A-SYSTEMS JOB COST ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE OVERVIEW
A-Systems Corp. was established in 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah and claims to be one the first companies to develop PC-based job cost accounting software. JobView, its accounting software for the construction industry, tracks costs throughout various areas of a project and integrates applications in order to facilitate cash management.
Expenses detailed in job costing, accounts payable and accounts receivable may be entered into timesheets and tables; these tables are then used in JobView's Cash Account Overview feature to track all cash transactions and balances. Similar integration is also seen in the Company Overview feature, which allows users to view a complete financial summary of an entire company based on information recorded previously. In addition, JobView's Electronic Data Importing feature allows users to utilize information from outside sources such as Intuit Quickbooks.
There are three versions of A-Systems JobView. The Preferred Edition contains the most advanced features, the Small Builder Advantage is a basic version, and the Standard Edition is a mid-range job cost accounting software package originally developed for home builders and small specialty contractors.
A-Systems also offers Visual Bookkeeper, a general business accounting software that manages accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, payroll and more. Visual Bookkeeper is available in Preferred and Small Business Advantage editions.
PRODUCT DETAILS |
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BASIC COMPANY INFORMATION
| Support Offered: | |
| On site | Yes |
| Web | |
| Phone | Yes |
| Core Product Areas: | |
| Collaboration / workflow management | |
| Project management | |
| Scheduling and resourcing | |
| Cost estimating | |
| Document control / management | |
| Job cost accounting | Yes |
| Construction Types Supported: | |
| Commercial | |
| General Contracting | Yes |
| Heavy and Highway | Yes |
| Industrial | Yes |
| Mixed Use | Yes |
| Residential | Yes |
| Specialty - MEP | Yes |
PROJECT MANAGEMENT DETAIL
| Document Management and Control: | |
| Log & track plan changes | |
| Log & track contracts and contract changes | Yes |
| Log & track correspondence, memos, etc. | |
| Track submittals | |
| Track submittal revisions | |
| Submittal additions / changes trigger notifications | |
| Scan images | |
| Read CAD files | |
| Capture / index image files | |
| OCR text images | |
| Direct links to documents (plans, drawings, contracts, etc.) | |
| Change Order Management: | |
| User-defined status codes | |
| Ability to consolidate multple requests into single CO | Yes |
| Link plans, notes, etc. to change order | |
| Historical tracking and commending | |
| Change order triggers events such as cost revisions | Yes |
| Approval management and tracking | Yes |
| Calendar Management: | |
| Schedule integration with Microsoft Outlook | |
| Task notifications / updates | Yes |
| Scheduling: | |
| Critical path management | Yes |
| Exceptions and alerts | Yes |
| Cross-project roll-ups | |
| Cross-project resourcing | |
| Schedule variances | |
| Dependencies analysis & management | |
| Resource Management (subs and suppliers): | |
| Customize standard subcontractor forms | Yes |
| Resource costing | |
| Resource leveling | |
| Time reporting and approval | |
| Contractor / vendor contact management | Yes |
| Vendor performance tracking | Yes |
| Reporting and Analysis: | |
| Reports sent by email | |
| Key metrics reports | |
| Cross-project reporting | |
| CPM analysis | Yes |
| Gantt charts | Yes |
| PERT diagrams | |
| Budgeting and Forecasting: | |
| Earned value analysis | Yes |
| Track actual costs / expenses to date | Yes |
| What-if analysis | Yes |
| Forecast cost-to-complete | Yes |
| Cash flow forecasting | Yes |
| Cost / budget variances | Yes |
ESTIMATING DETAIL
| Take-off: | |
| Takeoff using digitizer | |
| Onscreen takeoff | |
| Mouse takeoff | |
| Digitizer tablet support | |
| Graphics digitized | |
| Custom annotations and libraries supported | |
| Items & Assemblies: | |
| Item lists | Yes |
| Cost items | Yes |
| Markups per item | |
| Unit-price bidding | Yes |
| List / construction unit / composit assemblies | Yes |
| Visual assemblies | |
| User-defined forumlas | |
| User-defined fields and headers | Yes |
| Subcontractor / Vendor Management: | |
| Quote comparison | Yes |
| Purchase order management | Yes |
| Change order costing | Yes |
| Bid tracking | Yes |
| Subcontractor management | Yes |
| Quotes, Bids & Proposal | |
| Proposal generation | |
| Purchase order generation and management | |
| Line item bids | |
| Bid rounding | |
| Lump sum bids | |
| "Ballpark" estimating | |
| Financial allocation / markup "spread" | |
| Change order processing | |
JOB COST ACCOUNTING DETAIL
| Basic Acounting: | |
| Accounts payable | Yes |
| Accounts receivable | |
| Billings | Yes |
| General ledger | Yes |
| Job costing | Yes |
| Payroll | Yes |
| Equipment: | |
| Equipment maintenance | Yes |
| Equipment / asset management | Yes |
| Fuel accounting | |
| Unit price billing | Yes |
| Extended Accounting: | |
| Cash management | Yes |
| Change order management | Yes |
| Fixed assets | Yes |
| Proposal management | Yes |
| Human Resource and Safety: | |
| HR / staffing | Yes |
| Integration: | |
| Estimating interface | Yes |
| Project management | Yes |
| Scheduling | Yes |
| Materials: | |
| Counter sales | Yes |
| Materials management | Yes |
| Purchasing | Yes |
| Service Management: | |
| Dispatch | |
| Trucking / transport | Yes |
| Work orders | Yes |