How assignmnt finish date is calculated in project plan

We enable Single Entry Mode, protect acutals in our environments, and during our testing, we found that the Finish date of the task is auto re-calculated while the hours input is diffferently from the planned hours. And we have tested with different scenarios:
Fixed Work, Fixed Duration, Fixed Units etc, but we still do not understand the exact calculation logic of the new Finish date.
Does Microsoft have any document descrbing this logic?
Thanks.
Kevin Li

Hi Kevin,
It is normal that the finish date is recalculated by Project. When the team member enter actual work starting later from the start date, after the task update is approved and the project published, Project pushes the actual work, updates the actual start
date then recalculate the finish date based. 
This is actually why you do use a project planning software as Microsoft Project: you want the application to help you forecasting your project dates. If you do not want Project to recalculate, then you miht consider using a simpler tool like Excel.
Basically the process is that the team member gives the information that the task started later than planned, the project manager approves the start date and the actual work. Project calculates the planned finish date. But the last step is very important:
the project manager should review how did MS Project do the recalculation and update the project plan with the remaining work and eventually add or move resources on assignments to adjust the capacity and delivery dates based on priority.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |

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