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Job Costing Overview (What It Is + What It Pulls From)

Written by ZevBit Software

Job Costing in ZevBit is the place you go to answer one question:

“Are we actually making money on this job?”

ZevBit does that by compiling your:

  • Project Expenses (Like material cost, equipment cost, & subcontractor cost)

  • Timesheets (man-hours + labor cost)
    …and comparing your estimated job numbers vs your actual real-world performance.

What contractors get from this

  • See overruns early (before the job is finished)

  • See if labor is blowing up

  • See if material spend is on track

  • Know your gross profit and net profit as the job progresses

The “Job Costing is only as good as your inputs” rule

If your team doesn’t enter:

  • Expenses consistently, and

  • Timesheets correctly,
    Then job costing will look wrong (because it’s missing real cost data).

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