

Now, you should see only one line for the overall project: To collapse the structure, click on the black triangle left of the project name: The good news is … instead of hours, we can also show costs.īut first, let’s collapse the work breakdown structure so that we can see only the project summary task (the summary task that covers our entire project. To get show monthly costs, go to the Task Usage view: On the right side, you can see the calendar view where hours are shown. That is, including labor costs, costs of materials used, travel expenses and anything else you added to the budget. I assume you want to see the total monthly costs of your project.

Show project costs by month: here are the steps I am using Microsoft Project 2016 in this example, but my instructions will also work with older (2013) and newer (2019++) versions. If you are new to MS Project, you’ll find my e-book The 80/20 Guide to MS Project very helpful, because it explains the basic concepts of Project in a beginner-friendly style. In this article you’ll learn how to show costs by month. Or if you don’t want to know, your management will probably want to know :-). Once you have set up your project and assigned resources, you might want to know what the total costs per month are.
