Ancillary costs, part 1: Track with Fixed Cost fields

- [Bonnie Biafore] Hi, I'm Bonnie Biafore. … In this Project tip I'll explain … when you want to use the Fixed Cost field … to track ancillary project costs. … And we'll look at how to do that. … Now, first of all, Cost Resources and the Fixed Cost field … can both track ancillary costs. … But they work with different project features. … So your decision about which one to use … could be really easy. … The big thing is Earned Value. … Cost Resources don't roll up into Earned Value fields, … so if you use Earned Value … to evaluate your project performance, … then you want to use the Fixed Cost field … for your ancillary costs. … So that's what we're going to do here. … In my project I'm looking at the Gantt chart view, … and I've just got the regular entry table. … But I want to look at costs, … so I'm going to head to the View tab. … And then in the Data section, click Tables and choose Cost. … Notice that the column right after task name is Fixed Cost. … So if you want to track ancillary costs …