2 posts tagged with "transport"

For a truck running Dar es Salaam to Lubumbashi and back, diesel is the biggest single cost, often more than the driver, tolls and maintenance put together. Yet in many transport companies diesel is the hardest cost to follow: some comes from the company's own tank in the yard, some is bought on the road against a paper order, some is paid in cash by the driver, and the supplier's invoice arrives weeks later. By month end, nobody is sure which truck used what, or whether the station billed for more than was filled.

eSecured ERP brings all of it into one flow, from the moment diesel is bought to the moment it shows in the job's profit.

A transporter invoices a customer TZS 18,500,000 for a round trip to Lubumbashi, plus 18% VAT: TZS 21,830,000 in total. The diesel cost TZS 4,104,900. What did the job make?

If you answered TZS 17,725,100, you counted the VAT as income, and you are not alone: many job sheets and spreadsheets do exactly that. The real answer is TZS 14,395,100. The other TZS 3,330,000 was never yours; it is owed to TRA.