Costs and the live cashflow

Choose the Costs columns, read the Cost summary, open View, Cashflow, flip it to Quantity, filter it, and watch it move when the schedule does; actual units fill actual cost, and the headline strip shows EAC and CPI.

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Assigned work has a price, and the price has a shape in time. The cashflow redraws itself whenever the schedule moves.

Open Columns and choose Costs: budgeted, actual, remaining, estimate at completion, variance. Filled for each assigned activity, and added up on the summary row above.

Cost summary: the project total and its WBS row; CPI waits for actual cost. Choose View, Cashflow for the live chart, built from the schedule as it stands now.

The columns are each month's money; the dashed line is the running total. The Cost button flips the chart to Quantity: units instead of dollars.

Pick Crew in the resource filter to narrow the chart; cost type, WBS and activity filter too. Lengthen Mobilise by ten days and the cashflow moves with it. Nothing to run, nothing to reload.

Enter actual units and the actual cost fills; remaining falls to match. Under the i: EAC, the expected final cost; CPI, value earned against money spent.

That was costs and the cashflow. Next in the Guide: curves and periods, and how a cost spreads over time.

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THE SERIES Beta All 55 Scheduler videos, in order, 96 min 39 s end to end.

  1. 1The Scheduler in five minutesRunning time 2:50
  2. 2New to schedulingRunning time 4:14
  3. 3You know Microsoft ProjectRunning time 4:01
  4. 4New to scheduling on a P6 projectRunning time 4:16
  5. 5You know P6Running time 4:09
  6. 6Adding the Scheduler to a Basic accountRunning time 1:07
  7. 7Viewer or editor: which one you haveRunning time 1:41
  8. 8Open a scheduleRunning time 1:48
  9. 9New schedule and your defaultsRunning time 1:49
  10. 10Adding and deleting activitiesRunning time 0:56
  11. 11Indent, outdent and the WBSRunning time 0:44
  12. 12Durations and the sheetRunning time 1:19
  13. 13Drag a bar; undo and redoRunning time 0:50
  14. 14Milestones and activity typesRunning time 0:35
  15. 15The Details panelRunning time 0:47
  16. 16Editing activitiesRunning time 2:16
  17. 17Schedule options and settingsRunning time 2:16
  18. 18CalendarsRunning time 1:51
  19. 19Links: relationships, lags and leadsRunning time 2:01
  20. 20Constraints and datesRunning time 1:56
  21. 21Scenario 1 · a Microsoft Project file, Simple modeRunning time 1:58
  22. 22Scenario 2 · a Microsoft Project file, Full modeRunning time 2:29
  23. 23Scenario 3 · a P6 file, Simple modeRunning time 1:49
  24. 24Scenario 4 · a P6 file, Full modeRunning time 3:02
  25. 25How scheduling worksRunning time 1:48
  26. 26Switch engine: Standard and AdvancedRunning time 1:40
  27. 27Links: the four types, lag and leadRunning time 1:02
  28. 28Links by shorthandRunning time 0:47
  29. 29Links by nameRunning time 0:36
  30. 30Logic lines and off-screen partnersRunning time 0:33
  31. 31Columns, views, sort, filter and searchRunning time 2:13
  32. 32Columns and presetsRunning time 0:46
  33. 33Views, sort, filter and findRunning time 1:18
  34. 34The GanttRunning time 1:53
  35. 35Updating progress yourselfRunning time 1:54
  36. 36Resources, costs and the live cashflowRunning time 2:12
  37. 37Resources and assignmentsRunning time 1:01
  38. 38Costs and the live cashflowWatchingRunning time 1:19
  39. 39Curves and periodsRunning time 1:09
  40. 40Earned value against the baselineRunning time 1:20
  41. 41Usage and over-allocationRunning time 1:06
  42. 42Working with others: one editor at a timeRunning time 1:51
  43. 43Sharing and live linksRunning time 1:58
  44. 44Saving, Save as and recoveryRunning time 1:49
  45. 45Analysis copies and revertRunning time 1:13
  46. 46The update processRunning time 2:16
  47. 47Exports, print and Excel in and outRunning time 2:03
  48. 48Run analysis, compare and baselinesRunning time 2:20
  49. 49Exports and printRunning time 1:06
  50. 50Excel in and outRunning time 1:06
  51. 51Scheduling that survives the siteRunning time 1:47
  52. 52Logic, lags and leads: the practiceRunning time 1:50
  53. 53You were sent a schedule linkRunning time 1:18
  54. 54The viewer with a Basic planRunning time 1:28
  55. 55You were asked for an updateRunning time 1:13
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