Contractor's Guide to Peachtree Complete

[smassey]

Does anyone have a copy of the Contractor's Guide to Peachtree Complete? If so, does it contain any better information about job costing and how to set it up, get specific reports that the user's manual or the Peachtree for Dummies book doesn't address?

Also, does anyone have one they might like to part with?

[bluegal]

Although I've never seen the contractor's guide, from what I remember from the sales brochures it gave you a standard contracting chart of accounts and probably some hints on job cost.

The job cost program is pretty limited; how much detail do you want to track?

[smassey]

I am going to need to post time tickets to jobs, add any reimbursable expenses to jobs, move equipment from inventory and post it to the job, and then invoice our costs every month from the job ledger report (or the appropriate information source). One catch is that we have a contract price on the job. We cannot bill any more than the contract price regardless of whether the cost is greater than the income (which has happened in the past). Will I be able to see all my transactions on the job ledger report and any previous invoices that I have billed out so that I have a balance of cost that is left over each month to be billed?
Also, we usually have a Work-in-process GL account that we post all of these job costs to and then when it is invoiced we reduce this account and move it over to AR. Do I need to set it up so that all the job related expenses go to this WIP account? And if so, how do I do that?
Sorry to be long winded. Thanks for any help.

[dringstrom]

Peachtree's job cost tracking will allow you to track all expenses related to a job, so you'll be able to measure cost overruns. Peachtree doesn't support WIP accounts, though. You'll have to improvise through journal entries if you wish to use this procedure.