Job Costing

The Job costing module provides for costs and charges - materials, labour, purchases, resources, Cash Book entries directly to a General Ledger Code and General Journal entries to be accumulated against a job by Cost Centres and Stages and posted to Work in Progress. The costs and charges can then be invoiced via sales orders to debtors and / or finished goods produced and returned into stock. Basically, the module work-flow is:

• System configuration – configuring the Job Costing settings

• Job Costing specific configuration - creating Cost Centres including stages, groups, status and priority, setting up Classifications to control postings to the General Ledger, creating Labour and Resource records for people and equipment and creating Templates, if required, detailing cost centres and stages, the stages being attached to a classification

• Create jobs - jobs can created from scratch, copied from another job or creatd based on a template

• Commit costs to jobs

• Raise purchase orders against a job for physical and non physical inventory items and non inventory items

• Receive in goods against the purchase order or directly to jobs

• Invoice the client and/or produce finished goods

System Settings

The code lengths for job codes, cost centres and stages are set in the System Configuration form under the Job Costing tab. There is one critical setting in this tab:

• ReceiptStockAgainstWIP - this controls the ability to receipt inventory directly against a job instead in being inserted into stock on hand. When ticked, lines in the grid of a GRN attached to a job are directly allocated to the job on saving (back order records where part number and job cost centre and stage match are automatically reduced).  When un-ticked, stock is inserted into stock on hand