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Cost and Revenue Tracking
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Tue 8 Sep 2009, 10:33Delegate Paul said...
Paul has attended:
Project Intro Intermediate course
Excel Advanced course
Cost and Revenue Tracking
I understand it is possible to format a 'cost' colum to show revenues for my porject. However I want to be able to report Gross Margin for items that are costed on a daily rate basis but earn revenue on an accrued lump sum basis (ie a proportion of a lump sum). Can we configure project to do this?
As an example I have a survey vessel that is costing me £20,000 fixed costs PLUS £20,000 per day to complete a survey that I ESTIMATE will take me 5 days to complete. I will charge the client a lump sum of £150,000 for the survey irrespective how long it takes me to complete but if it takes me longer than 6.5 days (£20,000 + 6.5*£20,000 = £150,000) I will start to lose money.
I want to ideally be able to track what my fixed and day rate costs are, what my accrued revenue is and therefore my Gross Margin (Revenue-Cost of Sales) and percentage Gross Margin Percentage (= (Revenue-Cost of Sales)/Revenue)
Can you demonstrate that MS Project can do this please?
kind regards
Paul Fisher
Wed 9 Sep 2009, 13:49Trainer Simon said...
RE: Cost and Revenue Tracking
Hi Paul,
Thank you for the question.
I am currently looking at the question and myself or my colleague Stephen will respond back to you.
Regards
Simon
Thu 3 Dec 2009, 14:43Trainer Andrew said...
RE: Cost and Revenue Tracking
Hi Paul
I just wanted to check in with you and see how you are getting on with your cost fields.
Customising a field such as Cost1 would enable you to build formulas along the lines you describe.
To customise a field go to Tools > Customize fields and choose cost type then select Cost1.
With the field selected click on Formula. Note the = symbol is added for you by Project, there is no need to type it in.
To refer to a field within the Project database use square brackets around its name. For example you might use
[Fixed Cost]+([Duration]*20000)
where [Fixed Cost] for this task has already been set to 20000
Based on this principle you could customise several cost fields to contain the results of your calculations or reuse them in further formulas.
I hope this helps. Do let us know if you have any further questions.
Kind regards,
Andrew
Wed 9 Dec 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.
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