Software for Job Costing

Software for Job Costing

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I have a couple of clients that require job costing / profitability analysis.  I have developed this in a spreadsheet, but the clients are getting to big for this not to go through software as the spreadsheet clearly is not robust enough.  Does anyone know of some decent accounting software, that won't be ridiculously expensive, for clients wanting to be able to report on job costs and job profitability.  It could also potentially be able to bill associated job costs on, but I would it to be able to handle all the ordinary book-keeping stuff?

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Teignmouth
By Paul Scholes
09th Jul 2014 18:46

FreeAgent

Whilst the basic bookkeeping is, to an accountant, not that sophisticated, FreeAgent's strength is in being based on project (Job) accounting and so every cost you enter can be allocated to a customer's project with a note of whether it is to be recharged or not and, if so, whether it will be at cost + a % or £X.

When invoices are generated any costs associated with the project (and marked as such) will automatically populate the invoice (as does the time ledger if you use it).

Each customer's record contains details of all the invoices per project as well as the costs allocated to each and shows costs not to be recharged as well as those sitting there waiting to be recharged and so you get full project reporting.

All staff can enter their own expenses and these too are dealt with as above, plus it has a mileage claim section for use of own car.

The reporting is mainly to screen but it has full bookkeeping, bank imports, VAT reporting, payroll/RTI and even gives you a good stab at the tax bill.

Clients with little accounting experience love it and even though people say it doesn't suit "large" clients I had a £1M turnover company on it and they loved it, there's no way they'd have ever coped with the more standard bookkeeping packages.

Definitely worth a look at.

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