Application of Mstmaccess for cost controlling

Abstract

Information required to every person is increasing and we are now living in an information revolution era. Each and every commercial organization is taking benefits of information technology and computerizing their every activity to get information on activities. Sri Lankan construction industry is lagging behind compared to other industries and facing many problems. To overcome these problems information technology is the most powerful tool available. Construction contractor h as a vital role in cost controlling 0 f construction not 0 nly to his s elfsuccess but also to give benefits to the society. Generally the cost controlling practice in Sri Lankan construction contractors are in primary stage not giving enough information at correct time and those few good systems available among are also very sophisticated. RoadConstruction a nd Development Company (Pvt) Limited is t he largest government 0 wned road construction company in Sri Lanka. This company is operating its business all over the country.Major income for the company is the return from its construction projects. Hence there is a very big demand for information system from each project to know whether those projects are operatingwithin mark-up limits. To satisfy this demand there is a manually operating cost information system but there are so many shortcomings with this. Therefore this computerized information system was developed basedon existing system also to cover some other site activities in a construction project. Microsoft Access 2000 database management package was used to develop the proposed management information system. Only small changes were done in data collection methodologies andoutput reports of existing system. The proposed system was tested using an actual data set with small modifications in numerical figures to confirm security of the compan~'s financial information and results show that proposed system is easy to handle and give more accurate information. It was also demonstrated to few sitemanaging people of the company and they agreed that the proposed system would help them to managetheir site activities with efficient way.