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Resources Allocation (Plan Staff Effort)

October 19, 2015 Setup and Manage the Work Plan 8685

Related articles: Understanding the Budget Calculation At Proposal > Work plan > Staff effort or DoW > Work plan > Staff effort during implementation stage, each user is able to allocate (or re-allocate) the plan personnel resources in person-months on his organisation’s personnel cost categories to the work plan items for his organisation. The Staff Effort is...

Set up the project budget according to the EC’s GPFs (Grant Preparation Forms)

July 27, 2015 Budget Considerations, FAQ's, Setup the Financial Information for Contractors 4671

Before setting up the budget according to the EC’s GPFs as described below, please read our help article Understanding the budget calculation. In order to setup the budget of a specific partner according to the figures in the GPF, please proceed with the following steps for every partner involved in the project. Calculate the personnel costs for...

Q: Why do actual personnel cost not pre-populate in cost reporting when reporting person-month?

June 9, 2013 FAQ's 2948

Unlike at planning stage (Proposal or DoW) where planned personnel costs are calculated based on plan efforts and rates, actual personnel cost are not pre-populated in Implementation > Reporting > Costs. When reporting person-months, please enter the actual personnel cost additionally and separately at Implementation > Reporting > Resources. In our experience, it is necessary...

Understanding the Budget Calculation Featured

July 15, 2016 Budget Considerations, Setup the Financial Information for Contractors, DoA/DOW Amendment / Changes 19529

The budget/funding calculator auto-computes the budget and funding for the entire project and per each project participant based on the participant’s financial settings, the activity types and the cost categories. In EMDESK, the budget is managed at the level of the project participants and then summed up to the total project budget. The project participant’s budget is the sum of...

Adjusting Personnel Costs in the Project Budget

July 27, 2015 Budget Considerations 57387

The EC budget calculation is based on strict rules and EMDESK automatically creates the budget based on your input. This means that whenever you adjust any of several variables, the overall total of the requested EC contribution and/or the total budget may change. This is especially true for personnel costs. Making one small change to the...

Project Budget Calculator

July 27, 2015 Budget Considerations, Setup the Financial Information for Contractors 8929

At Proposal > Project > Budget or DoW > Project > Budget, you can see the calculated budget and funding according to the current project’s and partners’ financial settings. Users with Coordinator Rights can see the budget for all project participants, whereby users with Contractor Rights can only see the budget of the overall project and their participant partner. EMDESK calculates the...