Are Your Job Costing Methods Sabotaging Your Bid Estimates and Your Profit Margins?

From: Monica Mitchell Muir, Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and Job Cost Expert

Dear Contractors and Bookkeepers:

At the end of a job, have you ever felt like there should be a lot more money in your bank account to show for all the great work you just did? The problem is that some job costs are more obvious than others: Indirect costs -- employment benefits, project management time, rent, utilities, and phone calls; the list goes on -- can hide or be easily miscalculated. If you ignore them, your profit erodes. If you overestimate them, you lose your competitiveness - and the bid.

Mastering job costing is critical to your business success and profitability. It requires a constant balancing act between profitability and competitiveness. The key is to accurately track all of your project expenses through effective job costing.

Do any of these describe you?

• You are unsure about the full cost of the jobs you perform.



• Your job costing system could use improvement (or is nonexistent, assuming you don't count the paper napkin approach.)
• It takes too long to get the reports you need to effectively evaluate your projects, or the reports you do get don't answer the questions you have.
• You are stuck, lost, or overwhelmed in job cost data entry hell.
• Your gut feel tells you something is wrong with the numbers your job cost system is producing, and you lack confidence in relying on them for decision-making.

If so, you are not alone. I see many construction business owners struggling with job costing. The good news is there is an easy solution to your job costing challenges. You're in the exact right place to learn about a webinar designed especially to help you improve your job profitability from your job cost system.

The Keys to Mastering Job Costing in QuickBooks for Better Job Profitability

How would you like to:

• View key job cost reports in one mouse click?
• Streamline your job cost data entry and shave hours off your bookkeeping time?
• Confidently track cash flow and profitability?
• Gain peace of mind knowing exactly what your jobs are costing in real time?
• Leave inaccuracies and feelings of frustration and overwhelm behind for good?
• Learn lots of tips not covered in most courses or books that I learned from years of job-costing experience?
• Get your personal questions answered by an expert about a job that's going on now in your company?

Then this Job Costing Webinar Series is for you!

Here's what you get:

Four content-packed, 90-minute webinar sessions with handouts including Q&A time designed to show you step by step, how to master job costing in QuickBooks:

Session #1: Check Your Job Cost Vitals

In Session #1, you'll learn how to:

• Learn the best version of Quick Books for your particular company
• Set up each element you need in QuickBooks -- accounts, items, customers, and jobs -- so you can track your jobs accurately.
• Fine-tune your job cost setup so it runs like a well-oiled machine: preferences, classes, customer/job types, price levels.
• Avoid the top pitfalls in QuickBooks so you don't make these costly mistakes
• Handle reimburseable job costs so they don't fall through the cracks.
• Improve cash flow by being able to ask for more earlier on each draw.

Session #2: Rock Your Revenue

In Session #2, you'll learn how to:

• Create estimates to speed the sales process and zero in on profitability.
• Add change orders when the customer changes their mind. Ka-ching!
• Create invoices that answer all your customer's questions so you can get your payment faster.
• Invoice using my best-practice job cost tips.
• Properly handle retention on your job.
• Track time and materials on you job so you can get the most accurate reports possible.

Session #3: A Labor of Love

In Session #3, you'll learn how to:

• Capture job time for employees, owners, and vendors so you can see the full costs.
• Add job costs, workers compensation, and the burden of labor so your payroll costs are properly accounted for.
• Manage and track time and payroll using my best-practice job cost tips.

Session #4: Answers You've Been Waiting For

In Session #4, you'll learn:

• How to run my favorite job cost reports so you can have all the answers both during and after a job.
• How to customize reports for your unique needs.

All sessions are instantly downloadable to you upon purchase. You will receive four webinar videos plus handouts.

If you are a contractor or are responsible for QuickBooks data entry and reporting for a contractor or construction company, then this webinar is for you.

But that's not all!

Bonus #1

Just for being in this program, I want to gift you with my time-saving report, 7 Powerful Ways to Get Work Done Faster in QuickBooks.

Bonus #2

Just for being in this program, I want to gift you with my report, Handling Returned Checks.

Bonus #3

Just for being in this program, I want to gift you with my report, Tips to Safeguard Your Business from Embezzlers.

My goal is to help you become more profitable

I have an “old fashioned” work ethic… which means I go out of my way to make sure the training I do with my clients is practical and the BEST use of their time. I have customized this program based on what I've seen and learned from dealing with dozens of construction clients over many years.

I am an Advanced Certified ProAdvisor® for QuickBooks, as well as a Certified ProAdvisor for QuickBooks Point of Sale (POS) and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. In addition, I am also an Intuit Solution Provider. I have worked with hundreds of small business owners and/or their accounting teams to help them get the most out of this software.

I developed a passion for education at a young age. I received my undergraduate degree from Penn State. I later went on to North Carolina State University to earn a Masters degree in Adult and Community College Education.

I'm able to recognize and understand my client’s specific needs. And my ability to know how to use QuickBooks for both business management and bookkeeping gives me a unique perspective when working with contractors and all of my clients.

I can't wait to show you features in QuickBooks that you are not using that might save you time and money.

Just in case I am new to you or you've never heard of me, I want to help you eliminate your risk of doing business with me by providing my 100% satisfaction guarantee.

My Personal No-Risk Guarantee

I want you to be able to get your QuickBooks tasks done faster and to track job profitability more accurately.

If, for any reason, you are not completely satisfied with this program, email me and ask me for a refund within 30 days of the purchase date.

Ready to master job costing and profitability?

Just one tip in this course could be the one piece of information that saves you thousands of dollars in bad estimating, bad bookkeeping, and wasted time.

The cost of doing job costing wrong or taking too long is more expensive than you realize.

Plus, you don't have to travel to attend this webinar. Just sit in your favorite chair in your sweat pants, and tune into your PC.

• No travel time; no travel costs
• No taking up a whole work day while you have projects to manage and attend to. Sessions are a convenient 90 minutes, and you can watch them any time.

Here's what you get when you sign up for The Keys to Mastering Job Costing in QuickBooks for Better Job Profitability:

4 content-packed group webinar videos

Handouts for each session

3 Bonus reports: 7 Powerful Ways to Work Done Faster in QuickBooks, Handling Returned Checks, and Tips to Safeguard Your Business from Embezzlers.

Only $297

I can't wait to get started helping you turn around your job cost results.

To your success,

Monica