Plan and create personnel budget

To create budget for other costs, e.g. goods and services, please read "Plan and create budget items". 

Follow the instructions below on how to plan personnel budgets.

1

Click Resources in Home menu, this will open the "Resources" section.

2

Go to the "Budget" tab and then click + Add Budget at the bottom.

3

This will open a sidebar, where you can create the new personnel budget entry:

• Activity: Select the activity for which you plan the budget
• Participant: Select the participant the budget is planned for
• Cost Category: Select the Personnel costs category of the type "Rate" to enter costs based on a rate; to enter costs only select the Personnel costs category of the type "Fix"
  
  
  Note: There may be more than one personnel cost categories. Cost categories can be customised and configured under the Customisation settings. There are 2 types of cost categories: fix amounts ( Fix) and rate-based amounts ( Rate) costs. Rate-based are e.g. personnel costs and depend on the quantity and rate, whereas the fixed amounts costs are fix costs for good or services.
• Indirect Cost Rate: Once both, cost category and participant are selected, the indirect cost rate is auto-selected, since it depends on the selected cost category and participant
Note: To edit the indirect cost rate, you must have at least Edit access right to the participant you are creating the budget for and adjust its cost rate in the Financial Profile (see "Roles, access levels, and access rights").
• Cost Rate: Select the correct rate from the available options, which depend on the selected participant (only available when you choose the personnel costs category of the type "Rate")

Note

• If no cost rates are yet available for the participant, click "create a cost rate" to create a cost rate for the participant (see "Create and manage personnel cost rates"):



• To plan effort/time without costs, choose "No rate", the input for costs will then disappear:



• Time: Once you chose the cost rate, the input for time appears at the top of the sidebar. Enter the amount of planned time. The time unit is set according to the unit which set in the cost rate (Person/Month (PM), Person/Day (PD), or Person/Hour (PH)). To change the unit, click the dropdown:



Note: To adjust the default time unit for the cost rate, you must have at least Edit access rights to the participant you are creating the budget for and update the cost rate in its Financial Profile (see "Roles, access levels, and access rights").
• Cost (€): The cost is auto-calculated based on the time and rate (optionally, you can enter the costs first, the time is calculated based on the rate)
• Description (optional): Enter the personnel budget description
• Set Period (optional): Define a fixed time range within the activity duration in which the personnel budget is planned; by default the budget is assumed to be spent evenly over the activity duration
• Tags (optional): Classify and label the costs with tags (see "Using tags")

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Once you have completed filing out all the information described above, click Save Budget.

Note: Activity, participant, and cost category must be defined for each budget entry, otherwise the entry is considered as unassigned. Unassigned entries are listed in a separated table in the end of the "Budget" tab and are not accounted in the budget.