Job Costs Feedback

NOTE-- We retired the MacNail estimating program in 2000, and replaced it with Goldenseal estimating software and construction job costing software. There are still a significant number of die-hard MacNail users, so we keep the manuals online for them! Goldenseal is an integrated program that also includes accounting, scheduling and contract writing. There are several different job costing reports in Goldenseal.

If you use both MacNail Estimating and MacNail Accounting, you can set up Cost Control worksheets for each project, showing a detailed 'estimated versus actual' look at each project's costs. This information can be used to adjust your 'price book', so future estimates will be more accurate.

You can 'feed back' job cost data by hand, or you can use the MacNail construction management software to do it for you automatically. Which method you use will depend on how much time you have, how accurate your job costing is, and how many projects you can use for feedback.