| Business Costs Information Technology. |
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| Websites linked to from this page hopefully will provide a company useful information related to information technology costs. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| A Yahoo Pipes Search Product Information Technology This Yahoo Pipes Search Product is designed to use several strings of search terms related to information technology. 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 two graphs below were created using Google’s chart tools.
The first bar graph shows information technology costs as a percentage of sales. The costs include depreciation, maintenance, and leasing. The second bar graph shows the annual cost per user for providing information technology resources to company users. The costs have been adjusted for inflation. Computer Economics obtained the data in both graphs by surveying in 2010 over 200 senior information technology personnel associated with large, medium, and small companies. Several business sectors are represented by companies associated with the survey. The data presented in the graphs below are an average of data from all sectors. Individual sectors will have data that vary from what is shown in the graphs. The results of the survey are available in a report “IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2010/2011”. Chapters of the report are available for a fee. These chapters can be obtained by clicking here, which take you to a site where the chapters can be purchased. The executive summary, from which the data below were obtained, is available without cost as a PDF file. Click here to go to this PDF file. |
| The graphs to the right were created using Google’s graph tools.
The vertical bar graphs show 1) the average monthly fees paid by businesses for seven types of Internet access and 2) the preferences for using these seven access types (as a percentage of total use). The data in the graph is from a study prepared by Columbia Telecommunications Corporation for the US Small Business Administration. The study can be read by clicking here (PDF file). The data in the graph is based on a survey conducted for the study. The data in the graph should be useful to companies in comparing their Internet costs to averages found by the survey. |