Creating cashflows with P6 Expenses has many advantages and some disadvantages over using resources.
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For example Expenses may:
- Have an actual cost assigned before an activity has started allowing the payment of contractor mobilisation,
- Have a remaining cost after an activity is complete to represent contract retention or a contractor back charge,
- Be negative to allow for charge back to contractors,
- Be applied to Milestones, whereas Resources may not,
- But it is difficult to get time phased Expense quantities out of P6.
This paper outlines:
- How to create Expenses and assign them to an activity, and
- The way P6 Expense calculate cash flows of unstarted, in progress and completed activities in all three scenarios of no actual expenditure, some expenditure are completed expenditure.
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