The application uses Microsoft Excel as its primary interface, thus the learning curve is greatly accelerated due to the familiarity factor.

All the necessary files (e.g., databases, applications, manuals, storyboards), as outlined in the bullet points below, have been assembled into one compressed downloadable zip folder.

The ROSA application answers this need, and was designed as an interactive tool to aid in better understanding the principles and costing approach of resource consumption accounting.

In other cases, customized versions of ROSA have been developed to fulfill client-specific requests addressing their firm's costing requirements.

This application uses an open-source Business intelligence software engine called Palo (OLAP database), published by Jedox AG.