MYOB Account right does not process job costing properly in terms of standard accounting principles as has been described in all accounting text books which means that the profit and loss that is bei...
Hi Michael,
I don’t really agree with this for a couple of reasons.
The vast majority of MYOB users do not use jobs at all, many of those that do are not using them in the way you describe, but as profit centres (for example numerous NFPs use jobs to segment their P&L by grant). The remaining businesses who do use jobs in this way make up a very small percentage of users.
In my view adding in job costing functionality is not as simple an exercise as you suggest. Almost every business I have ever worked with who runs a job or project costing business has their own way of operating – it is not easy to accommodate all these variations. This would be a major enhancement.
The upshot of that is that MYOB would incur a lot of extra cost to developer this feature. Who do they turn to in order to recover this cost? All users? That hardly seems fair when so few would use it (and there are so many other solutions on the market at the lower prices points). Just the users who need it? That would mean this would have to be a new product – AR LiveJobs or some such, at some higher price.
Which brings me to the second reason: such a product already exists. It is called MYOB + Ostendo, or for those who want a solution all in the one app MYOB Exo or MYOB Advanced. There are a whole range of other solutions besides these (either all in one or an accounting solution with an add on), but this being an MYOB forum I won’t name them.
So whilst this may look like an easy benefit to deliver to AR users, I won’t be voting for it. There are many other features that would benefit a large number of users that I think are more important to develop.
I’ll be interested to see what others think.
Thanks for kicking this discussion off, cheers, Rhys