.Use this screen to create and maintain indirect burdens or overhead allocations to be used with both baseline and workplan budgets.
Each project budget must have an assigned burden template; the baseline and workplan budget for the same project can have different burden templates. Assign burden templates to the budgets on the Info tab of the Manage Project Budgets and ETC screen.
You can modify templates even after they are linked to a project budget. After editing the template, use the Build Budget Composite Rates screen to rebuild project data tables. You can override the composite burden rate within each project budget subtask on an individual row. If you modify the Composite Rate on a row on the Direct subtask or the Labor subtask of the Manage Project Budgets and ETC screen, the total in the Indirect subtask does not match the total of all the burden amounts on the Direct or the Labor subtasks.
Use this screen when initializing Costpoint Advanced Project Budgeting or when you need to add a new burden template before creating a new project budget.
Enter the burden template that you are creating.
Enter a description of the burden template.
To start a new line, click .
Enter, or click 
to select, the fiscal year for this burden template row. Eligible selections include both closed and open fiscal years. Because each burden template can have rows with different fiscal years, budget templates can cross fiscal years. Each combination of fiscal year and pool must be unique to the template. After you save this screen, you cannot modify this column; however, you can delete the row and replace it with the same data but with a different fiscal year.
Enter, or click to select, the pool number for this burden template row. Each combination of fiscal year and pool must be unique to the template. You can create the pool number here, a maximum of six characters, or use a pre-existing pool number created on the Manage Cost Pools screen. After you save this screen, you cannot modify this column; however, you can delete the row and replace it with the same data but with a different pool number.
Enter the processing sequence for this cost pool template. This number determines the order in which the cost pools are processed. If more than one row has the same processing sequence number, the topmost row in the table is processed first. After you save this screen, you cannot modify this column; however, you can delete the row and replace it with the same data but with a different sequence number.
If you clicked to obtain the Pool Number, this column defaults the corresponding pool description. If you are creating the pool number for this row, enter a maximum of 25 alphanumeric characters to describe the pool. After you save this screen, you can modify this column.
Enter the cost pool budgeted rate. Costpoint uses this rate to burden project budget amounts. If you budget to the same account/organization combinations that are in the pool base, the corresponding individual pool rate, or the composite pool rate, defaults into your project budget. After you save this screen, you can modify this column. No rates default into this screen from the Pool Rates subtask of the Manage Cost Pools screen.
This column displays the rate format. For cost-based pools, % displays, and Amt/Hr displays for hours-based pools.
Enter the Cost of Money (COM) percentage rate, if any, for this cost pool. Costpoint multiplies this rate by the budget amounts entered for the accounts and organizations selected on the Pool Base subtask. If this cost pool has no cost of money rate, enter 0 in this field. After you save this screen, you can modify this column.
This column displays the rate format. For cost-based pools, % displays, and Amt/Hr displays for hours-based pools.
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Pool Base |
Highlight a burden template in this screen and click the Pool Base link to access the Pool Base subtask, where you can select the accounts and organizations to be applied with the budgeting criteria. |