Auto calculate cost items

The Change auto calculate feature lets you start your cost item pricing work with the most current adjusted values from InEight Control. With auto calculation, changes to the current estimate in Control populate change order values, resulting in matching CE and CB values after the change order is completed.

The auto calculate feature subtracts the current budget from Control from the current estimate in Control to update the adjusted CB cost in Change. When you auto calculate a value, other values associated with the value are also adjusted. For example, if you recalculate the adjusted quantity, the unit cost changes. When you recalculate man-hours adjusted man-hours, man hours per unit, unit per man-hour, and labor cost per man-hours are updated.

Step by Step — Auto calculate cost items

Summary: Using auto calculated cost items is helpful in the early stages of cost item pricing when you might not have access to budgets, estimates, and cost categories. Change calculates the adjusted values from current budget and estimate values from Control.

Considerations: Auto calculate is for existing plug cost items only. If you recalculate a detail cost item, Change shows a message saying it will change the detail cost item to a plug cost item. Auto calculate is not available for new cost items, dependent cost items, or markups.

The recalculation uses the values from Control. Values previously entered in Change are overwritten by values from Control.

Quick steps:

1. From the Cost item pricing page, select a cost item, and then click the Auto calculate icon. The Auto calculate dialog box opens.

   

2. Select the fields you want to match the current budget values with the current estimate values. You can select multiple values. When you select Cost or Select all, Change recalculates the cost categories. Click Apply. Change recalculates the cost item.