JOB COSTING SOFTWARE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
Job costing is as important to the majority of our customers as their accounts. Because of this Construction Industry Accounts (CIA) software has a very flexible, fully integrated, job cost structure.

If an accountant is using a general accounting system without true job cost functionality, the costs must be manually transferred into a job costing spreadsheet. Our integrated accounting software improves cost control and reduces risk of errors.

Each new contract is setup within the job costing ledger, this can be linked to a customer if necessary. Information recorded includes the job name and address (this can default to the customer address), contact names and telephone numbers. You can also record the estimated start time of the job.

The most important part of job cost accounting is designing the job breakdown or analysis structure.

KEY BENEFITS OF CIA JOB COSTING SOFTWARE

• User definable analysis codes
• Unlimited breakdown of a job
• Budget entries
• Multiple reports
• Summary or full breakdown of costs
• Profit reporting on jobs
• Compare actual costs against budgets

ANALYSIS CODES
Analysis codes are the heart of the job costing ledger, each job can be broken down into any number of analysis codes.

The user may keep a simple structure eg:

• Materials
• Labour
• Subcontractor
• Plant Hire
• Miscellaneous

Or break down into as much detail as necessary eg

• Materials
  
  • Tiles
  • Bricks
  • Blocks
  • Aggregate
  
  
• Labour
  
  • Bricklayer
  • Carpenter
  • Roofer

The Job Cost structure is completely flexible and the user can have as many or few codes as is necessary.

In a poll of new customers, CIA's Job Costing module was the deciding factor for over 80% of users ordering from CLiP IT Solutions, rather than any of our competitors.

TEMPLATES
Most companies keep the same job costing structure, using the same analysis codes for every job. The user can define any number of templates, when a new job is created a standard template is copied across automatically.

BUDGETS
An optional part of job costing, if an estimate has been raised the user can assign a budget against each analysis code, enabling them to compare actual job costs against budgets.

VARIATIONS
Once a job is running there are often changes to the plan, if the user wants to job cost these variations separately, extra analysis codes can be added to the job at anytime.

Once a job is setup, the actual job costing occurs automatically as purchase invoices, payroll, subcontractor invoices, application for payments (stage payments) etc are entered.

JOB COSTING REPORTS
A key part of job costing are the reports that can be generated, Construction Industry Accounts (CIA) has a number of reports depending on the information the user requires. All reports can simply be exported to Excel.