Job Costing
The Job Costing dashboard provides visibility into job costs, profitability, and budget variances. It helps teams track project expenses, compare actual and estimated costs, and review financial performance by job.
Benefits of this dashboard
- Control costs and manage budgets: Helps track actual job costs against budgeted amounts.
- Analyze job profitability: Identifies high‑margin and low‑margin jobs.
- Detect variances early: Highlights cost overruns to improve future budgeting accuracy.
- Track job performance: Monitors the financial performance of individual projects.
- Support strategic decisions: Informs pricing, resource allocation, and job planning with data ‑driven insights.
Visual components
| Title | View type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Average Cost by Job | Pie | Shows job cost distribution across projects. |
| Profit by Job | Horizontal Bar | Shows profit by job based on actual versus budgeted figures. |
| Jobs Actual vs Estimated Cost | Horizontal Bar | Compares actual cost, budgeted cost, and cost variance by job. |
| Item Cost / Selling Price Analysis | Worksheet | Shows budget versus actual costs, selling price comparisons, variance analysis, and profit margins by job and item. |
Filters
You can filter the dashboard with these panels:
- Company Code
- Job
- Warehouse
- Supplier
- Item Group