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====== Percent Affected ======
====== Percent Affected ======
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Percent affected is the number of businesses impacted per year. If, for instance, you have 100 businesses for a particular stakeholder and only half of them are affected per year, you would indicate the percentage affected, in this case, 50%.
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Percent affected applies to the number of businesses impacted per year. If, for instance, a stakeholder group consists of 100 businesses, but only half of them are affected per year, the percentage affected in this case would be 50%.
====== Apply to Existing Stakeholders ======
====== Apply to Existing Stakeholders ======
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This is a "Yes" or "No" option.
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Selecting "Yes" means that the number of stakeholders affected in each period will be the percentage affected of the existing population of that stakeholder group.
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Selecting "No" means that the number of stakeholders affected in each period will only be the percentage affected of the New Entrants, based on the growth rate specified in the Stakeholder Profile Tab.
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Selecting "No" in this column and the ''Apply to New Entrants'' column will produce an error indicating that: '''This activity does not apply to anyone. This activity does not result in any incremental impact.'''
====== Apply to New Entrants ======
====== Apply to New Entrants ======
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This is a "Yes" or "No" option.
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Selecting "Yes" means that new stakeholders will be included the number of affected stakeholders for that group in each period.
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Selecting "No" means that only the stakeholders at the beginning of the period of analysis would considered affected in each period.
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Selecting "No" in this column and the ''Apply to Existing Stakeholders'' column will produce an error indicating that: '''This activity does not apply to anyone. This activity does not result in any incremental impact.'''
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====== Combinations of Apply to Existing Stakeholders and Apply to New Entrants ======
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{| class="wikitable"
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!Apply to Existing Stakeholders
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!Apply to New Entrants
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!Effect
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|Yes
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|Yes
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|Assuming that a growth rate was indicated, this activity with this combination with apply to the total population of the selected Stakeholder Group in that period.
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|-
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|Yes
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|No
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|This activity would only apply to the population of the selected stakeholder group at the beginning of the period of analysis, regardless of what growth rate is indicated.
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|No
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|Yes
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|This activity would only apply only to the population of the new stakeholders in the selected stakeholder group in the indicated period.
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|No
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|This will produce an error indicating that: '''This activity does not apply to anyone. This activity does not result in any incremental impact.'''
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====== Capital or Labour ======
====== Capital or Labour ======
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Finally, you can choose whether it is a capital cost or a labor cost. Although it is unlikely for capital costs to be administrative, there is an option to do so. Keep in mind that a warning may be displayed, but you can proceed despite the warning.
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Indicate if the resource required is [[wikipedia:Capital_(economics)|capital]] or [[wikipedia:Work_(human_activity)|labour]].
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An activity may require both capital and labour. Unfortunately labour and capital can not be entered on the same row. The same activity name can be used to enter those impacts on different rows.
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====== Capital: Number of Units ======
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Capital should be chosen when equipment or durable goods would be purchased (In / cost) or avoided (Out / benefit).
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====== Capital: Unit Price ======
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====== Capital: Price Year of Unit Price ======
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Labour should be selected when a task requires an individual to spend time to complete it.
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<big>'''TO BE CONTINUED . . .'''</big>
<big>'''TO BE CONTINUED . . .'''</big>