Project and Job Costing

Unlimited Jobs, Cost centers, Projects and Cost Groups. Job Costing supports Estimated and Actual for Costs and Revenues for any number of Cost centers per Job. Projects can summarize any number of Jobs. Cost Groups can summarize any number of Cost centers.

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Powerful views. A variety of Actual to Estimate comparative views are always immediately available...

• by Job by Cost center
• by Job by Cost Group
• by Project by Cost center
• by Project by Cost Group

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Independent of Chart of Accounts. AdaptAccounts versions in recent years integrated Job Costing with the Chart of Accounts. Like many design approaches this has advantages and disadvantages. The advantages relate to schema simplicity and implementation simplicity in all tasks and procedures affected by Job Costing. The disadvantages relate to an enlarged Chart of Accounts and a more complex AccountID. The original AdaptAccounts versions supported Job Costing independently of the Chart of Accounts. This marks a return to our roots. 

• The number of Jobs and Cost centers has no effect on the number of Accounts.
• JobID and CostID are now specified separately on applicable forms and import tables. They are not segments within an AccountID. Data entry forms provide specific JobID and CostID lookups.

Integration with Purchase Orders. Each Purchase Order line item can specify a particular Job and Cost center. This information is preserved in Purchase Order Receipts and provided to Accounts Payable. When these subsequent Payables transactions are posted any Job Costing effects are reflected in Job Cost summaries.

Integration with Accounts Payable. In addition to transactions originating in Purchase Orders, all other Payables transactions (including Recurring and Imported transactions) can affect Job Costing. Each distribution line item can specify a particular Job and Cost center. When these transactions are posted any Job Costing effects are reflected in Job Cost summaries.

Integration with Sales Orders. Each Sales Order line item can specify a particular Job. This information flows into Receivables during Sales Invoicing and is also reflected in Job Cost summaries.

Integration with Accounts Receivable. In addition to transactions originating in Sales Orders, all other Receivables transactions (including Recurring and Imported transactions) can affect Job Costing. Each distribution line item can specify a particular Job. When these transactions are posted any Job Costing effects are reflected in Job Cost summaries.

Integration with Payroll. Payroll time entries can specify a particular Job and Cost center. After Payroll Check processing has occurred these Job Costing time entry details are preserved in Payroll and reflected in Job Cost summaries.

Complete audit trail. All transactions are fully cross-referenced so you can easily examine the details affecting any Job and Cost center.

Powerful reporting. A variety of comparative reports of Actual to Estimate by Cost center or Cost Group, by Job or Project for All or Selected Jobs, Cost centers, Cost Groups or Projects are built-in.

Easy report changes. All reports are based on a visual report designer so they can be readily changed.