{"id":739,"date":"2016-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/yes-there-is-a-better-way-to-manage-job-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:36:22","slug":"yes-there-is-a-better-way-to-manage-job-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/yes-there-is-a-better-way-to-manage-job-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, there is a better way to manage job costs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A few months ago, I was speaking with an accountant whose small construction client was experiencing tremendous growth. We\u2019re talking double the number of projects that typically came in the door. For the accountant, however, the growth was taking the company\u2019s job costing process to its knees. There was a lot more work to maintain the Excel spreadsheets he used to track the firm\u2019s job cost. And to make matters worse, there was no easy way to handle overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve heard a story like this. Unfortunately, many contractors don\u2019t realize that there is a better way to manage job costs. In our new e-book Protecting profits: Seven ways you can improve job cost tracking<\/em><\/a>, we show you how the latest construction technology can help you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n