This month, we’ve completed equipment costing so that your Field Profit Center Reports can reflect your actual costs. You can also filter your account register by vendor to see total purchase amounts for any date or dollar range. Enjoy this one!
Basic Accounting
Equipment Cost Analysis (Operating)
View Operating Costs for each machine with the ability to see totals.

Account Register Filtering
- Filter transaction types by payment, deposit and transfer.
- Filter based on a dollar range to find transactions.
- Select a specific contact when filtering by payment, perfect for viewing total spent for a particular vendor.

Basic Accounting + Basic Operations + Advanced Accounting
Equipment Cost Analysis (Operating + Ownership)
- Enter Ownership Cost details for equipment including the purchase price, life and residual value and spread these costs to your fields.
- View Operating and Ownership Costs for each machine with the ability to filter and view totals.
- See equipment costs on Field Profit Center Report with default cost value or actual cost value.
- Allocate equipment costs to fields without field records. Two options include the ability to split by acres or weighted based on crop type. This is ideal for situations like grain trucks or overhead.

Brian Stark
Brian Stark is Co-Founder and Product Marketing Director at Traction Ag, Inc, a cloud-based farm accounting and management software company focused on helping farmers become more profitable and efficient. Prior to Traction Ag, Brian led the sales and marketing efforts at Farm Works Software, a global leader in farm management desktop software that was acquired by Trimble in 2009. He helped manage the Trimble marketing and communications team for over 10 years, with a strategic focus in product marketing, building brand awareness and digital marketing efforts.