Creating a job cost report displaying the hours worked by employee, on a specific job or on all jobs, can provide a contractor with vital job costing information. Continue reading
Contractors switching to QuickBooks from another accounting program are often concerned about how to enter Job to Date Costs and Billing Data when converting, so they don't loose this vital information. Continue reading
QuickBooks Payroll, when properly set up, is capable of tracking and including the cost of your General Liability Insurance in job costing reports. Continue reading
A list of the current QuickBooks related eBooks that we have available - I do have several new ebooks that are ready to go, but you'll have to wait until after the first of the year in order to have access to them. Continue reading
A common conundrum for some bookkeepers is to create a job prior to receiving the contract paperwork, so that materials could be ordered - and then finding when the actual contract arrives that the job was assigned to the wrong customer in the QuickBooks Customer List. Continue reading
Progress Invoicing is a feature of QuickBooks® Pro, Premier and Enterprise editions, however, it is geared toward line item billing; more commonly used by contractors who work on large commercial and/or government construction projects involving a large scope of work or schedule of values and detailed line-item billing. Continue reading
Equipment cost-per-hour rates are calculated by adding together three distinct pieces of information. Once you know your Equipment Costs per hour, use QuickBooks to track these costs for job costing purposes. Continue reading
If you think that job costing is all it takes to have a good construction accounting system – think again! You need a firm handle on your costs and QuickBooks when properly setup and used does a very good job, however, you also need to be able to control those costs. Continue reading
The June 2010 edition of the QuickBooks for Contractors Newsletter, published on a quarterly basis by Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. is now available.
This quarters newsletter is all about job costing equipment in QuickBooks:
- Determining Equipment Costs per Hour –… Continue reading
It’s the start of construction season, is your job costing system in place?
While the start of a busy construction season may not be the time to do a full-scale revamp of your current job costing system, it is certainly… Continue reading
