Projected Cost
How do we see what a project’s work is expected to cost?
Projected cost is computed from what is actually assigned: employee cost for the people on a task, plus payment amounts on its equipment, consumable, service, and miscellaneous lines. Totals show per resource type and overall, while the task is still being planned.
How it works
When a task’s resources are set, the projected-cost view prices them. Employee cost is derived from employee cost data for the people assigned, and each material line — equipment, consumables, services, miscellaneous — carries a payment amount. The screen totals each resource class and sums an overall projected cost for the task.
Because the calculation runs from planning data, scope decisions get priced before work starts: adding a resource line or another assignee changes the projection immediately, and project-level cost reads as the sum of its tasks’ planned resources.
These figures are forecasts. continON does not present this as project accounting: actual-cost collection against the forecast and postings into the finance ledger are not part of this screen.
What the view returns
Drawn from Project ManagementScoped toOne project, by resource type
Per-resource-type totals
Employees, equipment, consumables, services, and miscellaneous lines each total separately before rolling into one projected figure.
Employee cost from records
The people component is computed from employee cost data for the specific employees assigned to the task.
Priced resource lines
Each material resource line carries its own payment amount, so the projection reflects the actual planned lines, not an estimate field.
Forecast, not accounting
The output is a planning projection; it does not claim actual-cost tracking or ledger postings.
See projected cost running in continON.
A guided walkthrough on a sanitized demo tenant — this capability inside its module, on the shared platform.