Oracle Project Costing

Oracle Project Costing provides a completely integrated cost management solution for all projects and activities across an enterprise, with the ability to cross currency and organizational boundaries. It has the capability to capture detailed cost information to monitor project performance in a format that optimizes their productivity.

This chapter describes the following test flows in Oracle Project Costing:

• Project Expenditure Entry

Prerequisites

None.

Profile Options

Not applicable.

Predefined Data

Not applicable.

Setup Data

Not applicable.

18.1 Project Expenditure Entry

Project expenditure entry covers the integration between project costing and the other modules within Projects product family, like Project Foundation.
A project with separate line burdening is created in Project Foundation. Against this project, pre-approved time cards are created and cost distributed. Burden transactions are also created for the expenditure item. All the cost transactions are then verified in the Projects Expenditure Inquiry window.
Prerequisites
None.
Profile Options
Not applicable.
Predefined Data
Not applicable.
Setup Data

Table 18-1 Setup Data for Project Expenditure Entry Flow

Window Name	Field Name	Field Value	Comments
Project Type	Operating unit	Vision Project Mfg	Organization Type for the Organization should be Division and classifications to be attached are - Project Expenditure or Event Organization or Project Task Owning Organization
	Service Type	Consulting
	Work Type	Internal-Overhead	Work Type - Billable or Chargeable option deselected
	Resource List	Expenditure Category by Employee or Expense Type	Resource list of name expenditure category by employee or expense type has to be created with group resource by expenditure category with the resource employee Marlin, Ms. Amy should be created
	Burden Schedule	Labor Burden Only	Burden Schedule name Labor Burden only should be created. The structure attached to the burden schedule should have cost base as Labor and the expenditure type Professional with burden cost code Overhead. The burden multiplier 0.5 for the organization Vision Project Manufacturing should be created
Project Template or Key Member	Employee	Marlin, Ms. Amy	Employee in Human Resources, with active assignment
Pre-Approved Batch	Employee	Marlin, Ms. Amy
	Organization	Vision Project Mfg
	Expenditure Type	Professional	Expenditure Type- Professional with the below data UOM = Currency Rate Required = No Expenditure Type Class = Straight Time
Expenditure Inquiry	Expenditure Type	Overhead	Expenditure Type- Overhead with the below data UOM = Currency Rate Required = No Expenditure Type Class = Burden Transaction