Activities incur costs in a number of way, the use up resources which may be people, machines, services, computers, office space, etc. Activities also use up fixed costs which may be assigned on an activity by activity basis, thus allowing for the assignment of overhead. Fixed costs are assigned in bulk, that is to say there is one fixed cost per activity. However resource costs are assigned on a resource by resource basis, each one having a cost and an associated time unit. |
Element | xpdl:SimulationInformation |
<xsd:element name="CostStructure"> <xsd:annotation> <xsd:documentation>Activities incur costs in a number of way, the use up resources which may be people, machines, services, computers, office space, etc. Activities also use up fixed costs which may be assigned on an activity by activity basis, thus allowing for the assignment of overhead. Fixed costs are assigned in bulk, that is to say there is one fixed cost per activity. However resource costs are assigned on a resource by resource basis, each one having a cost and an associated time unit.</xsd:documentation> </xsd:annotation> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:choice> <xsd:element ref="xpdl:ResourceCosts" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> <xsd:element name="FixedCost" type="xsd:integer"/> </xsd:choice> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> |