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rogs
March 23, 2021
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Job Cost for Construction Help

  • March 23, 2021
  • 1 reply
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I need some guidance for a construction company that has moved over to Quckbooks Premier Plus Desktop. We were used to accounting software that was built for job costing. So far in this version I have not been able to find a way to see Job Cost Detail with all vendor payments by date and subtotal as well as all labor and material costs by date wtih subtotal. So the questions are:

 

1) Is there a report in this version that shows this info?

2) Is it possible to create a report that shows this?

3) Is this only available in Quickbooks Enterprise?

 

I'd also be interested in resources that can guide me through ways to bill customers properly for a construction project and if there are any functions that help with percentage of completion.

1 reply

MaryLandT
MaryLandT
Level 10
March 23, 2021

You'll be glad to know that you can run a Job Costs Detail report in QuickBooks Desktop Premier, rogs.

 

QuickBooks Premier Contractor Edition and Accountant Edition offer a wider range of job costing reports. You can find the reports you need by following these steps: 

 

  1. Go to the Reports menu.
  2. Select Industry Specific, then select Contractor Reports.
  3. Choose Job Costs Detail.


Then, you can start customizing the report to get the data you need.

 

Learn more about reports in QuickBooks through this link: Different reports that cater to your business needs.

 

Stay in touch with me if there are other reports you need by commenting below. I'm always around to help you.

R
rogsAuthor
March 23, 2021

Thanks for the reply. I haven't found any Job Cost Detail Report that gives me what I need on one page. I need a report that itemizes costs by job, labor, material, subcontractor/vendor, o/h, income, tax cost codes (list items), transaction date, description, amount and subtotals each cost code and a job total.

 

If this kind of report is in our current version could you tell me where to find it? Is it possible to create one?

 

What I need is something that looks like this, more or less.

 

Job: ABC Project     
      
Cost CodeSourceTrans DateTrans IDDescriptionAmount
01-001 O General ConditionsABC Group1/1/20208758misc tools        450.00
01-001 O General ConditionsTitan Supplier2/11/202014553barricades    1,150.00
Subtotal        1,600.00
      
02-800 L Superintendent LaborSuperintendent1/1/2020PR012         500.00
02-800 L Superintendent LaborSuperintendent1/15/2020PR018         500.00
02-800 L Superintendent LaborSuperintendent1/29/2020PR030         500.00
Subtotal        1,500.00
      
06-100 S Framing Rough InSpeedy Framers2/12/20207899framing    6,000.00
Subtotal        6,000.00
      
06-100 M Lumber MaterialHD2/28/202014888lumber    8,700.00
Subtotal        8,700.00
      
09-180 S DrywallCity Drywall3/03/0220123     4,250.00
09-180 S DrywallCity Drywall3/10/2020128         811.00
Subtotal        5,061.00
      
Total O/H                     -  
Total O        1,600.00
Total Labor        1,500.00
Total Material        8,700.00
Total Subcontractor      11,061.00
      
Grand Total      22,861.00
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