How does one perform a "cost benefit analysis" ?
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Cost-benefits analysis is the process of weighing the total expected costs vs. the total expected benefits of one or more actions in order to choose the best or most profitable option.\n\nOften, this involves monetary calculations of initial expense vs. expected return. For example, a product manager may compare manufacturing and marketing expenses to projected sales for a proposed product, and only decide to produce it if he expects the revenues to eventually recoup the costs.\n\nDuring cost-benefit analysis, monetary values may also be assigned to less tangible effects such as risk, loss of reputation, market penetration, long-term strategy alignment, etc. This is especially true when governments use the technique, for instance to decide whether to introduce business regulation, build a new road or offer a new drug on the state healthcare. In this case, a value must be put on human life or the environment, often causing great controversy.\n\nCost-benefit calculations typically involve using time value of money formula. This is usually done by converting the future expected streams of costs and benefits to a present value amount.
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Before making any decision (such as whether to acquire another business, build another plant, hire more people, invest in a new product, etc.), management should weigh the costs (potential risks included) vs. the benefits to be gained (profits).\n\nThus, for example, if you could make $500/unit of some new product that costs $1000 to develop, you would only need to sell 2 units to break even.  If it is feasible to sell 3 or more, according to this cost/benefit analysis, developing the new product is a good business decision. (bad example, but it should illustrate the point)
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Tell them what benefits they will have from doing what you want them to do.\nBenefits are the main things one need.
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Read the following article for future of Cost Accounting in healthcare:\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10284497&dopt=Abstract
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Revenue, interest income, salaries & employee benefits, occupancy costs, interest expense, taxes
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Cost Audit is the process of ascertaining whether the production, marketing and sales processes as well as other aspects of a business are managed in the most cost effective way. This is essentially an Internal Audit and is done as a tool for optimising management efficiency. The most important benefit is the location of unseen leaks in revenues or unproductive  or under- productive employment of resources\n\nIt is mandatory if the Business is under scrutiny by a financial institution or regulator on the basis of complaints of mismanagement.\n Always it is desirable to have a Cost audit done periodically, to prevent the situation getting out of control, and to help the management to take prompt action where necessary.
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My company did this last year.  We asked each department to identify the top risks to our business from their perspective.  We also asked them to get out of the box and look at everything from market changes to having a key employee leave.   \n\nOnce we had a list of risks, we used a scale of 1-10 for three areas:  1) Chance of this happening, 2) Cost to Cure  3) Revenue Risk.  This wasn't a perfect science, but it gave us something to work with and a common language.  \n\nWe found there was a list of about 100 and we tackled them based upon budget and bandwidth of the key employees.  \n\nI am certain there are MBA's out there who will have better answers.  Good luck.
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Cost to produce/market the product.\nGoing rate for similar products.
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The preliminary investigation, or feasibility study, is a brief study of the problem area.The purpose of this investigation is to define and evaluate the problem at hand quickly, to see if it is worthy of further study, and to suggest some possible courses of action. \nThe main output of this step is the feasibility report.\n\nThe steps involved in Preliminary Investigation:\n  \na) Understand the problems: Analyze the problem statement, Identify affected groups, understand the current system and its interaction with other systems, develop the business profile of the company\n\nb) Project Scope and constraints Identify System Boundaries, and constraints. Identify what is a part of our system and what is to be excluded.\n\nc) Determine Feasibility: The three types of feasibility (Operational Feasibility,Technical Feasibility,Economic Feasibility) must be done. The one that will be done now, is that; the former is done by the SRC, and the later by the System Analyst\n\nd) Estimate time and cost to continue development: This activity involves a complete Project cost and time estimate. Here the analyst will use SW Engineering techniques like FPA, line of code based estimation techniques and others, to give a precise estimate. \n\ne) Present Results and recommendations to Management: This will be in form of a formal document called Preliminary Investigation Report. It will have the following sections: \n\nIntroduction \nSystem Request Summary: This section will include SRF, and a brief discussion on the reasons for a system request \nFindings : This will include the outcome of the fact finding phase. \nRecommendations: This will include System Analyst's recommendations. Each recommendation should be followed by its justification. \nTime and Cost estimates: This will include a detailed calculation of the Time and Project size estimates, and the methodologies used for estimates. \nExpected benefits to the company: This section is the most important section. A non-technical manager may only read this section. In this section the System Analyst must be very convincing. This Manager of the company will probably decided the system's fate based on this section. \nAppendix: Appendix will contain all the supporting documents (e.g. questionnaire, forms etc. ), and definition of all the related terms.
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Might I suggest a book on cost estimating...
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There are many paid services on the web, can get a lot of info for minimal cost. Just look around.
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There are a number of awesome business plan books at your local library that will help you with the form (and samples) that will help you fill in the details. The problem with what benefits to provide to employees is that each has its cost which might not be approved by Management. Since I dont know what you have now, it's hard to suggest what better would be. Ask the employees what they'd like to see? Personally I would love an employer to offer a match on a 401K plan, tuition reimbursement, disability insurance, and discount buying plans. In regards to training, send the retail staff out in the field with installers (and get those installers into the office) so each can see what it's like on the other side. Any kind of trade publications and/or video training seminars would be great but don't make it so employees have to do it on their own time. Take time with the employees so they get a better overview not only of their jobs but of the company. Now how to increase sales??? Definately get a referral program going for customers to have reason to spread the word about your company to others. Word of mouth is the cheapest possible form of advertising and most effective. Don't forget to "tip" customers that refer others to you. If you dont have a website, get one and advertise it every where you can. Also, find other businesses that you can cross-refer to your clients and for them to refer to theirs. You dont want to work with competition but if you sell tile but not carpet, pair up with those who sell carpet but not tile. You get the point. There are lots of low cost ways to advertise your business. Check out the book (I found at library) called "Marketing without Money" by Nicholas E Bade. There are 300 tips on how to get your company name out there... surely a few will work for you. Does any of this help???
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depends on your business how many lines but its basicly ..\nA gross sales\nB taxes\nC payouts\nD net sales. a-b-c=d\nyou can do the same thing with laber cost , prouduct costs, waste it all depends on the type of business
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try this site..\n\n\nhttp://www.futureaccountant.com/process-costing/study-notes/\n\nhttp://www.futureaccountant.com/standard-costing-variance-analysis/study-notes/
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refer to this notes \n\nhttp://www.futureaccountant.com/process-costing/
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check out http://compensation.blr.com/compensation/employee_performance_evaluation_samples.cfm
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Benefits !! \nHope this help...