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Take the free Job Cost Readiness Scorecard

12 quick questions. Not a full diagnosis: a way to see why the number that says what a job cost might not be the real number. Answer all 12 and your readout appears right here. No email needed.

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Can you trust your job-cost report?

Answer Yes, Not sure or No. Questions 6 to 9 also offer N/A if they don't apply to your business (no subs, no employees doing the work, no change orders). N/A is not a No.

01Do your estimates and your accounting use the same cost categories?
02Does every sold job get a budget, including labor hours where labor is a direct job cost?
03Are direct job costs (labor, materials, subs, equipment, other direct costs) kept separate from overhead?
04When someone makes a job-related purchase, are the job and what was bought recorded at the time?
05Is every vendor bill (and every sub invoice, if you use subcontractors) attached to a job and cost category before it is paid?
06If you use subcontractors: can you see what you've committed to each sub, not just what they've billed so far?
07If your own crew does the work: do employees track time by job, not just total hours for payroll?
08If labor is part of your job costs: while a job is running, can you see budgeted vs actual labor hours?
09If you do change orders: are they priced, approved and tracked with their own costs?
10Can you pull estimate vs actual and gross margin for a finished job without rebuilding it in a spreadsheet?
11If a clear process existed, would someone on your team own reviewing job costs every week?
12Would leadership require the team (and subs, if you use them) to follow it: time by job, receipts with the job, invoices against scope?
Your answers stay in your browser until you press "Email my results" further down this page. Then your name, email, type of work and a summary of your readout are sent. The readout counts gaps (for example 6 of 10). It is not a pass or fail grade.

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What Job Cost Ready is

I help contractors build the systems behind accurate job costing, connecting estimating, accounting, labor, expenses and subs so you can trust what each job cost and see where the difference came from.

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A note on advice

Kelly is not an accountant, CPA or lawyer. What she provides is operational guidance and implementation based on her personal experience running businesses and operations departments, not accounting, tax, legal or financial advice. For those, please talk with your own CPA, attorney or financial professional.