resource costs

[flyboy70]

hi we are currently working on a project whereby we use external subcontractors.

they have allocated a price per job (which can be several months), but i don't know how to allocate this in ms-project.

i would like to have in addition to the hourly rate also a controlling column where i know how many hours they actually worked, and how much of their price is still available.

thanks in advance

 

[PDQBach]

Although Project has some costing functionality, I never use Project to control my costs (that's what Excel is for).

I'm not clear how a "price per job" equates to "how much of their price is still available". Surely a "price per job" means that you're going to pay $X regardless of whether the job takes 1 hour or 1000 hours. Otherwise you would have described it as T&M with an hourly/daily/weekly/monthly billing rate.

If you've been tracking Actual Hours (see your other question here) then View | Resource usage provides you with all the information you could want.