Job Costing with outside payroll

[Kara]

I know many people have asked questions about this but it seems they never received answers that were posted. I am new to Peachtree and my boss would like me to take completed jobs and enter all material and employee hours into job costing. He would like a report that he can show employees how much of a profit or loss we are making. We use an outside payroll source so I do not use the payroll modules at all. I have read that you can set up dummie accounts in the G/L but wouldn't that show up on financial reports? I am not trying to create job estimates, I would like to enter the information after the job is done to keep for our records for future jobs and for employee reviews.Also, do we have to use the inventory modules in order to enter information in the reports? Any help is greatly appreciated-Thank you in advance-Kara

[peachgirl]

You can do this with a journal entry - it won't show hours but it will show amounts. Say your total payroll was $1000 and wages for Job 1 were $400 and job 2 were $600. You can make a journal entry that credits Wage Expense for $1000 and then debits Wage Expense, Job 1 for $400 and Wage Expense, Job 2 for $600. This will ensure the total wage expense is correct, but will reclassify the expenses to reflect on the job.

The only thing that may be tricky is you will need to know of total wages how much was for each job.