Job Costing


Jonas software gives up to date information on your projects - critical to bringing projects in
on budget!


Key Features

  • Direct posting of committed costs from Purchase Order and Subcontract 
  • Fully integrated to Payables, Receivables, Payroll, Work Order, Inventory, Equipment, and GL  Job style templates for easy set-up and flexible integration to the GL 
  • Automatically tracks daily, weekly, monthly, YTD, TTD, costs, estimates, labour hours, Equipment hours, and Quantities.
  • Tracks original estimate, approved / unapproved Change Orders and revised estimates 
  • "Tracer" drill down views to the transactional level 
  • Multiple projected final methods and cost to complete, units to complete 
  • Job Cost is a balanced subledger to the GL 
  • Handles unit costing 
  • User-defined alpha-numeric job #, cost code and cost type 
  • User-defined sort categories, conditions and filters 
  • Notes and deficiencies by job 
  • Tool locator and tool crib 
  • The Client can define the length of the Job number, Cost Item, and Cost Types to a maximum of 15 alphanumeric Characters 
  • All Job revenues and costs automatically integrate to the GL 
  • Integration features allow unique jobs to target specific GL integration
  • Jobs are also tracked and reported by department/division 
  • Job templates with unique GL integration are common with easy transfer to new job
    feature 
  • Two choices exist for entering estimates:
  • Comprehensive Entry prompts each cost type, such as labour, dollars and hours for all phases 
  • Fast Entry prompts each phase, and only the dollar amounts per cost type
  • This program invokes a discipline to ensure that no item estimates are missed 
  • A contemplated change notice [CNN] system provides general contractors with an integrated tool to solicit tenders, manage responses and select sub trades by project 
  • Quotation work sheets proposed to owners detail self performed, subcontracted portions, including overhead and profit percentage 
  • CCNs are all tracked and automatically transferred into the Jonas Change Order Management system 
  • You can keep track of the status on all your change orders

Inquiries & Reports 

  • On screen view of Job Profitability 
  • Job Status and WIP reporting 
  • Report Generator included for screen or printed reports 
  • Cash Projection Module for detail Job & Company cash flows 
  • Bar Graph Scheduler 
  • Bidding Request module by trade and geographical location with fax interface 
  • Over one hundred design code data elements from other Jonas modules can be accessed for easy report design 
  • Report styles can be personalized with decimals, brackets, negative signs, and more 
  • Default column widths and report headings can be tailored here 
  • Calculation formulas may be entered for a derived column, such as "variance", which may not exist as a standard design code 
  • Job Cost Views provides all job accountants and project managers with a direct method of tracing all transactions that make up any cost or revenue figure 
  • The Job Cost "Tracer" feature provides a further transaction drill down inquiry on any cost or revenue to date 
  • A complete transaction listing is possible. These can include costs from Payables,
  • Work Order, Inventory, Payroll and journal adjustments

Click Here to view Job Cost Overview & Sample Reports for General/Sub-Contractors.

Click Here to view Job Cost Overview & Sample Reports for HVAC/Mechanical/Electrical.

Click Here to view Job Cost Overview & Sample Reports for Road Builders, Sewer & Watermain.

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