This Excel spreadsheet provides the opportunity to estimate various capital and expense costs for a project including IT resources, external professional services, hardware, communications, software licenses, and travel and supplies.

The Project Capital and Expenses can then be tracked against the budget allocated for the project.

The Project Capital Vs. Expense Costs contains the following costs:

  Project Management
  Pre-Development Costs
  Development Costs
  Post-Development Costs
  Hardware/Communications and Maintenance
  Software Licenses
  Software Maintenance
  Other (Travel, supplies, etc.)
  Subtotal
  Contingency
  Grand Total.

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