A close look: When your company needs project accounting?

When you are prepared to include a new operations tool into your workflow to streamline your accounting experience and guarantee responsibility for all project payments. There are several uses for project accounting.

There are situations where you might consider budgeting for your project like:

• Creation of new goods or services
• Recurring one-off tasks
• Tasks that are not under your purview
• Deciding how much money is spent and distributed among initiatives
• Analyses of comparative projects

Comparing financial accounting and project accounting

• Despite their apparent similarity, these two accounting approaches actually have rather different ultimate objectives. The following are the ways that project accounting and financial accounting differ:
• Two general approaches are available in financial accounting — accrual accounting and cost accounting. Which approach you use in project accounting doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t impact the workflow.
• Project accounting records all transactions from the start of a project until its completion, regardless of how long that takes. Standard financial accounting tracks transactions on a monthly basis.
• Costs are categorized in financial accounting using broad headings, such as accounts receivable. In project accounting, costs can be divided into discrete components and assigned to individual project tasks.
• Points to note: In standard financial accounting, all business expenses are recorded; in project accounting, however, only project-related costs are taken into account.

Project accounting is primarily concerned with the financial transactions associated with a specific project, whereas financial accounting provides an overview of all business finances.

eresource ERP Project Accounting can boost the profitability of project

Using simple-to-read graphs and reports of eresource ERP Project Accounting software, you could track and report on project accounts in real-time, including profitability measures and budgets vs actuals. To keep projects on schedule, dive down from summary level to detailed insights with ease.

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Key features of eresource ERP Project Budgeting Software:

Automated invoicing and billing: Days sales outstanding (DSO) are decreased for services contracts when proper invoices are generated by this configurable project accounting billing rules engine.

Increased Income and Predictive Understanding: View the details or a summary of your revenue status at any moment.

Proper Recognition of Revenue: To meet performance requirements for services-based contracts and guarantee revenue compliance, recognize revenue apart from project billing.

Improved Management of the Budget: From the portfolio level down to the individual tasks, create, monitor, and modify project budgets.

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Challenges those can overcome with project accounting software

Restricted Access to Project Finance Data: Obtain quick access to performance and cost information, as well as current project financials.

Manual Billing: To increase cash flow, centralize and automate the invoicing process.

Erroneous Recognition of Revenue: On a project-by-project basis, automate intricate revenue distributions and calculations and accommodate various income scenarios.

Absence of standardized procedures: Time-consuming manual efforts are replaced with integrated, standardized, and adaptable business rules, templates, and processes.

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For more information on eresource ERP Project Accounting Software and LIVE DEMO, please get in touch with us now: sales@eresourceinfotech.com

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