I added a "Costs" column.
These costs are fixed against each task.


If you click on the task useage button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, then right click in the Details section, then select "Costs" you get a very nice staged cashflow.
The trick is how to get it into Excel.
I would have thought that cashflow information would always be manipulated in a spreadsheet

There is no "Costs" column. There is the Cost column and then Cost1, Cost2, Cost3, etc. When I create a simple project add the Cost column to the view and add costs and durations - I see the data in the Task Usage view and it exports using the Excel Visual Report - Cost Report. Do you see data in the pivot table exported to Excel if you put data in the Fixed Cost field?

Do you have Service Pack 1 installed to Project 2010?