Finance & Corporate Jargon · Vice President level

"Cost-benefit"

"Cost-benefit" means comparing what something costs against what you expect to gain from it, to decide whether it is worth doing.

Say this instead: tradeoff analysis

How "Cost-benefit" shows up at work

Sounds rigorous until you realize the benefits are usually projections and the costs are usually guesses. Most cost-benefit analyses exist to give a decision that has already been made a numerical spine.

Buzzword

We should do a cost-benefit before committing to the new platform migration.

Plain English

We should weigh what the platform migration will cost against what we actually get before we commit.

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