Automated Cost Systems Summary

Automated cost reporting software systems

• Don't really work because, as we've just seen

  • The difficulty of synchronizing the timing of the progress measurement and the cost measurements
  • Linking the project management system to the accounting systems
  • The tendency to set up different measurement categories for progress and for costs
  • Difficulty in incorporating the all-important forecast costs-to-complete

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