Dataface, Inc.

Software and services without fluff or bit-twiddling!

Project Cost Tracking and Budgeting

Dataface, Inc.

Software and services without fluff or bit-twiddling!

DEFINITION

 

The need to identify and control costs is obvious, and so is the need to tie receipts and receivables to the right jobs and activities. It is less obvious how to ensure that summary information presented to senior management is accurate, and even less obvious how to provide line management and supervisors with prompt enough feedback on their areas of operation.

 

Just as with a work-order system, a specialized auxiliary system may be necessary because the enterprise system cannot be expected to do everything the enterprise needs.

 

THE BENEFITS

 

The benefits of a detailed and specialized cost tracking and budgeting system are:

· Executives have confidence in the accuracy of summary reports on which they base major policy decisions.

· Operational managers can monitor the current status of an individual job/project/activity, including external costs, allocated costs, and offsetting revenues.

· Decisions are not distorted by ignorance of encumbered funds.

· Offsetting revenues are predicted and allocated accurately.

 

WHAT WE PROVIDE

 

Dataface can offer:

· Short-term consultancy to examine current procedures and systems and make recommendations for process improvements.

· Using both our experience and our components, implementation of software systems to work in conjunction with existing packages or in-house financial systems. We take data from the existing system or from additional data entry screens, and feed accounting transactions back to it.

Text Box: OUR SPECIALTY

Managers at different levels of responsibility have different needs for cost tracking information. Major ERP systems generally cover the needs of senior executives, sometimes to the point of concealing some confusion at lower levels of the organization.