Review job costs

Job costing is where you see what a production job actually cost against what it was estimated to cost, and what margin it earned. Each production job accumulates direct material, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead as its work orders run. The cost sheet rolls that up and compares it to the estimate and to the revenue the job carries.

Open a job's cost sheet

1. Go to Accounting > Jobs and select a job.
2. The header shows the job number, customer, and status. Four cards summarize the job: Revenue, Actual Cost, Gross Margin, and Margin %. The change indicators show how actual cost and margin moved against the estimate.

Read the cost breakdown

1. Cost vs Estimate breaks the job into Direct Materials, Direct Labor, and Manufacturing Overhead, each with its variance against estimate. The worst overrun is highlighted.
2. Production Progress shows operations complete, days running and remaining, and standard versus actual labor hours.
3. The list and Heat Map show every work order (or operation) sized by cost and colored by variance. Switch between Work Order and Operation with the toggle, and filter to All Costs, Materials, Labor, or Overhead with the selector. Click a cell or row to focus it.

Job revenue
  - Direct materials   (actual vs estimate)
  - Direct labor       (actual vs estimate, std hrs vs actual hrs)
  - Manufacturing OH   (actual vs estimate)
  = Actual cost  ->  Gross margin  ->  Margin %

What the numbers mean

The cost sheet is read-only: you review it, you do not edit it. The costs come from the work the floor reports and the materials it consumes, rolled up automatically. How material, labor, and overhead are valued and allocated is engine logic and is not documented at the customer tier; what you see here is the result of that rollup.

Where to go next

• For the production side of a job, see Release a job.
• For where these costs post, see Read the general ledger and trial balance.