By comparing your current work in progress (WIP) in the job costing ledger with WIP control account in the general ledger you can confirm that your WIP in both systems agrees and thus the integrity of your balance sheet and job balances.
Your work in progress control account is defined against Job Types in the maintenance menu of the Job Costing ledger, each job is associated with a single job type.
More information can be found on this subject in detail in the Work In Progress – an explanation white paper available from the support desk.
1. Enter all your final transactions in the Job Costing, Cash Book and other integrated Ledgers
2. Do a General Ledger Post Journals to update your trial balance
3. Print a General Ledger system trial balance
4. Run a Job balance report in the Job Costing making sure to just ask for Not Invoiced transactions (this shows only that WIP that has not been moved to Cost of sales)
5. Compare the bottom line balance of the job balance report with the WIP control account in the General Ledger.