Cost Rates Advisor calculates the annual out-of-pocket cost and budgeted hourly rates of printing & packaging equipment and services

Calculate rates for any equipment or service
Calculate budgeted hourly rates for any printing and packaging equipment or service.

Gain insight into your true costs
Get a detailed breakdown of every cost component that composes your hourly rates.

Works with any estimating software
Provides budgeted hourly rates (BHRs) required by any estimating & costing MIS/ERP software.

Fast and easy
No accounting knowledge needed. Update your budgeted hourly rates in just minutes!

Benchmark against other companies
Benchmark your labor, factory, and overhead costs and BHRs against other companies.

Increase Good Sales, Eliminate Bad Sales
Win more orders with higher profit and contribution margins.

Built-in industry "Blue Book" rates study
Includes cost and rates studies for thousands of equipment and services for comparisons.

Import your data
Effortlessly importing your spreadsheets, income statements, budgets, and other data.

Find the best pricing strategy
Create various cost and material markups and pricing strategies using your budget.

Project your profitability
Create income statement based on your budget with projected profit margins and ratios.

Create multiple sets of rates
Manage rates and costs for multiple companies, divisions, locations, or what-if scenerios.

Track changes in costs and rates
See how your rates and costs have changed over time and why.

Satisfaction guarantee or your money back!
If you're not happy within the first 30 days, for any reason, we'll refund all of your money.

FREE expert consulting support
You receive support from a real live Profectus industry business consultant, for any reason.

Makes Spreadsheets Obsolete
Cost Rates Advisor is considerably easier, faster, and more reliable than spreadsheets.

Secure, Protected, and Confidential
Profectus employs strict security policies to your account and data.

Works anywhere you do 24/7/365
Cost Rates Advisor runs in the cloud. Use it anywhere with a browser and internet.

Frequently Asked Questions
The answers to common questions about budgeted hourly rates and Cost Rates Advisor.

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About Cost Rates Advisor and Profectus
Learn more about Cost Rates Advisor and Profectus printing & packaging business management consultants.

Over 400 customers
Printing companies throughout the United States and Canada have discovered the benefits of Cost Rates Advisor.

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Gain insight into the true costs
of your equipment and services.

Cost Rates Advisor has intricate algorithms that analyze your financial and production information and calculates the annual out-of-pocket cost and budgeted hourly rates of your equipment and services.

Cost Rates Advisor gives you a comprehensive breakdown of every cost component including:
fixed factory costs
variable factory costs
labor costs
selling, general & administrative (SG&A) costs
assets depreciation costs
breakeven, out-of-pocket costs
factory budgeted hourly rates
SG&A budgeted hourly rates
all-inclusive budgeted hourly rates
Employees can have their hours, wages, and expenses split between departments or machines.
All-inclusive rates represent your true out-of-pocket break-even costs.
Rates are represented several ways so they can easily be implemented into any estimating, pricing, and costing MIS/ERP software.

"If your rates are inaccurate or outdated, so are your estimates, price markups, job costs, job profitability, commissions, and other key reports."

Find your True Costs. Sign up now!

Profectus, Inc. · Sarasota, Florida · United States · Phone: 1-888-868-8662
Business management consultants specializing in the printing & packaging industry since 1993.

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