Operating Charge
The total charge for operations, used to calculate profitability.
The sum of Depreciation and Amortisation and Operating Costs.
Include: Essential
Operating Charge/Average Conn
The Operating Charge divided by the number of Average Connections.
Consolidation: Quotient.
Include: Essential
Operating Charge/Conn
The Operating Charge divided by the number of Connections.
Consolidation: Quotient.
Include: Essential
Operating Costs
All non-capitalised costs of operating the network, also known as Running Costs.
For a Resource: the sum of the Maintenance, Churn, Connection, Rental, Usage, Operations, and Decommissioning Costs.
The Service and Network results also include Admin and Provision Costs.
Include: Essential
Operating Costs/Average Conn
Operating Costs divided by the number of Average Connections.
Consolidation: Quotient.
Include: Standard
Operating Costs/Conn
Operating Costs divided by the number of Connections.
Include: Standard
Operating Expenditure
The total expenditure for operations, used to calculate cashflows.
The sum of Capital Expenditure and Operating Costs.
Include: Standard
Operating Profit
The annual profit from operations, before payment of interest, tax and dividends, also known as EBIT.
Revenue minus Depreciation minus Amortisation minus Stock Charge minus Operating Costs.
Include: Essential
Operating Profit/Average Conn
Operating Profit divided by the number of Average Connections.
Include: Standard
Operating Profit/Conn
Operating Profit divided by the number of Connections.
Include: Standard
Operating Profit Margin
A measure of the profitability of the business.
Operating Profit as a proportion of Revenue.
Include: Essential
Operations Cost
The cost of operating Resources in a period.
For a Resource: the product of the Calibration Period per-unit Operations Cost input, the normalised global and Resource Operations Cost Trends, the Operations Age Factor and the Used Capacity, divided by the Capacity.
Include: Standard
Network, Service, Transformation, Function, Resource, Market Segment, Service/Resource, Transformation/Resource
See
Resource costs.
Output
[Retained for backwards compatibility only.] The same as whichever of Aggregate Count or Instantaneous Output is defined, but with consolidation disabled to avoid misleading results.
Consolidation: None.
Include: Standard
Output Mode
Include: Standard
Transformation
Overall Charge
The total charge for the network, including interest and tax, used to calculate profitability.
The sum of Depreciation and Amortisation, Operating Costs, Net Interest Expense and Tax Charge.
Include: Standard
Overall Charge/Conn
Overall Charge divided by the total number of Connections.
Include: Standard
Overall Expenditure
The total expenditure for the network, including interest and tax, but not including the increase or decrease in debtors and creditors; used to calculate cashflows.
The sum of Capital Expenditure, Operating Costs, Net Interest Expense, and Tax Paid.
Include: Standard
Overdraft
The amount of money owed on the ‘current account’, if the network is exploiting an overdraft facility, attracting interest at the Overdraft Rate. (A positive balance is shown as Cash.)
The opposite sign of Current Account, if the latter is negative, otherwise zero.
Include: Standard
Overdraft Interest
The money spent on interest payments for an overdraft for the network.
The Overdraft Rate multiplied by the average Overdraft over the year:
where rn is the Overdraft Rate, Bn
is the Overdraft balance at the end of year n, and B–1 is the initial Overdraft input.
Include: Standard
Overdraft Rate
The annual interest rate for an overdrawn current account. This is the cost of exploiting a negotiated overdraft facility.
The Overdraft Rate input.
Include: Standard