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
None.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
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.
None.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
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 |