Sage 50 Accounts For Dummies® 2nd Edition

Chapter 13

Managing Projects

In This Chapter

Assigning status and costs to a project

Managing project resources

Recording project costs, including purchase order processing

Analysing project costs

Charging project costs to your customers

Completing a project

Sage’s Project Costing tool, available to users of Accounts Plus and Accounts Professional, enables businesses large and small to successfully manage a project.

In Chapter 3, I describe how to set up a project by using a blank record. You can follow that process or access the Project Record wizard by clicking New Project from the Projects Task pane. After you set up the project, the information in this chapter comes into play, because here I tell you how to manage projects.

With Sage, you can track costs and ensure that you capture every expenditure associated with a project. You can then charge the client a fee that produces a ...