What does "ETC" mean?
[ETC] is a relatively complicated index that many users have no idea about it. To process a project, we need external costs such as translation fees and internal costs like employees' time spent. "ETC" is the sum amount of these costs. If a user issues a PO, the external cost is updated and deducted from the sum amount above. * ETC = (EXP EXT COST + EXP INT COST) - (EXT COST+INT COST) In other words, it is the expected costs left that a user needs to complete the project. By the way, when a project is finished, the costs can be changed due to some circumstances. In this case, a user may adjust the ETC's value to "0", which expresses "no more costs necessary." And a user can check the project's completion rate with this index. The status of "no more costs necessary" means that the project is completed 100%. "ETC" is an abbreviation of "Estimation To Completion," which means the expected costs left to complete th