>I have argued for many years that charge-back should *not* include CPU seconds >or any other resource measure. Charge back by service. $.50 per transaction. > $.20 per policy. $500 per bed per month.
I have been making the same argument since 1981. Users should be charged on something repeatable. So, I have a tendency to not even want to charge per transaction, since the number of transactions per unit of business work can vary. We should charge based on invoices, installed terminals (PC's), ABM's, debit machines, cash registers, etc. How to determine what the charge will be is both a political and an accounting issue. With politics being the major one. Resource-based chargeback is only understandable by IT, and not in every case. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
