Project Management with Merlin is very flexible. Take project cost management for example. You enter cost rates on your resources and let Merlin calculate expected or actual costs due to the assigned work. When necessary you can also note costs directly onto activities or elements.

These costs are the so called ‘Base Costs’, entered and edited in the ‘Finance Inspector’.

To allocate multiple costs or to define the accrual mode, expand the disclosure triangle. If more than one amount is entered in the Base Cost, the combined base costs cannot be changed.

When determining the cost accrue, you can choose between at start, prorated, at end and immediately.

Let’s assume you need to travel for the review of the current work to your customer and know that you will have to stay there overnight. Continue reading →