Job Costing Software

 For years, we sold computerized Job Costing systems to both large and small contractors in  most of the contracting categories. Our clients ranged from the highway heavy, steel fabricators, framing, and home builders to general contractors. Our smallest clients were billing about $1,000,000 annually. Of course, that was back when one million dollars was actually a significant amount. Now, the cost of computereized job costing is down to being affordable for even the small contractor and no contractor should be without this software.

Management Tools

A good job costing software system is integrated into the other crucial modules of an accounting system. The complete system would start with an estimating system, and once the bid has been secured, the estimation should be able to be uploaded into the job cost module. The Job costing system should link into the payroll system as well as the accounts payable and receivable modules. If you have heavy equipment, there should be a module which tracks the hours spent on the job as well as the maintenance schedule for the equipment.

Integrated Construction Software

Once payroll hours and tasks are entered through payroll, that information flows through to the job costing system. As Invoices for materials and subcontractors are entered in accounts payables, those figures are also entered into the job costing, complete with the retained amounts. The accounts receivable also updates the job costing when invoices are cut for the various contracts.

Job by Job Cost Control System

The bottom line is that the job costing has all the costing and income posted to the particular jobs. This gives you, the contractor, all the information, detailed job by job, phase by phase. There is no other tool that gives you the overall picture of what the health of your business literally looks like.

See Also:

Class Scheduling Software || Project Scheduling Software ||

 Resource Scheduling Software ||  Service Scheduling Software ||

 Work Scheduling Software