- What is Job Costing ... ?
- What are labor units ... ?
- What are labor columns ... ?
- What is unionized payroll ... ?
- What are payroll withhholdings ... ?
- What are committed costs ... ?
- What are actual costs ... ?
- What are estimated costs ... ?
- What is field equipment ... ?
- What are takeoff-items ... ?
- What are Line Items ... ?
- What are Invoice Line Formats ... ?
- Why Modular Software ... ?
- What are the System Requirements ... ?
- What is Certified Payroll ... ?
- What is a Customer ID ... ?
- What are lines per Purchase Order ... ?
- What is stand alone construction cost tracking software ... ?
- What is Distribution to Job Phases ... ?
- Job Costing is the tracking of estimated, committed and actual costs and units associated with a single, or any number of jobs the business has agreed to do for a customer or customers for a fixed or cost plus price.
- In the AccountPro Job Costing Platinum module jobs are tracked by 12 character alpha, numeric or alphanumeric characters and a Job description of up to 45 characters.
- Labor units are units which represent a unit of labor (normaly in hours or fraction of an hour), which in the AccountPro Estimating program is multiplied by a Dollar amount per hour to come up with a cost for installation of that item.
- The Dollar amount used per hour can vary from job estimate to job.
- There are 5 colums per item representing various levels of installation difficulty and or job conditions.
- One of the 5 columns may be set aside and used strictly for estimating extras on a job where conditions are different than they are when biddiong on a base bid.
AccountPro Payroll supports union payroll deductions and supports establishing as many union deductions as required each of which may pertain to a certain union with specifc details of how a deducton is to be calculated.
Some examples:
- The deduction can be for union dues, health and education fund, or whatever deduction you establish in the payroll module
- Assign deduction ids to specific employee which, for example, will allow different deductions for apprentices, journey persons, trades, etc.
- Calculate deduction for straight time
- Calculate deduction for overtime
- Deductions can be a percentage, dollar amount or both
- Paid by Employee or Employer or percentage split
- Maximum deduction amount
- Deductions can be turned On or Off globally for a pay period or by employee
- etc.
Withholding is the amount that employers subtract from their employees' gross pay for a variety of taxes and benefits, including Social Security and Medicare taxes, Federal and State income taxes, health insurance premiums, retirement savings, education contributions, union dues, etc.
Field equipment would be normally be considered equipment used outside the office or shop such as, for example, equipment used on a construction site.
Committed costs may consist of for example:
- Purchase orders issued for a job
- Contracts issued for a job
- Sub-contracts issued for a job
Tracking committed costs will give the business the ability to see what costs a job will incur before the actual invoices are received in the office and entered into the job costing module.
It (the module) also provides the ability to compare the committe costs to:
- Actual Costs and units incurred to-date
- Estimated Costs and units
Actual costs may consist of for example:
- Labor dollar costs including the number of hours charged to a job
- Labor burden dollar costs charged to a job
- Material costs (including number of units) charged to a job
- Sub-contractor costs charged to a job
- Overhead charged to a job
- Rental costs charged to a job
- Bond and Permit costs charged to a job
- Estimating costs and hours charged to a job
The Job Cost module provides the ability to compare the actual costs (broken down by job-phase) to:
- Committed Costs and units
- Estimated Costs and units
Estimated costs may consist of for example:
- Labor dollar costs including the number of hours (or units)
- Labor burden dollar costs charged
- Material costs (including number of units charged to a job
- Sub-contractor costs charged to a job
- Overhead charged to a job
- Rental costs charged to a job
- Bond and Permit costs charged to a job
- Estimating costs and hours charged to a job
The Job Cost module provides the ability to compare the actual costs (broken down by job-phase) to:
- Committed Costs and units
- Actual Costs and units
Takeoff is the procedure of entering a number of units into the Estimate for an item (Takeoff Item) from a drawing or other details for an estimate.
The number of takeoff units may consist of (some examples)
- Quantity of...
- Length of...
- Volume of...
- etc.
The units may be feet, meters, each, per 100 or whatever is established (by the user) for the takeoff item in the product master file.
- LINE ITEMS as used in the Invoicing and Purchase Order modules represent the item and line (row) on which you entered the item.
- You may have up to 9,999 line items in an Invoice and Purchase Order.
- The 'Item' may represent a physical item, a description of service, or just plain text.
As most businesses have different needs as to what the invoice shows to their customer, INVOICE LINE FORMATS as used in the AccountPro Invoice module will print the details as selected from one of the options presented in the preferences menu.
Some examples:
- Show Quantity ordered
- Show Quantity shipped
- Show Unit cost, do not show unit costs
- Show Unit price, do not show unit price
- Show Item ID, do not show item id
- etc.
Modular software allows you to purchase only the
modules you need.
Any module may be purchased and run as a
standalone module without the need for any other software, or
additional AccountPro Software.
If multiple AccountPro modules are installed, the
modules will automatically interface with each other without any
special setup.
- Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 or Windows 2003 (client or server).
- Memory 512mb (preferred 1gb) ram.
- 125mb free disk space for the first module, 25mb for each additional module.
- SVGA Monitor or better.
- Internet Connection for software downloads and upgrades (not required to run program).
- Certified Payroll Reports are required on most Goverment construction projects. The contractor provides Certified Payroll Reports for specified periods to the goverment agency responsible for the project so the agency can verify labor related requirements.
- Hours are entered into the AccountPro Payroll module and the report printed from the AccountPro Certified Payroll module.
- A Customer ID is use to identify the customer''s name or company name. A customer id may be numbers and or letters (alphanumeric). For example, A-101 would be a customer id.
- A Customer ID may have up to 12 alphanumeric characters.
- Using a Customer ID in AccountPro modules make for quicker entry and or section of customers and is less prone to data entry errors.
- LINE ITEMS as used in the Invoicing and Purchase Order modules represent the item and line (row) on which you entered the item.
- You may have up to 9,999 line items in an Invoice and Purchase Order.
- The 'Item' may represent a physical item, a description of service, or just plain text.
- The AccountPro Job Costing module keeps a history of all entries in the module.
- Tracks billings, labor, material, hours and units.
- Provides breakdown by user defined category (or division) with sub-totals for each.
- The AccountPro Job Costing module keeps a history of all entries in the module.
- Provides breakdown by user defined category, job phase (division), sub-phase (or sub-division) with sub-totals for each.