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Actual cost value added to total cost

Article ID: 169381

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
  • Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007
  • Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003
  • Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003
  • Microsoft Project 2002 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Project 2002 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Project 2000 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q169381

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project, when you enter a new value in the Actual Cost field, this value may be added to the total cost.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs if the Actual costs are always calculated by Microsoft Project option is not selected. When this option is not selected, actual costs are added to the total cost. Microsoft Project uses the following formula to determine total cost:

Total Cost = (Remaining Work * Resource Costs) + Fixed Cost + Actual Cost


NOTE: To locate this option, click Options on the Tools menu, and then click the Calculation tab.


Additional query words: PRJ2002 PRJ2003 PRJ2007 prj2000 prj98 always calculate actual work total PRJ

Keywords: kbprb kbusage KB169381