Contractors often ask us if they can buy our Chart Of Accounts with Cost of Goods Sold and import them into their QuickBooks Desktop file or their QuickBooks Online file. The answer is yes!
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Direct Costs are tied to the jobs (field labor, material, and other cost items) Office material (pencils, paper, toner, etc. are overhead) Yes, an accountant could say these many pencils are used in the field, and that notepad is used in the truck.
The answer is the dividing line of what the DIRECT COSTS to the job and those are Cost of Goods Sold (COGS).
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