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Can a simple spreadsheet take the place of a job-costing system? Explain.

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Your tutorial is 231 words and two references and describes how you could work a job-costing system in a spreadsheet.

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Can a simple spreadsheet take the place of a job-costing system? Explain.

Sure! It will be some work and it won't have some of the benefits of a full-feature job-costing system, but it can work. Let's see why. A job-costing system needs to keep track of direct costs per job, like materials and labor. Can you record each invoice for material and labor in a spreadsheet with a column for each job? Yes. Small homebuilders did ...

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