Job actuals versus estimates

This provides the tools for you to compare, at a glance, the actual costs for a job against the expected costs, thereby enabling you to identify and investigate cost variances as they occur. For a job for a made-in product, the basis of the expected costs is derived from the materials and operations defined against the bill of material (or estimate, in the case of quotations). Work in Progress queries and reports enable you to view the comparisons at job (labor and material totals), material allocation and labor allocation level. The Job Cost Recalculation program allows you to recalculate the job expected cost totals for labor and material, if you add allocations after the job has been created, thereby providing a more realistic comparison.