The following features are advertised by SAGE as being available within its ‘job costing’ software module.

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l Keep track of job-specific information including job and customer progress and finance details.

l Record jobs by classification and add your own additional analysis fields Set the level of cost tracking required for each job, allocating business costs to individual activities.

User-definable cost structures can be tailored to suit your business Choose when and how to invoice your customers and print invoices directly from the program Set and monitor your budgets Analyse any job at any time with the in-depth enquiry function, focusing on job progress, job costs and revenue to date Integrates with Sage 50 Accounts and Sage 50 Payroll, providing a comprehensive costing solution.

Questions

1 What are the advantages of a computerised package compared to manual recording?