Slippage

Slippage

• Accurate Job Costing

  If you only have one part of bookkeeping done right, it better be your progress job costs," says Mike Weiss of Weiss & Co. in Carmel, Ind. Because variances in labor costs are a major source of slippage, tracking payroll is key to accurate job costs.

   

• Slip Sliding Away

  Slippage measures the difference between estimated gross profit and produced gross profit. "You have to be suspicious of an owner who's doing sales, because owners don't package well," says consultant Linda Case of Remodelers Advantage in Fulton, Md. "Bringing production into the sales and...