How Do I: Job Costing

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Setup and Maintain

Set up a job
Enter beginning balances for a job
Set up and use custom fields
Copy job information to a new job
Enter estimated expenses and revenue for a job
Print a job estimate
Change a job ID
Delete a job
Use job statuses to manage jobs
Set up job statuses
Set up job cost codes (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
Copy cost code information (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
Change a cost code ID (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
Delete job cost codes (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
Set up job phases (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
Copy job phase information (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
Change a job phase ID (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
Delete job phases (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
Use change orders (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
Set up retainage (Sage 50 Quantum Accounting)
Set up labor burden (Sage 50 Quantum Accounting)

Tasks

Learn how to enter different types of job-related costs into Sage 50
Enter revenues for a job
Apply inventory items to jobs
Apply purchases to jobs
Purchase items for jobs
Apply payroll expenses to jobs
Enter items in inventory for jobs
Apply sales to jobs
Invoice for jobs
Apply job-reimbursable expenses to sales invoices
Process and release retainage (Sage 50 Quantum Accounting)
Bill jobs using progress billing (Sage 50 Quantum Accounting)
Set up and use Percent of Completion billing (Sage 50 Quantum Accounting)
Set up and use Percent of Contract billing (Sage 50 Quantum Accounting)
Set up and use Percent of Proposal billing (Sage 50 Quantum Accounting)
Apply overhead to jobs (Sage 50 Quantum Accounting)
Use job reports
Maintain the Job Ledger