Costs and Expenses

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Assessment - definition
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Assessment is the process of moving labour cost from one cost centre to another
What are the two most common centres that labor cost is moved from and to?
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Typically this is between resource centres and billable projects or investments
What is the value of assesment?
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Hours booked multiplied by the cost rate
The assessment is twice in the statement. Explain
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Project costs: Assessment Debit, Other costs: Assessment Credit
Assesment Debit
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Your people are booking time
If Revenue is in US&C, can we place costs in another business unit?
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No, it should also be in the US&C
Billable utilisation
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Is the time booked to billable projects divided by available time
Credit Utilisation
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Is the sum of the billable and credited time divided by available time
Credited time
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is for specific activities such as investments. E.g. people are working on building a software.
Available time
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total contracted hours - excluded activities e.g. holiday, sickness
Is training part of excluded activities?
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Not any more
How are cost rates stated?
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Cost rates are stated per hour in the transaction currency of the emplyee
What cost rate is?
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Are calculated using total compensation and an assumed billable utilisation
Compensation 32M, Assesment 14M. What are the possible issues
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There are people who are not billable. The utilisation issue. The sot rate issue.
How to recognize whether the organization is importer or exporter?
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Importer - Assessment credit (with minus) is lower than assessment debit (positive). Exporter=Assesment credit higher than assessment debit
Why do we do assessment
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We want to match revenues with delivery cost
billable vs credited time
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billable - billed to client. Credited - investment e.g. software
Where are credited activites in P&L.
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They will show up in credit assessment and they will not show up in debit assesment (project costs)
When credited assessment increases and when debit assessment increases?
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If it is your project, then values will show up in debit assessment. If it is someone else P&L project, they will only show up in credit assessment
Burdened cost rates
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used for billable project also include an overhead allocation
Un-Burdened cost rates
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used for investments only include compensation
compensation
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cost of human resources
assessment under compensatin
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utilisation of people
assessment under project cost
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how much am I utilising people from other areas
Compliance
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is a measure of whether somebody has booked all of their available time on a weekly basis
Average utilisation
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85%
Max utilisation
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95%

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