for the subordinate tasks. This calculation is done in the following manner:

Total Actual/(Total Actual + Total Remaining)

Please note that at the individual task level, Budgeted Cost Work Performed is calculated correctly (that is, BCWP=%Complete*Budgeted Actual Cost ).

Note the following:

The Summary Level Percent Complete can also be calculated as follows:

  Summary level BCWP = Sum(BCWPn+BCWPn+BCWPn+BCWPn) Where “n” designates appropriate task number.   Summary level Percent Complete = summary level BCWP/summary level BAC. 

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