Available in Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher.

Cost Type Example

Related topics

Example of cost codes in a job

Setting up a job ID with phases

Setting up a job ID with phases and cost codes

Using cost types with cost codes in phases

Using job reports

Set up a job

Set up job cost codes

Set up job phases

Perform other job costing tasks

Read the job costing overview

For a builder using cost codes, cost might be defined in the following way:

Cost Code

Description

Cost Type

001-Equip1

Bulldozers

Equipment

001-Equip2

Ditchwitch

Equipment

001-LaborO

Operator

Labor

001-LaborM

Manual Labor

Labor

001-Mat1

Gravel

Material

001-Mat2

12" Culvert

Material

The example below uses cost types for a custom drapery order at an interior design company.

If you did not set up specific cost codes for your phases, you could use job costing in the following way: