The detailed cost estimating process, like the manufacture of a product, is comprised of parallel and sequential steps that flow together and interact to culminate in a completed estimate. Figure shows the anatomy of a detailed estimate. | CHAPTER 70_ DETAILED COST ESTIMATING Rodney D. Stewart Mobile Data Services Huntsville Alabama THE ANATOMY OF A DETAILED ESTIMATE 2118 2119 FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS DESCRIBED PHYSICAL ELEMENTS DESCRIBED 2125 2125 Time Skills and Labor-Hours Required to Prepare an Estimate DISCUSSION OF TYPES OF TREATMENT OF COSTS 2121 RECURRING AND Initial Acquisition Costs 2121 NONRECURRING Fixed and Variable Costs 2121 ACTIVITIES 2128 Recurring and Nonrecurring Costs 2121 WORK BREAKDOWN Direct and Indirect Costs 2121 STRUCTURE INTERRELATIONSHIPS 2128 COLLECTING THE Skill Matrix in a Work INGREDIENTS OF THE Breakdown Structure 2128 ESTIMATE 2121 Organizational Labor-Hours 2121 Relationships to a Work Materials and Subcontracts 2122 Breakdown Structure 2129 Labor Rates and Factors 2123 Indirect Costs Burden METHODS USED WITHIN and Overhead 2123 THE DETAILED General and Administrative ESTIMATING PROCESS 2129 Costs 2123 Detailed Resource Fee Profit or Earnings 2123 Estimating 2129 Assembly of the Direct Estimating 2129 Ingredients 2123 Estimating by Analogy Rules of Thumb 2129 THE FIRST QUESTIONS TO Firm Quotes 2129 ASK AND WHY 2124 Handbook Estimating 2130 What Is It 2124 The Learning Curve 2130 What Does It Look Like 2124 Labor-Loading Methods 2131 When Is It to Be Statistical and Parametric Available 2124 Estimating as Inputs to Who Will Do It 2124 Detailed Estimating 2131 Where Will It Be Done 2124 DEVELOPING A SCHEDULE 2132 THE ESTIMATE SKELETON THE WORK BREAKDOWN TECHNIQUES USED IN STRUCTURE 2125 SCHEDULE PLANNING 2134 THE HIERARCHICAL ESTIMATING ENGINEERING RELATIONSHIP OF A ACTIVITIES 2134 DETAILED WORK Engineering Skill BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE 2125 Levels 2134 Adapted from Rodney D. Stewart Cost
