diff --git a/src/google-cloud/client.ts b/src/google-cloud/client.ts
index fd44e352..dc44fcd6 100644
--- a/src/google-cloud/client.ts
+++ b/src/google-cloud/client.ts
@@ -166,10 +166,14 @@ export class Client {
   ): boolean {
     let isAuthorizationError = false;
 
-    if (
-      (err.response?.status === 403 || err.status === 403) &&
-      !isQuotaLimitError(err)
-    ) {
+    const status =
+      err.response?.status !== undefined ? err.response?.status : err.status;
+
+    /**
+     * 404 is usually not a permission issue. In this case, when a user doesn't have access to a
+     * specific resource it will return a 404 status code, when its a permission issue.
+     */
+    if ((status == 403 || status == 404) && !isQuotaLimitError(err)) {
       isAuthorizationError = true;
 
       if (
diff --git a/src/steps/resource-manager/index.ts b/src/steps/resource-manager/index.ts
index 88b1ae20..9a786ced 100644
--- a/src/steps/resource-manager/index.ts
+++ b/src/steps/resource-manager/index.ts
@@ -292,10 +292,12 @@ export async function fetchResourceManagerSkippedProjects(
         ) {
           const projectEntity = createProjectEntity(client.projectId, project);
 
+          logger.info(
+            `Adding skipped project to jobState: ${projectEntity._key}`,
+          );
+
           if (!jobState.hasKey(projectEntity._key)) {
-            await jobState.addEntity(
-              createProjectEntity(client.projectId, project),
-            );
+            await jobState.addEntity(projectEntity);
           }
         }
       }