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title: "Estimated/actual cost fields"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/BPEdc/2533622540/Estimated%2Factual%20cost%20fields"
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When fields are set to "Not Synchronized", the values are stored only in BigPicture.

![image](media://60db4ea6-26f9-48e7-a2c6-7750e9b36929)

**Estimated cost and Actual cost can each be mapped to a Jira issue field -** this means you can associate cost with individual tasks and further automatically aggregate (roll up) the values in your boxes. 

Cost values need to be manually entered for tasks. 

![image](media://f0739340-e99a-4c7a-b6ca-3c3ae46bf54f)

## Use

**Cost columns **

To edit the values, edit the column view (Overview/ Gantt/ Scope/ Board modules)

![image](media://b4b85d4e-2370-47a7-9d2e-147442862fb9)

## Limitations

**Estimated cost** and **Actual cost** are **NOT** automatically calculated based on the cost rate of the assigned resource.