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Project helps you determine your budget. The majority of most project costs come from team members, with additional costs from equipment, materials, and travel expenses. In Project, you enter the resources required to carry out the tasks, the resources' cost per hour or per unit, and when and how much they will be needed (see Figure 2.2).

Then when you assign the resources to tasks, Project calculates the cost for the task based on the cost for the assigned resources. As shown in Figure 2.3, these costs roll up in your project plan to show overall project costs.

FIGURE 2.2 The Resource Sheet in Project

FIGURE 2.3 Task and project costs

As you enter actual progress on tasks, Project updates the costs so you can see actual costs so far and projected costs through to the end of the project. If the project is veering beyond the original project budget, you can adjust the plan to bring the project back under budget.

You'll learn about setting up costs in Lesson 6, “Set Up Resources,” in the section titled “Enter Resource Costs.”