How much time automatic expense allocation really saves

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Why manual allocation costs so much

Splitting expenses by thousandths is not a single operation but a chain. You start from the expense, identify the correct table under Article 1123 of the Italian Civil Code, that is general expenses on ownership thousandths, expenses for common parts serving owners in different measure in proportion to use, and expenses meant to serve only part of the building charged to the group that benefits. Then you apply the table to each unit and sum the results to get individual shares.

Done by hand, every link adds work and room for mistakes. A formula copied into the wrong column, a mistyped thousandth, an expense assigned to the general table instead of the staircase table under Article 1124: small errors that still force you to redo part of the work and justify it at the owners' meeting.

• Setting up the tables for each building
• Assigning every expense to the correct table
• Calculating shares unit by unit
• Balancing totals and checking the cents
• Generating instalment plans for collection

A method to estimate the time saved

To understand what automation is worth you do not need third party figures, you just measure your own firm. Take a representative building and honestly time how long it takes today to allocate a full financial year on the spreadsheet, including checks and corrections. Repeat on two or three buildings of different sizes for a reliable average.

Multiply the average time by the number of buildings you manage and by the number of allocations you run in a year, including extraordinary statements. You get the annual hours spent on allocation alone. Compare that figure with the time the same task takes in a management system, where tables are set once and the calculation is instant.

From time to economic value

Saved time becomes value in two ways. The first is avoided cost: freed hours have an hourly cost, whether yours or a collaborator's. If you know your firm's hourly cost you can turn the saved hours directly into an annual figure.

The second is opportunity value. The hours you no longer spend copying formulas can go to revenue generating work, such as following extraordinary works, caring for owner relationships or acquiring new buildings. In a small firm, where every hour of the principal is precious, this second effect is often worth more than the first.

What changes in practice each year

With automatic allocation the manager sets the thousandth tables once, when creating the building record, and reuses them each year. When an expense is recorded it is linked to the relevant table and the system immediately calculates every unit's share, produces the instalment plans and keeps the statement and collection consistent.

The manager's work does not disappear, it moves higher up. Instead of performing the calculation, you check that the expense is assigned to the right table and that the totals balance. This is exactly the oversight a professional must do anyway, but without the repetitive effort of producing the numbers by hand.

Measuring the return in your firm

To make the reasoning concrete, keep a small log for one financial year: note the hours spent on allocation before and after automation. The difference, multiplied by your hourly cost and by your buildings, is the real saving, not a generic promise.

AmministraPro combines automatic thousandth allocation with instalment plan generation and synchronisation with the statement, so the calculation stays consistent across the whole ledger. You can see the full set of features on the /funzioni page and assess the available plans on /prezzi to understand which one pays for itself fastest in your case.

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