Time Report Charging Levels

If you use PeopleSoft Program Management and PeopleSoft Expenses, you can enter time reports for all detail activities, or specify the level of activities on the work breakdown structure (WBS) for which you want to capture time against a project. The level at which you capture costs for a project can be different than the level at which you report time in PeopleSoft Expenses.

Use the time report charging level of All Detail Activities to report time in PeopleSoft Expenses at the detail activity level. Use the time report charging level of Activity Costing Level to charge time in PeopleSoft Expenses only to summary activities and detail activities that reside in the specified project charging level.

This diagram shows examples of two different time report charging levels for a project. In each example the orange vertical bar aligns with the activities to which you can charge time:

If you use a time report charging level of All Detail Activities, users with the appropriate security access can select any detail activity to charge time in PeopleSoft Expenses. If you use a time report charging level of Activity Costing Level, the list of activities to which users can charge time in PeopleSoft Expenses is based on summary and detail activities that reside in the specified project charging level.

Based on the time report charging levels illustrated in the previous diagram, the following diagram compares two different lists of available activities from which users can select when they create a time report for the project:

If you capture activity costs at the project charging level, and enter time reports for all detail activities, the system creates time transaction rows for the project charging level parent activity during the PeopleSoft Expenses integration. The Project Transaction table (PROJ_RESOURCE) retains the original detail activity ID from the time report.

Note:

If you enter time reports only at the project charging level, the Project Transaction table will not retain the time report activity detail.