Projects

Costab 32
Updated: 23 January 2003

Costab 32 is the project costing component of a software series to improve efficiency and effectiveness of Project Processing activities.

Costab 32:

• helps mission leaders, project economists, and financial analysts to organize and analyze project costing data in the course of project preparation and appraisal
• calculates physical and price contingencies, taxes and foreign exchange
• displays data in detailed cost tables
• coverts financial costs to economic costs for use in economic analysis.

Costab 32, upgraded in 2001 by ADB, is a 32-bit version of the software designed to operate under Windows 2000 as well as earlier 32-bit versions of Windows. Costab 32 also incorporates several new features, including:

• automatic calculation of financial charges during implementation
• summary table format for both ADB and World Bank
• option to compute economic costs in either domestic economic prices or border prices
• relaxed operational parameters

Costab 32 also produces all summary tables in a single excel workbook to facilitate file management.

Please note that ADB does not support Costab 32. It is made available to skilled users, consultants, and executing agencies to assist in project preparation. Should you experience any technical difficulty associated with downloading the software or identify any programming bugs, email costab@adb.org.

Installation Instructions:

Costab32Install.exe Download the program [ EXE: 2,728kb ]

1. Download Costab 32 program.
2. Follow the instructions in the setup program. (Note: Do not change anything on the default option just click on the NEXT button to accept the default settings.)
3. Costab 32 icon will be automatically created in your Main Desktop Screen after the installation.