Table 1: Actual and forecasted Cost/Revenue of the BIS-Center at CCC

	2002-2003 Actual	2003-2004^1 Forecast	2004-2005 Forecast
Revenue
Business contacts
Commodity related	107,000	160,500	240,750
Export oriented	262,000	393,000	589,500
Profiles of local organizations	212,872	319,308	478,962
Unspecified (Over the counter)	130,000	195,000	292,500
General Business Information
Sectoral and cross-sectoral business issues	440,000	660,000	990,000
Web services (website creation, maintenance, advertising, etc.)	402,000	603,000	904,500
Sector Statistics
Sectoral, cross-sectoral, country specific analysis	44,000	66,000	99,000
Potentials and Trends
Market analysis and forecasts	291,000	436,500	654,750
Total Revenue	1,888,872	2,833,308	4,249,962
Costs^2
Staff cost	984,830	1,034,072	1,085,775
Printing/Creation of publications	200,000	210,000	220,500
Online data sources subscription	100,000	100,000	100,000
Building and maintenance	114,300	120,015	126,016
Office equipment and depreciation	50,000	100,000	150,000
Electricity	240,000	252,000	264,600
Water	5,200	5,460	5,733
Security	250,000	150,000	157,500
Printing and stationery	100,000	105,000	110,250
Postage	50,000	52,500	55,125
Internet/telephone/email	108,000	113,400	119,070
Insurance	36,400	38,220	40,131
Assessment tax	35,700	37,485	39,359
Sundry	25,000	26,250	27,563
Total Cost	2,299,430	2,344,402	2,501,622
Surplus/Deficit	(410,558)	488,907	1,748,340

Notes:

• ¹ Revenue increase is forecasted on the basis of the following:

- Launch of a web-enabled business information portal (www.bip.lk)

- Implementation of the Document Management System at the CCC which enables digitizing and organizing business information of all other service units

- Expansion of new BIS-Centers in the region (9 Centers)

² The costs of some categories are based on estimated allocation for the BIS-Center.