{"id":21866,"date":"2022-06-29T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markupandprofit.com\/more\/?post_type=product&#038;p=21866"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:33:37","slug":"fast-track-job-costing","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.markupandprofit.com\/more\/product\/fast-track-job-costing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Track Job Costing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ts2\">The Fast Track Job Costing software allows you to compare your estimated costs to the actual costs for every job. It&#8217;s designed to help you analyze, after a job is built, how accurate your estimate was for a given job. <\/span><span class=\"ts2\">When you know how close your estimated costs were to the actual cost of a given job, you can improve the accuracy of your future estimates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple program that will provide valuable insights to improve your profitability. When a project is sold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Input your estimated costs for that job (or transfer them from Fast Track Estimating if that&#8217;s how you estimate). The level of detail is up to you.<\/li>\n<li>If you wish, include your sales price for the project. That will allow you to compare the estimated gross profit\/margin to the actual gross profit\/margin for each job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During the job:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Input actual costs as they occur.<\/li>\n<li>Add change orders (both the price and the estimated cost) as they are signed.<\/li>\n<li>Input payments as they are received.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the job is completed, you&#8217;ll see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How close the estimate was to actual costs<\/li>\n<li>The error factor for the job<\/li>\n<li>The projected gross profit vs the actual gross profit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you&#8217;ve completed a number of jobs, you can compare the error factor and margin for all jobs by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px;\">Job type<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Job status<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px;\">Estimator<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14.4px;\">Or over a given date range.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Fast Track Job Costing software is installed on your Windows-based computer. 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