Assigning Burden Schedules
You can assign burden schedules to project types, projects, and tasks. When you assign schedules to a project type, the schedules are the default schedules for projects and tasks that use the project type. Assigning burden schedules to project types allows you
to implement company policies; for example, you can implement a policy that requires all projects of a particular project type to maintain the same multipliers for internal costing purposes.

You can change the default schedule for a project or task. You can also override default schedules at the project and task level by using burden schedule overrides. Burden schedule overrides generally reflect multipliers that have been negotiated specifically
for a particular project or task.

Defining Burden Schedules for Project Types
You define default standard burden schedules for each project type. These schedules default to each project defined with that project type. You can override the default schedules at the project and task level.

Assigning Burden Schedules at the Project and Task Level
When you assign a project type to a new project, Oracle Projects automatically provides default burden schedules from the project type. These schedules are also the default schedules for each top task added to the project, and schedules for a top task are the
default schedules for lower level tasks.
The schedules used for burdening and billing are those assigned to the lowest task. Note: When you change the burden schedule assignment for a project that already has tasks set up, the schedules assigned to tasks that already exist do not automatically change. You may need to review schedules for the existing WBS to make sure they are correct.

Assigning Fixed Dates for Burden Schedules
You can assign fixed dates for each of your burden schedules, just as you can for bill rate schedules. You can assign fixed dates only to firm schedules. You cannot use fixed dates with provisional schedules.
The fixed date specifies the date for determining the schedule revision to use in calculations, regardless of the expenditure item date.
You enter a fixed date for a cost burden schedule only if the project type definition allows you to override the cost burden schedule.
You can enter schedule fixed dates for standard burden schedulesonly. Schedule fixed dates are not used for burden schedule overrides.