DNA'S job costing module provides you with an easy to use, flexible system which can accurately track costs and revenues associated with a project, job or work order with data that may have been input from other systems or that can be entered directly in the job cost module.

It interfaces directly with other DNA software - General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Labour Distribution, Payroll, Inventory Management, and Order Entry as required.

DNA/JC will track all costs and change orders on an individual basis, progress billings and cash receipts. Budgets may be established at the detail level and are accumulated to the job level to give you a quick summary of actual profit compared to budgeted profit on every job. At the same time, budgets that get out of line can quickly be highlighted at the detail level. Control is provided so that purging of data is not allowed unless all costs have been billed or expensed, and job cost reports have been printed. For manufacturing jobs, costs may be transferred to inventory at either standard or actual costs.

Time may be input directly or captured from labour distribution, material costs from inventory or purchasing, sub contracts from Accounts Payable. Other data may be input directly, or automatically captured as a by-product of other systems through available interfacing.

Data is accumulated via a job identifier, phase identifier, and account identifier. The account identifier may be the same as used in the general ledger, and if so, costs may be closed to the general ledger from work in progress at the account level. Or, they may be closed directly to a cost of sales control or an inventory account. The structure of the job, phase and account is flexible to a minimum of 3 characters and a maximum of 15 characters.

The job cost process will accommodate two different accounting methods for revenue recognition. Expenses are accumulated in a work in progress asset control account and progress billings may be accumulated in a deferred revenue account in the general ledger. Revenue and cost of sales are recognized when the job is complete. Or, revenue is recognized at the time of progress billing and the associated costs are transferred from work in progress to cost of sales.

The billing routines permit material to be billed either at a list and discount or a cost and markup method or at a contract basis - in entirety or as a progress. Options exist to quickly bill an entire job, or to examine each cost element to determine whether it should be included in the billing cycle. Most billing procedures are customized to fit exactly how you run your business.

Inquiry functions permit the drill down of summary information to the specific account posting information.

All reports may be exported to a text file for further manipulation by utility software. Eg., easily allow a spreadsheet utility to provide graphical presentation of the information.