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title: 5. Pivoting and Reporting Cost Data
description: Getting Started for Project Admins
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# 5. Pivoting and Reporting Cost Data
## Project Admins: learn how to use Join's built-in and shared reports, pivot Milestone Estimate and Item costs by WBS, and compare cost variance.
If you're creating projects in Join, here is everything you need to get your project up and running.
Select a section below and scroll down to see the related information.
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### What You'll Learn
- [Get an overview of Join's built-in reports and how to access saved or shared reports](https://success.join.build/en/knowledge/getting-started-for-project-admins-reports#overview)
- [Pivot Milestone Estimate and Item costs by your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)](https://success.join.build/en/knowledge/getting-started-for-project-admins-reports#msr)
- [Compare two stages of your project for cost variance by WBS](https://success.join.build/en/knowledge/getting-started-for-project-admins-reports#variance)
### Reporting Overview
Understand how to access various built-in reports, as well as reports that have been shared with you by the project team.
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### Milestone Summary Report
Create a comprehensive view of costs from Estimates, Budgets, Running totals, and Items in your project.
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### Variance Report
Tell a story of how your project costs have progressed between two phases of the project and break that down by your WBS or Categorizations in Join.
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