complete 2002-job cost help

[Eileen]

I hope there is someone who can help-I want to use job costing to total the job costs and to figure the billing rates. Our invoicing is done independently after we total these two items. thanks for any advice.

[Diane Koers]

Can you explain more what you mean by figure the billing rates?

[Eileen]

Diane-I hope I can explain what it is that I want to do. Here is an example. I have a machine shop with various types of machines and employees with different skill levels. Each employee keeps track of their time by job and by machine number. What I do is enter their time by job and then manually figure the billing rate. Here is an example - Joe is paid 20.00 per hour, if he is on machine 41 , I charge 45.00 per hour, if he is on machine 74 I charge 75.00 and so on. What I would like to have is a way to do payroll and total these billing or activity rates at the same time. I hope this makes sense. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Unregistered]

I think you can do what you need by using daily time tickets with the various machines set up as activity inventory items. Set the billing type to Activity rate. Post the time directly to the customer instead of to the job. You may not need to use job costing. When you make your sale, check Apply Tickets/Reimbursable Expenses.

There may be some differences with V 2002. I use an older version.

Nick

[Eileen]

nick,thanks for the suggestion , I can't post to the customer because I can as many as twenty active jobs for a customer at the same time. The activity items post to a general ledger account and I use these totals just to compile the job costs. Thanks for trying

[Diane Koers]

Eileen,

Please contact me at dkoers@home.com. I'd like to talk with you more about this.

BTW: I'm in Indianapolis and make frequent trips to Cincinnati. (Grandkids there!)