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Put people, machines and money on the activities, and the schedule tells you what it costs, month by month. Here is how.
Open Resources: the dictionary, the assignments, and the summary. Choose Add…, fill in name, type, unit and price per unit, and Save.
Two resources in the dictionary: an excavator by the day, a crew by the hour. Select Excavate, then choose Assign resources… from the same menu.
Assign resources to Excavate, with units. The engine multiplies units by rate to make cost. The bars have not moved. Resources never move dates here; the costs follow the schedule.
The Details Resources tab shows the same assignments, editable in place. Type a new value into a cell: units, or a rate. Thirty hours for the crew, say.
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.
For the reported cashflow after an analysis, see the Trends and cashflow entry. This one is live.
That was costs. Next in the Guide: saving, which covers trying things out, Save as, autosave and recovery.
Taken from the video’s English captions.