Construction Project Management Software Features - Job Cost Control

Contain expenses with comprehensive construction job cost control features

Corecon offers architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) firms an integrated Job Cost Control solution for both the project team and accounting department. With a centralized, single point of data entry, Corecon provides the tools to keep track of budgets for projects that are fixed lump sum, cost plus, or unit price. Corecon's Project Center will make job cost control easier by providing Dashboards that analyze cost, revenue, labor hours, and equipment hours across multiple projects or for a single project. Plus, Corecon has integration with most popular general accounting programs making for easy integration into existing systems – minus the hassles.

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Budget Setup With Ease

Most AEC firms have separate systems for estimating, project management, and job cost control and are not integrated. This leads to duplicate data entry. For example, most accounting departments will enter job cost code budgets by hand into their system using the estimator's proposal or report. With Corecon, these issues are eliminated by using built-in wizards. If you use Corecon's Estimating system, the accounting department can use the 'Estimating to PM Wizard' to automatically setup job cost codes, prime contracts, subcontracts, pos, and budgets. However, if your estimating department insists on using Microsoft Excel or a 3rd party program, Corecon has a similar project setup wizard that uses a Microsoft Excel file. Either method will greatly save time and reduce data entry errors.

Track time more effectively

Take advantage of Corecon's Employee Management and Equipment features to track labor hours or equipment time by project, contract, and job cost code. Being web-based, Corecon's timecard feature allows employees to enter hours into a weekly timecard sheet from the jobsite, home, or main office. These timecard entries can then be reviewed/approved by the timecard administrator. If your using a hardware based time-tracking solution out on jobsites, Corecon also offers import capabilities for labor timecards using Microsoft Excel.

Keep expenses under control

For procurement, Corecon offers both subcontracts and purchare orders. The difference being subcontracts having change orders and retainage can be tracked for sub invoices. For AEC firms that use small business accounting packages such as QuickBooks or Microsoft Small Business Accounting, this can be difficult to manage within the accounting system. Plus, cost budgets can be setup for material, labor, equipment, sub, and other categories to track estimated versus actuals. This provides both the Project Manager who is running the job and the accounting staff tools to keep their projects within budget.