Cost and crew
Job costing
Estimated, committed, and actual on the job, while you can still do something about the margin.
Job cost is the budget against what you have spent. Estimated, committed, actual — including the change order you already approved. A receipt from the lumber yard codes to the job, not to a shoebox.
Cost codes are the company’s. Labor, material, and equipment use the same codes on the estimate and on the receipt, so the job ledger is readable at the end of the week.
- Budget
- What you sold, what you committed, and what has hit the job.
- Cost codes
- The company library. The same codes on the estimate and on the cost.
- Receipts
- The ticket codes to the job. A supply-house run is a job cost, not overhead you discover in April.
- Job ledger
- The lines that make up the cost, on this job, not a company-wide report you cannot trust.