Reporting Costing Results

When reporting results from a life cycle costing analysis using music, the results should be accompanied by a clear statement of the chosen:

Base date / base year for costing.

Annual inflation rate.

Real discount rate.

The life cycle of the treatment device or span of analysis for the treatment train.

Costing algorithms / estimates for all of the cost elements (e.g. whether MUSIC’s default options were used or whether upper, lower or user-defined estimates were used).

If user-defined costing estimates are used, a brief description of the origin of, and confidence associated with, these estimates should be provided.