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Case study · Construction accounting
Cost Control: jobs, AP, AR and pay apps
A Cost Control module covering jobs, accounts payable and receivable, purchase orders, change orders, AIA-style G702/G703 pay applications and Positive Pay files, plus Books and Accounting for the ledger, WIP and job P&L.
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How it was done · told by Penny Tallybright
Is this job making money?
- 1
The problem
Job costs, vendor bills, change orders and pay applications were tracked in separate tools, so nobody had a live picture of whether a job was making money.
- 2
The bees make a plan
A Cost Control module covering jobs, accounts payable and receivable, purchase orders, change orders, AIA-style G702/G703 pay applications and Positive Pay files, plus Books and Accounting for the ledger, WIP and job P&L.
- 3
Build
- Rebuilt the old system's job-cost reports one by one
- Compared every total to the old reports
- Added pay apps and change orders on the same job record
- 4
Test
Added a ledger, trial balance and P&L
- 5
Where it stands
Running in staging against real job history, and reconciling to the old reports is ongoing.
The technology we used
Named, because we really use it.
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- CSV import/export
Technology names are text only. Naming a vendor is not a partnership or sponsorship claim.
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