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Sage BusinessWorks - Job Cost
The Sage BusinessWorks Job Cost module provides methods for
saving you time and money by accurately estimating and tracking project
costs, including labor, materials, equipment, overhead and more. A wide
variety of reports are available to help you budget, control and manage jobs
to achieve greater profit potential.
The tracking feature of the Job Cost module
gives you pinpoint details regarding every job and project, so that you can
make informed decisions and more effectively manage internal and external
projects. You'll also be able to compare actual costs with estimated costs
throughout all the stages of your projects. This ensures that expenses fall
within your budget and you generate profit from each and every job.
Specifications (Maximum Limits)
| Customers |
50,000* |
| Job codes |
500,000* |
| Jobs |
100,000* |
| Characters in a job ID |
12 |
| Characters in a job
description |
40 |
| Phases per job |
999 |
| Characters in a phase ID |
12 |
| Characters in a phase
description |
24 |
| Job codes per phase |
999 |
| Characters in job code ID |
20 |
| Characters in job code
description |
28 |
| Job managers |
99 |
| Change orders per job |
999* |
| Billings per job |
999* |
| Payments per job |
999* |
| Decimal places for job code
costs and prices |
4 |
| Costs for job |
$99,999,999.99 |
| Price of job |
$99,999,999.99 |
| Costs for phase |
$9,999,999.99 |
| Suggested price of phase |
$9,999,999.99 |
| Costs for job codes |
$999,999.99 |
| Suggested price of job code |
$999,999.99 |
| Quantity per job code |
9,999,999 |
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* Note: All the specifications denoted with an asterisk are
practical limits. They are to be used as guidelines only and do not
necessarily reflect the actual limitation. Individual requirements may vary
based on the system you are using.
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General Features
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Provides instant inquiry of job
information, including billings, credit memos, debit memos and
payments, allowing you to retrieve information quickly.
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Performs instant inquiries for
customers, including billings, credit memos, debit memos and payments.
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Imports job codes from a text file or
from current Payroll task codes, Inventory Control parts, and Accounts
Receivable standard items.
Maintenance Features
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Allows you to assign a fixed price or
calculated price to jobs based on either a cost-plus-profit percentage
or a cost-plus-fixed amount.
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Easily converts a bid to a job in
progress, saving you valuable time.
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Calculates the estimated cost of a
job based on estimates assigned to a phase for accurate budget and bid
creation.
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Automatically calculates estimated
cost of phases based on job code detail.
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Categorizes job codes as labor,
material, equipment, subcontracting, overhead, miscellaneous, or as a
consolidating type.
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Tracks estimated costs, actual costs,
and changes in estimated costs from change orders for jobs, phases,
and job code detail.
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Calculates overhead costs based on
fixed amounts, percentage of costs, actual costs incurred, or your
actual payroll overhead.
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Lets you track phases of job with as
little or as much detail as you would like.
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Automatically activates all phases of
a job in progress, expediting the project throughout all stages.
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Permits you to enter a "retainage"
percentage for each job.
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Tracks customer "retainage" withheld
through its release during a job's cycle.
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Adds a customer on the fly when
entering jobs, saving your employees valuable time and eliminating
tedious reentry.
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Permits you to add job codes on the
fly when entering information on phases of jobs.
Processing Features
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Creates accurate bids
from actual costs, keeping customers happy and ensuring your projects
won't run over budget.
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Allows discounts and
write-offs of billings during payment posting.
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Can automatically
calculate "retainage" to be withheld from billings.
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Tracks changes to a job
that is already in progress, allowing you to more effectively manage
individual jobs.
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Tracks estimated, actual
and change order quantities.
Reporting Capabilities
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Reports can consolidate information
for job codes, giving you the information you need in one clean
report.
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Prints job code reports by type of
job code.
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Generates reports that can include
totals for labor, material, equipment, overhead, subcontracting and
miscellaneous categories.
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Sorts reports by job ID, manager
number or customer ID.
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Provides detail or summary reports
for quicker decisions.
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