Job Costing With Employees

AmandaArdern
AmandaArdern Member Posts: 6
edited March 2018 in Reckon Accounts (Desktop)
I have a tiler client that uses job costing to track job profit. He used to use contractors which worked well because the contractors amount in quickbooks would show the rate excluding GST (they were on $35 + GST). Due to legislation changes he has changed most of the contractors over to employees and they are now on $30.97 per hour + 9.25% super + 3.46% workcover (total cost to employer $35 per hour). The problem we are having is now the job profit and loss shows the employee cost at $30.97 per hour but my client still wants to see the total cost of $35 per hour. Is there a way to do this? Please help!

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  • Nathan Elcoate
    Nathan Elcoate Accredited Partner Posts: 162 Accredited Partner Accredited Partner
    edited March 2014
    Hi Amanda,

    Yes as long as the Super Item and Workcover Item are both ticked for "Track Expenses By Job" on the Payroll Item, and the relevant payroll items are ticked as applicable (on the last screen of the Payroll Item when you click through), the system will automatically write the Super and Workcover expenses to the jobs per the splits on the Employee payroll.

    Regards

    Nathan
  • AmandaArdern
    AmandaArdern Member Posts: 6
    edited July 2016
    Awesome thanks... I will have a look
  • Nathan Elcoate
    Nathan Elcoate Accredited Partner Posts: 162 Accredited Partner Accredited Partner
    edited March 2014
    Hi Amanda,

    Not a problem, sorry if that reply was a little rushed. Please let me know if you require any further assistance with this matter.

    Regards

    Nathan
  • GA
    GA Member Posts: 3
    edited March 2018
    Hi, we too are attempting to make our job cost reports more accurate with payroll costs hitting the job cost reports at a fully burdened cost amount (this should include the Super, insurance, allowances and leave accruals) we have managed to get the reports to reflect the super and most of the allowances through the method that Nathan mentioned above but are unable to get the job costs to recognise the Annual Leave and Sick Leave accruals.

    Quickbooks which is what Reckon Accounts used to be, have updated their system with additional payroll item types, one of these types is call "Paid Leave" which allows you to check a box to allow "Track expense by Job", unfortunately Recon Accounts after parting ways with Quickbooks dont seem to be keeping up. there is a lot of training information out there but most of it is based on new quickbooks platforms and not the old style of quickbooks which is what Reckon Accounts is.

    Thanks in advance
    Glen   
  • Nathan Elcoate
    Nathan Elcoate Accredited Partner Posts: 162 Accredited Partner Accredited Partner
    edited March 2018
    It will not cost accruals as they are not a cost yet. It will cost leave to the job though when taken.
  • GA
    GA Member Posts: 3
    edited March 2018
    Thanks Nathan, kind of makes sense I guess.