cost-benefit analyses
Weighing pros, cons
Cost-benefit analyses is the plural of cost-benefit analysis, a method of evaluating decisions by weighing expected costs against expected benefits.
The approach is used in business, government, and personal planning to determine whether a course of action is worthwhile: The city conducted cost-benefit analyses of three proposed transit routes.
The plural typically appears when comparing multiple projects or scenarios.
- budgetsPlanned expense limits
- bang for buckReturn on investment
- bottom lineEssential point or conclusion
- economicsScience of resource allocation
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
weighing options · externalities · efficiency · cutting corners · assessment · due diligence · number crunching · value · trade-offs · quantification · risk · measurement · discount rate · break-even point · feasibility · utility · prioritization · long term planning
cost-benefit analysesintuition
Instinctive immediate understanding
gut feelings · snap judgments · hunches · gut instinct · instinct
cost-benefit analysesmoral imperatives
Actions ethics require unconditionally
cost, costs, costing, costly, costliness, benefit, benefits, benefited, benefiting