Benefit cost analysis (BCA) is a decision making tool used by all major international funding agencies to help decide how to allocate financial resources amongst competing project proposals.

This brief introduction to BCA provides a overview of the main components and indicates some of the limitations of using BCA to evaluate biological control projects.  It is important to understand the BCA process so that the results of the analysis can be questioned and/or defended. The important factors that need to be considered are listed on the left of the screen.

David Adamson