3 min guideUpdated August 2026App review required

Review job profitability

Compare accepted and invoiced value with current labour, purchasing and supplier costs to understand sign-job profitability.

Best forOwner / Admin · Accounts · Project Management / Production
Before you beginUse a representative record and confirm you have the permissions required for this area.

Step by step

  1. Open Reports, choose Profitability and select the completed or active job.
  2. Open the job's Financials tab and review Job value, Invoiced and invoice coverage.
  3. Confirm purchase orders, actual costs and recorded time are current.
  4. Inspect Projected profit, Projected margin, labour variance and Canonical record review signals.
  5. Record the reason for any material variance in an agreed job note or review record, then feed the finding into future estimating.

Good practice

There is no dedicated variance-reason field in Job Financials, so use the business's agreed review record consistently.

Setup dependency

Settings that change this workflow

The same task can behave differently between organisations. Check these settings before treating a different result as an error.

Labour Rates/settings/labour-rates

Shapes the approved labour cost used in actual job performance.

Open in SignBas3 →
Tax & Ledger Defaults/settings/general/finance

Shapes financial classification and accounting handoff context.

Open in SignBas3 →

Screen reference

What you will see

SignBas3 job financials using synthetic revenue and cost evidence
Reconcile accepted value, variations, labour, purchasing, bills and invoices before relying on the margin.

Screens show the synthetic BrightLine demonstration workspace. Your records, permissions and configuration will change the details you see.

If your workspace behaves differently, record the relevant job, client or record number and raise a support ticket so the team can investigate the exact context.