1. Create, Collaborate, Construct - A Guide to Projects
Presenter: Anne Stevenson

2. AGENDA Adding a job to Jonas Managing Your Job in Jonas Reporting
Job Sort Categories
Cost Types
Cost Items
Estimates
Schedule of Value
Managing Your Job in Jonas
Estimating and Forecasting
Committed Costs
Cash Projections
Reporting

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1. Adding a job to Jonas
Job Costing > Files > Job/Project Master
When adding a new Job to Jonas, the Job Number can be auto-generated or user defined.

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Job Sort Categories:
Job Sort Categories are selected to further enhance reporting options within job costing.
Entry can be free-form or restricted
Job Sort Categories are defined in the Costing System Profile: Job Costing > Files > Costing System Profile & Setup
When the Project Manager is identified as a Sort Category, it can be accessed by Digio for Approval processing.
Job Sort Categories provide an excellent reporting opportunity. To maximize the reliability of this, I generally recommend that the entry be restricted to only pre-defined option.

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Cost Types:
G/L integration is used to define the recording of costs and revenue to specific General Ledger accounts as well as Departments and Divisions.
G/L integration is copied from a Master Template job that has previously been created in your Jonas database. Select the Master template that has the correct distribution for the type of job you are doing.
Job Costing > Files > Setup/Edit Cost Types
The accounts related to our cost types should be inclusive of all accounts used to calculate your Cost of Goods Sold.
Cost types are used for all jobs

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Cost Items:
Cost items are used to track all detail elements or “phases” of your project.
Cost items are user defined so they can be highly relevant. Some users do opt to use industry standards such as those found in Master Formats and other like products.
Job Costing > Files > Setup/Edit Cost Items
While it is a good idea to standardize your cost items, they can be job specific.
All Detail reports in Jonas Job Costing are organized by the order of your cost items. For this reason, it is important to add cost items in a manner that is rational and thought out. Use numeric codes and allow yourself enough room between numbers for future additions.

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Estimates
Estimates are critical in Job Costing. In Jonas, the estimate can be added by hand or uploaded.
Most good job reports are dependant on an accurate estimate or budget on your job.

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Uploaded Estimates
The use of an upload template is useful when you have very large estimates
Estimates can by uploaded from excel as well as some estimating packages including Accubid.

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Schedule of Values
The addition of billing lines, or a Schedule of Values is the final step in setting up your Job.
Billing lines can be manually created or copied.
If you use similar lines on your jobs, you can copy from job to job. You will still want to go in and verify the values and description of each line but it is a great timesaver.

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2. Managing you Job in Jonas
Once it is underway, managing your job becomes your next task. The Project view screen in Jonas provides a wealth of information.

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Estimating and Forecasting
By utilizing the “Forecasted Final” options, you can keep your job up to date without altering the original estimate.
Estimates > Enter Forecasted Final Estimate
Once entered, the original estimate should be left as is so that there is always a clear idea of “where we started”.
Change Orders will automatically update your estimate.

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Committed Costs:
Committed costs are created in Jonas whenever you create a Purchase Order or issue a Subcontract agreement.
Job Costing > Reports/Inquiries > Committed Cost Views
Committed costs allow you to accurately report on your current position on a job, even if the Accounts Payable invoice has not been received.
If all costs are committed, then committed and actual will tend towards each other over the life of your job.

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Cash Projection:
In the Tracking area of the Job Cost module, users can create a simple Cash Flow report to track both costs and revenues over the life of your project.
Job Costing > Tracking > Cash Flow Analysis

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Reporting:
There is a wealth of reporting options available in Jonas.
In addition to the standard reports and inquiries available for all users, the Job Costing report generator allows you to customize reports to your own unique requirements.
Time permitting, I will be showing a variety of reports. I am happy to the report layouts to any participants that request them.

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Reporting cont’d