Greetings,

I was wondering if any of you are using MYOB for accounting for a construction company like I am.

The shortcoming for us is that it is hard to track job costs by category. In particular when we make a purchase, we want to assign it to one of many categories (like form construction, or window installation and so on) on the purchase slip. The point is to be able to summarize costs according to parts of the work---this information can be useful in estimating the costs of future work. It would be great if it could be the same list used for "Activity" in the activity slips.

Perhaps my problem is just not using the right strategy. This is the only complaint we have after making the switch from QB in 2005. QB did have an information layer called classes which could be used for this.

Regards,

Donald

Donald,
I know of a construction company in Murrieta, CA called IFT (International Flow Technology). They do hot tapping (tying into live water mains without turning off the main), they have used MYOB for years. I hope this helps.
Charlie

Try using the "Jobs". Jobs can keep a separate balance tracking and can be assigned on a line by line basis (not whole transaction like categories).

Lists (menu): Jobs
They may be what you are needing.


Dan

Hi Dan,

Thanks for response.

Re: Jobs.

I think that yes jobs could be subdivided but it would have to be done for every job. Say 50 categories for every job and before you know it you have an incredible list of jobs. Is that what you mean?

What we want to do is allocate expenses, labor and materials, to categories of work within a job and the Activity list handles things ok for labor but there is no equivalent for materials that I have found.

I think what is needed is an additional layer in the database that could be attributed to the various forms we use. And, of course, the ability to generate reports that assess the data.

I'm thinking that the development effort in AE recently has been more oriented to retail sales companies. Correct?

Regards,

Donald