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BusinessWorks’ Job Cost module can track labor, materials, equipment, overhead, subcontracting and miscellaneous costs for an unlimited number of jobs or projects. A wide variety of reports help budget, control and manage jobs to help you optimize your profit potential. Job Cost is fully integrated with other BusinessWorks modules.

• Provides instant inquiry of job information including billings, credit memos, debit memos and payments
• Provides instant inquiry for customers including billings, credit memos, debit memos and payments
• Job codes can be imported from a text file or from current Payroll task codes, Inventory Control parts and Accounts Receivable standard items
• Job information can be exported based on the status of the job in many formats including those for text files, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3^®, Quattro Pro, Word and Access

• Easily enables a bid to become a job in progress
• Calculates estimated cost and price of job based upon estimates assigned to a phase
• Automatically calculates estimated cost of phases based upon job code detail
• Job codes can be categorized as labor, material, equipment, subcontracting, overhead, miscellaneous or as a consolidating type
• Tracks estimated costs, actual costs and change in estimated costs from change orders for jobs, phases and job code detail
• Overhead can be calculated based upon fixed amounts, percentage of costs, actual costs incurred or based on your actual payroll overhead
• Phases of jobs can be entered without detail
• Allows automatic activation of all phases of a job in progress
• Retainage percentage can be entered for each job
• Provides tracking of customer retainage withheld through its release during a job's cycle
• Maintains both phone and fax numbers for contacts
• Customers can be added "on the fly" when entering jobs
• Job codes can be added "on the fly" when entering information on phases of jobs

• Allows posting of charges and charge adjustments from the General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Inventory Control and Purchasing, Order Entry, Payroll and Job Cost modules
• Allows posting of billings and credit memos in the General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Order Entry and Job Cost modules
• Allows posting of debit memos in the General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Job Cost modules
• Allows posting of cash payments in the General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Order Entry and Job Cost modules
• Posts voided payments in the General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Job Cost modules
• Creates accurate bids from actual costs
• Allows discounts and write-offs of billings during payment posting
• Can automatically calculate retainage to be withheld from billings
• Track changes to a job that is already in progress
• Allows editing the ending date of a job/phase on the fly when posting a transaction
• Tracks estimated, actual and change order quantities

• Reports can consolidate information for job codes
• Allows printing of job code reports by type of job code
• Reports can include totals for labor, material, equipment, overhead, subcontracting and miscellaneous categories
• Sorts reports by job ID, manager number or customer ID
• Provides detail or summary report

• List of Job Codes
• List of Managers
• Charges Report
• Billings Report
• Request for Payment Report
• Cash Posting Report
• Work Completed Report
• Work Outstanding Report
• Cost Variance Report
• Profit/Loss Report
• Labor Analysis Report
• Change Orders Report
• Job Code Activity Report
• Job Status Report
• Job List (Internal)
• Job List (External)
• Job Transactions Report
• Pre-billing Worksheet
• Flash Report (summary of Job Cost activity)
• Custom Reports
• Report Groups