First Result and Derived Costs

You can enter actual costs in terms of first result and have Cobra calculate the derived costs, or you can enter each result individually.

When you enter actual costs manually, each of the derived results is calculated from the selected result. For example, when you enter hours, all of the derived results are calculated. If you enter a direct cost, the overhead and G&A costs are calculated from the direct cost you manually entered.

When you enter actual costs using import file, you can choose to have various derived results calculated. For example, you could export the hours and direct costs from a labor system and have Cobra calculate the overhead and G&A cost when the import file is loaded into Cobra. Alternatively, you could have Cobra calculate the actual FTE value for head count analysis.

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Import Actual Cost Data

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Results or Field Names

Results Page of the Integration Wizard

Results Tab of the Resource File Properties Dialog Box

Actual Cost Preferences

Actual Cost Import File

Parent Topic:

Data Import-Actual Costs