| Business Costs Energy. |
| Click on the blue button for a summary of information at the site |
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| Websites linked to from this page hopefully will provide a company useful information related to energy costs. |
| A Management Accounting Information Center article “Cost-Related Information Relevant to Management Accounting on the Internet” attempts to help those involved in cost management, accounting, and decision-making use the Internet for needed information. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article. |
| A Management Accounting Information Center article “An Evaluation of Using Cost Rate Terms for Finding Cost Data on the Internet” suggests a search strategy for finding cost information on the Internet. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article. |
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| A Management Accounting Information Center article “Finding Cost Data on the Internet (2008)” identifies ways in which the Internet can be a source of cost data for businesses. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article. |
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| A Yahoo Pipes Search Product Energy This Yahoo Pipes Search Product is designed to use several strings of search terms related to energy. Added to each string are the keywords you enter. The strings are used simultaneously in the search and then the results are fed into the pipe and filtered. Hopefully, this Yahoo Pipes Search Product identifies useful information that would have taken several hours to find by manually searching using Yahoo Search. Click here to go this Yahoo Pipes product. Right clicking should lead to being able to open in a new window. |
| The graph below was created using Google’s chart tools.
The vertical bar graph shows the energy costs as a percentage of sales for small companies in 10 business sectors. The data in the graph is based on US Census survey data reported by the US Census Bureau in 2002. The data was compiled in the study “Characterization and Analysis of Small Business Energy Costs”, authored by Andy Bollman, published in 2008. The Small Business Administration's standards for small businesses, e.g. less than $10 million revenues for construction companies and less than $25 million revenues for manufacturing companies, were used. All total, energy cost data in 18 business sectors were analyzed. Sub sectors in the agriculture sector had the highest energy costs as a percentage of revenues, around 20% The data in the graph and in the report shows a wide range of energy costs for small businesses, depending on the business sector. This data should be useful for small companies as benchmark data to evaluate their energy cost performance. The cost data is dated (2002). With rising energy costs in recent years (2011), the percentages may also have risen, especially if sales prices have not also risen. Click here to go to the report with the energy costs data (PDF file). |
| The graphs to the right are a World Bank – Google collaborative project.
Right click on the “Explore datas” to go to Google sites, where you can select over 150 countries to compare how the country’s total energy and electricity use per capital compares to the average world percentage and to other countries. Right click on “World Bank, World Development Indicators” to go to the World Bank website and to their world development indicators databases. The graph should be updated automatically as the World Bank updates their database. |