Job Costing

The Cost Control portion of the MacNail construction accounting software helps you to 'get a handle' on your expenses for each project. It also helps you to track your business cash flow.

NOTE-- Our newer Goldenseal construction accounting software is even better than MacNail, at job costing.

Each of your projects will be given a Job Cost Control worksheet that will track construction and 'soft' costs on a detailed basis. Actual costs are 'posted' to each Job Cost Control worksheet from your Ledgers and Logbooks.

You can also track your income and expenses with Profit & Loss Reports. These reports will let you see at a glance where you are making money, and where you are not

Getting Started

MacNail Cost Control uses the information that you enter into the MacNail Accounting Ledgers and Logbooks. It posts costs to separate Job Cost Control worksheets for each active project. It also sets up Profit & Loss sheets that help you to track your overall cash flow.

If you are using Logbooks for any of the four cost types (Labor, Materials, Subcontractors, and Misc) you will probably want to use them for updating your job costs since the information in a Logbook is much more detailed than in the Ledgers.

For most businesses, we suggest that labor and materials be job costed from the Labor Log and Material Log, and that subcontractors and miscellaneous items come directly from the Checkbook Ledger. See page 41 in the Tutorial for more about the use of MacNail Cost Control.