Job costing is an essential and powerful business management tool. Used properly, it can provide timely feedback on pricing, sales, and crew performance that will enable you to make the changes necessary to ensure continued profitability and quality before it is too late. This session will cover the basic cost accounting principles relevant to job costing and methods of job costing including an Excel-based job-costing system that can be used to help make critical management decisions.

Learning objectives: By attending this session, participants will learn:

1. The basics of cost accounting, including the difference between direct and indirect costs and their importance in the job costing process.

2. Different methods of job costing and their pluses and minuses

3. A job costing system that is a powerful management tool that can help in critical decision making about pricing, sales and crew performance.

Presentation by Dick Kornbluth.

Dick Kornbluth has been a residential retrofit home insulation and home performance contractor since 1977. In 1992, he wrote the training manual and delivered the training for a performance-based low-income utility-sponsored weatherization program that incorporated combustion health and safety testing, air-sealing and blower-door testing to measure performance. His company, EnTherm Inc, was the first company recruited into NYSERDA's Home Performance with Energy Star™ program. Since leaving GreenHomes America in 2010, he has been active conducting training in home performance for PGW and CSG. He is also a nationally certified radon mitigation contractor and has been mitigating radon problems in Central New York building since 1987.

Earn Up To 1.5 BPI CEUs

Free to BPI GoldStar Contractors and BPI Test Centers; $50 fee for all others