Accounting Tab Help |
| Screen 4: Accounting The accounting options allow you to customize cost and effort data to your environment. More: Effort Unit: The effort units field allows you to enter total effort in years (YR), months (M), days (DAY), or hours (HR) etc. This selection should be made before you begin entering actual data. However, you can change from one unit to the other for projects that are already underway and you will be given the option of having your data automatically converted according to the values specified on this screen. Each effort unit can be preceded by a variety of prefixes: PREFIX EFFORT UNIT M = Man MM for ManMonths P = Person PDAY for PersonDays S = Staff SHR for StaffHours There is no difference between a man year, person year, or staff year; the prefixes are provided to allow you to match the terms in use by your organization. Person Hours per Person Month: The average number of hours a typical Full Time Equivalent (FTE) employee works in an average month. The value should range between 80 and 744. The QSM default value of 173 is based on a 40-hour workweek and 52 weeks a year (52 weeks / 12 months * 40 hours = 173.33 person hours per month). Labor Rate: The average wage and salary rate of the people directly involved in a software development, including detailed design, coding, testing, validation, documentation, supervision, and management, plus a percentage of the direct average to account for overhead. Labor Rate Unit: The name of the effort unit associated with the given Labor Rate; choose one of the following: MYR, MM, MW, MD, MHR, PYR, PM, PW, PD, PHR, SYR, SM, SW, SD, SHR. Monetary Unit: n the Monetary Units list, you may select the currency unit to be used for labeling cost on the project. Symbol Unit $ U.S. Dollar C$ Canadian Dollar R Indian Rupee A$ Australian Dollar RA South African Rand NLG Dutch Guilder BF Belgium Franc FF French Franc L Italian Lira DM Deutsche Mark SF Swiss Franc LF Luxembourg Franc PE Spanish Peseta SC Austrian Schilling NKR Norwegian Krone SKR Swedish Krona MA Finnish Markka ECU European Currency Unit YEN Japanese Yen Pnds British Pounds EURO Euro Dollars OTH Not listed Conversion Factor (to $US): The factor that, when multiplied by an amount expressed in the selected Monetary Unit, yields an equivalent amount in United States dollars. This factor is used in normalizing all cost data to the database default unit. |