Jeff Coutts How do you value the pride a family may feel in having improved their land condition over time? Or the incredible relief they feel when an enterprise change means that they can relax knowing they meet their bills and put the children through school? Or the improvements to family relationships when they finally
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Benefit / Cost 4: Counting the costs
In this final part of our series on Benefit/Cost, we are considering the two cost categories: Category 3: ‘Costs that can easily be assigned $ values’; and Category 4: ‘Costs that cannot easily be assigned a $ value’
Benefit / Cost 3: Can everything be assigned a $ value?
In our consideration of Benefit/Costs to date we have looked at one of the four categories – Category 1: Benefits that can (more) easily be assigned a $ value. This month we will consider Category 2: Benefits that cannot easily be assigned $ values. These benefits can be quite considerable and have a large impact
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Benefit / Cost 2: The underlying assumptions matter
In the last article on Benefit / Cost we discussed the approach and suggested that it is useful to consider Benefit / Costs under 4 categories: 1. Benefits that can easily be assigned a $ value; 2. Benefits that cannot easily be assigned $ values; 3. Costs that can easily be assigned $ values; and
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Benefit/Cost – summing up your return on investment
We are starting a series of articles over the next few months that deal with different elements of Benefit/Cost – increasingly a requirement from funding bodies. Put simply, a Benefit/Cost Analysis (BCA) is a way of summing up what return you got (or should get) on your investment.
Reporting to be more rigorous in 2009
Both Benefit Cost Analaysis (BCA) and the Triple Botton Line (TBL) are emerging as important considerations when thinking about your level of accountability or when rigorously reporting your ‘return on investment’ or ROI.