This month we'll complete our journey
through the wilds of estimating,
talk a bit about job cost accounting,
and then answer a question for an
anxious reader.
In the September issue of JLC we
studied the price book section of an
estimating program. In October we
took a close look at the bidding section.
This month we'll study three
other important areas: the report section,
the utilities section, and the
user/computer interface.
The report section sends data stored
in the estimating program to a printer,
and, in some cases, to the screen or a
disk file. Study the report section carefully
before making that final program
selection. Although all programs will
print out the database and estimate
information, not all