Recalc

The Recalculate utility allows you to recalculate all costs without disturbing existing budget spreads.

This utility makes it possible for budget, actual, and forecast costs to reflect changes in rate information retroactively. This operation affects only the derived costs, not the base.

Cobra allows you to recalculate costs for all periods, for selected periods, or for remaining periods only. Recalculating remaining periods affects only those periods after the current status date. You can define which work items you want to recalculate using different recalculation techniques.

By default, the Recalc process has no effect on either complete work items or in-progress work items for which a change of scope is prohibited. You can, however, change this default by selecting the appropriate option on the Preferences tab of the Project Properties dialog box. If you choose to recalculate for remaining periods only, planned work items with scheduled finish dates prior to the status date will not be affected as well.

Like the Respread utility, the recalculation of costs should be used with care. The utility recalculates all derived costs for the specified cost classes from the beginning of the project to its conclusion.

Use the Recalc Wizard to run the Recalculation utility.