Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Analysis as a Support for the Budget of Technological Resources

Resumo

In the competitive environment where the companies are today inserted, the opportune information at the best time is very important for the decision taking. In this context, this article intends to first inform the paper of the information technology in the enterprise environment. The second point will be the analysis of the total cost of ownership and its perspectives as a tool to make reductions of costs with the technological resources of the companies. As the third point, we are going to show a relevance view of the budgetary system. And, finally, we are going to conclude that the insertion of the TCO as a great support to manage the technologic resources inside the “Generic Model of Budget for Economic Evaluation of the Strategy” is a good help to the managers take their decisions.