One of the most important things you can learn about your business is whether (and where) you’re making or losing money. The session will look at the process of creating a job budget (estimate) in QuickBooks and populating job-related reports with actual costs so you know where you stand throughout the production process and by the end of the job.

Specific areas covered will be:

• Understanding the difference in levels of detail required in the estimate process vs. the job costing process
• Review the importance of aligning estimating and job costing categories
• Creating a QuickBooks estimate (the basis of comparing actual costs to budgeted costs)
• Populating job cost reports
• Getting fully burdened labor costs into QuickBooks job cost reports (whether you run in-house payroll or outsource it)
• Interpreting reports
• Creating and tracking change orders