The economic analysis is common to all modules of the package and offers the necessary information and decision making material as required in commerce and industry today. It is primarily intended to cover the needs for the economic analysis of bioenergy chains, but its agricultural module is general enough to be capable of evaluating plants or plantations other than bioenergy crops as well.
Bee consists of two major modules:

(a) The Agricultural Costing module, for the cost analysis of agricultural production,

(b) The Financial module, for the Investment Appraisal and Evaluation of agricultural projects.

Two main forms of cost analysis are used in the model, in order cover the majority of the needs of the analyst.

· Cost breakdown by operation or activity

· Cost breakdown by input factor

Results are being reported in "per ton", "per ha" and "Total" formats.

AAEA , 2000, " Commodity Costs and Returns Estimation Guide”,  Feb 1, Iowa, http://waterhome.brc.tamus.edu/care/Aaea/

Colin Drury, 1994, " Costing " , third edition, Chapman & Hall

Needles B.E., Crosson S.V., 2002, " Managerial Accounting " , Houghton Mifflin

White G, Sondhi A, Fried D, 2003, " The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements " , Third edition, Wiley, http://www.wiley.co.uk/white

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