History of the
CostCalc
4.4
system
The original 1987 version of this software was intended by the UK Government’s
Department of Trade and Industry to help small and medium-sized ‘Start-up’
companies in the electronics sub-contract industry by ensuring provision of an
affordable, basic cost-estimating system.
Since
then software has been developed privately to become one of the most
sophisticated and accurate costing systems available for all sizes of company and a
wide range of products,
but the policy of ‘affordability’ has remained. For this reason the product has
to be offered on the basis of user ‘self-help’ wherever possible. Important new
features have been added to improve accuracy compared to conventional methods.