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 border= Increases billing and revenue; mutually charge customers for more billable activities and customer changes
 border= Sharpens your estimates by making estimated costs consistent with actual costs
 border= Speeds billing cycle by having more accurate and timely costing information
 border= Improves your competitiveness
 border= Implements industry best practices
 border= Improves your cash-flow
 border= Improves your cost accounting business processes
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Cost Accounting Practices Consulting

Profectus now offers an easy way to prepare your budgeted hourly cost rates. Our new Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates software simplifies the task of calculating budgeted hourly cost rates for your equipment. The Cost Rates Advisor is easy to use, "Cloud" software designed for the printing and packaging industry. Determining your hourly cost rates no longer needs to be a difficult and time consuming task. The Cost Rates Advisor was developed based on proven cost accounting principles, best practices, and standards used by industry leaders and experts. Click Here To Learn More About Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates Software

 

Cost Accounting Practices Consulting

In the era of increasingly thin margins, fast and effective management of pricing policies is critical to your ability to prosper in your marketplace. The problem is trying to maintain a cost structure that reflects your current costs and productivity is often a tedious and overwhelming task.Printing Industry Cost Accounting Practices & Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates

Profectus' expert consultants can solve your cost accounting problems by providing a proven closed-loop approach for measuring your costs, establishing hourly cost rates, tuning your estimating and costing systems, recovering all of your expenses with sales, and determining your "True Costs". We provide insight to all of your costs and activities that impact your bottom-line.

 

One of Profectus' expert consultants will conduct a series of on site meetings and interviews with your team to evaluate your cost accounting practices. When the on site analysis of your costing practices is complete, the consultant will write a detail findings report containing recommendations for embracing best practices, streamlining cost accounting processes, and maximizing the capabilities of your management system for capturing and reporting costs.
 

Our recommendations are backed by first hand exposure to hundreds of printing organizations and situations, and our extensive industry experience in management, production, operations, technologies, and systems.

 

Profectus' Cost Accounting Practices consultation includes a complete analysis of the following:
Cost accounting and invoicing practices, processes, procedures, and workflow
Accounting and invoicing department structure and the responsibilities of management, job costing staff, and others involved with the cost accounting and invoicing processes
Cost accounting and invoicing forms, reports, documents, and other related communications means including production time cards, job cost reports, estimated verses actual reports, invoices, and work-in-process reports.
Communicating job information to the billing department, identifying and tracking jobs ready to bill, billing turnaround cycles, establishing the job bill price, and preparing bill/invoice documentation.
Accuracy of capturing labor and equipment time, material transactions, production counts, and other cost information
Accuracy of capturing chargeable and non-chargeable production activities, labor hours, product quantities, good and bad material consumption, and costs.
Methods of analyzing and measuring individual job costs and profitability including auditing captured data, identifying missing information, editing or making corrections, and closing out jobs.
The utilization of information technology and the internet for collecting job costs and invoicing customers including the setup of cost centers, operation/process codes, and shop floor data collection

 

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