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In your project there is going to be certain tasks that have fixed costs associated with them and Project 2007 certainly allows you to plan and adapt for fixed costs that have to do with again, a task that you have. The way that you do this let's say for example you have a task here called, obtain shooting permits, and you have to pay money to do that and you know you'll have to pay a thousand bucks or two thousand or a 100 bucks to obtain shooting permits, there is an application fee that goes along with that. So let's enter in a fixed cost of an application fee that goes along with the obtain shooting permits. The way that I recommend you go about that is first to change your view, once again doing the right thing in project a lot of times has to do with just finding the right view where you can enter the information you want and here we want to use the task sheet. So go to more views here and you can do this through the view menu as well. Go to more views and then click on the task sheet once again and there it is, click on apply. So as you can see here this task sheet is very similar to what we see on the left side of the Gant chart, it just has a list of all the tasks, the duration, the start and finish predecessors and so on, so a little more information then sometimes we get with the Gant chart as far as just a listing of task. But there's also a difference in your table, so the actual table of the view, we're going to switch that, so using the view menu once again, we're going to come down to table and right now the entry table is showing but we want to look at the cost table and so we switch over just like that. With the cost view or the cost table I should day applied to task sheet view you can now see that we have two columns where we can enter in fixed cost information. So say we have a 100 dollar application fee that goes along with obtaining shooting permits and now how are we going to accrue that fixed cost? Is it going to be prorated? In other words it's going to be tracked evenly, spread out evenly across the duration of the task or is it going to accrue at the start or is it going to accrue at the end of the task and these just things that help you track your overall cost of a project that is in progress. It's not going to affect the overall costs no matter what you do assuming that the task gets done in time for completion of the project. But as far as tracking your progress through, if you're in the middle of this task and your accrual is start then that fee will already have been applied toward the total cost of the project. So assigning a fixed cost very easy to do, all you really have to remember is how to open up the right view to best facilitate that entry of the fixed cost.