JOB COSTING

Control costs, maximise profits, every job

The Job Costing module is a comprehensive solution with deep integration to other BusinessCraft modules unlike other systems where Job Costing is an interface or an add-on.

Job Costing provides comprehensive capabilities to track and control costs broken down into sections, cost centres and departments as needed.

Features such as Margin Declare ensure that expected Margin can be locked in so that subsequent cost variances can be tracked and reported on.

Our full featured automated revenue and cost recognition process enables accurate profit recognition (yes - fully integrated to our financial modules) without laborious manual calculations every month.

COST TRACKING

Keep track of costs.

Job Costing automatically keeps track of job costs as they are incurred including purchase order commitments.

  • Grid style screens display all costs categorised into Labour, Materials, Purchases, Subcontract and Other Costs.

  • Purchase Order commitments are visible on a dedicated tab

  • Comprehensive options to filter, sort, select and arrange columns provided to focus on data needed. Exports to standard desktop applications provided.

SECTIONS & COST CENTRES

Use sections, cost centres and departments to break jobs down into easily analysed portions.

Review and analyse jobs costs in a manner that suits your business

  • Sections enable jobs to be broken done into smaller portions

  • Cost Centres enable costs to be tracked against trades or similar cost categories

  • Departments provide an additional option to breakdown costs

MARGIN CONTROL

Use margin declare and extra to schedule to track unexpected costs.

Margin Declare enables expected costs to be locked in. Extra to Schedule tracks and reports on subsequent overruns.

  • After Margin Declare each subsequent cost not already allowed for will require an ETS reason and optionally additional information the business requires.

  • ETS Reasons are user defined and not hard coded

  • ETS Security options and limits are available

  • Use Back Charges to recover costs for faulty workmanship

PROFIT RECOGNITION

Choose from a range of options to recognise revenue and costs on jobs.

Use our Automated Profit Recognition process with its many options to choose from or use a more manual process that suits your requirements.

  • Provides a range of options to automatically calculate revenue and costs to be recognised for jobs.

  • Can be run as a scheduled task or as and when it suits the business cycle. When not automated, results can be reviewed in trial mode prior to committing the process.

  • Choose from a range of automatic or partial cost take-up methods when invoicing.

  • Stock sales will take up costs based on the value of items in inventory.

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