beregningskostnad

Beregningskostnad is a term used in Norwegian and Danish cost accounting to denote the resources consumed to perform a calculation or set of calculations within a task, project, or process. It includes time, personnel, software and hardware usage, data acquisition, and associated overhead.

Components comprise direct costs such as labor hours, consulting fees, software licenses, cloud compute and storage, and data collection; and indirect costs such as overhead, depreciation, electricity, equipment maintenance, and facility rent.

Beregningskostnad is applied in budgeting, project planning, and cost estimation across industries, including engineering, IT, finance, and environmental modeling. Accounting for calculation costs helps avoid underestimating total lifecycle cost and informs decisions about tool choice and resource allocation.

Estimating beregningskostnad involves assigning unit costs to inputs, estimating time by activity, and allocating a share of shared resources. Factors such as data complexity, model size, repeatability, required accuracy, and the efficiency of tools and workflows influence the final figure.

In practice, beregningskostnad is reported alongside labor, materials, and capital costs, and may be analyzed with activity-based costing or life-cycle cost analysis to support budgeting and risk assessment.