Operations

Every dollar. Right fund, right project.

Track labor, materials, and equipment costs against specific jobs, capital projects, or grants. Then post them directly to the general ledger without a manual journal entry.

Used by
Finance Director
Public Works Director
0
manual journal entries
100%
FEMA-ready documentation
Total
Fund-accurate to the penny
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Job #JC-0088 — Mill Creek Bridge Repair
Fund 101 · FEMA DR-1234
Budget
$48,500
Spent
$31,240
Remaining
$17,260
Line item
Amount
Source
Labor — Crew B (3 days)
$6,480
Fund 101
Concrete materials
$12,300
FEMA
Equipment — Excavator
$8,900
FEMA
Subcontractor — Traffic ctrl
$3,560
Fund 101
Total spent
$31,240
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What it does.

Four things Job Costing handles to improve your workflows.

01

Cost tracking by job and fund

Assign labor hours, material purchases, and equipment time to specific jobs or projects. Costs are automatically categorized by fund without manual sorting after the fact.

02

Direct GL posting

When a work order closes, costs post directly to the right account in Fund Accounting. No duplicate entry, no end-of-week batch, no finance staff manually entering field costs.

03

Grant and FEMA documentation

Track costs by grant ID from day one. When FEMA or a federal auditor asks for documentation on a disaster response, every hour of labor, every bag of concrete is already organized and exportable.

04

Budget vs. actual by project

See how each capital project is tracking against its budget in real time. Flag over-runs before they happen, not in the monthly finance meeting after the money is spent.

How it helps.

What communities gain when the manual work goes away.

Manual entry
0
Journal entries made by finance after field work
Field costs post to GL automatically when work orders close. Finance doesn't have to key in labor logs or material receipts from the public works yard.
Grant recovery
Recovered
Every reimbursable cost is documented
FEMA reimbursements and federal grants require detailed cost records. Job Costing ensures every hour and every dollar is tagged correctly from the moment work begins.
Budget tracking
Real-time
Project costs visible before the monthly report
Managers see budget vs. actual for every active project as it happens, not four weeks later when the finance report comes out.

Often used alongside.

These modules come up most frequently when Job Costing is part of a team's setup. Which combination makes sense for your community depends on your priorities.

The specifics of how modules work together depend on your team's setup. Your gWorks contact will walk through the right starting point on a call.

Common questions.

If something isn't covered here, the fastest answer is a quick conversation with our team.

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