Return on Investment
Consider how many employees in your office search for, retrieve, return and copy documents or have to recreate documentation that was lost. Then consider how many hours per day each employee searches for, retrieves, returns and copies documents or has to recreate documentation that was lost..
 
Your Annual cost of a paper-based document system would be calculated adding employee and storage costs:
 
Employee cost:
Number of employees               _____________
Number of hours per day           x____________
Hourly rate                               x____________
239 working days per year        x____________
                                    Total    $____________
 
                                                            +
Storage cost:
Cost of file cabinets                  _____________
Cost for storage (floor space)    +____________
Total    $____________
 
Add Employee Cost total and Storage Cost total = Annual cost of paper based document system.
Paper vs. imaging worksheet (Excel file)

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