Why do Project Costs start 1-month early? 1

[piedpiper11]

I'm puzzled by seeing all my project costs start to show up one month early. This is for a major $1.5 million 2-year grant where the official grant contract start date is 7/1/13. However, I've started the plan in MS Project on 4/1/13 so I can track some pre-contract tasks. I've created a milestone called "Contract Start" on 7/1/13, and I've made it the predecessor of all of the seven major contract Tasks (and their numerous sub-tasks). The Gantt Chart view shows all these tasks correctly starting on or after 7/1. However, when I show the Resource Usage - Cost view, I see all the major cost items beginning in June.

What am I missing?

BTW, I'm using MS Project 2013 Pro; on a newer Lenovo Thinkpad laptop with lots of horsepower (RAM, GBs, CPU speed)

Would appreciate any ideas?


Scott

 

[JulieInMaine]

There has been an issue with the Resource usage view - I believe it has been fixed in the April CU. See:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/projects...2010-and-2013-april-2013-cu-announcement.aspx

Julie

 

[piedpiper11]

That did the trick - thanks very much!!

Scott

 

[JulieInMaine]

Great. Glad to know the CU has things sorted out and thanks for the feedback.