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title: "Potential Cost to Business"
canonical: "https://kb.myframeworks.com.au/space/FRAM/28378730/Potential%20Cost%20to%20Business"
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# What would a disaster cost my business?

### Example Scenario

|  |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Annual turnover** |  |  | $15,000,000 |  |
| **Gross margin** |  |  | 15% |  |
| **Daily ave sales** |  |  | $50,000 |  |
| **Daily ave GP** |  |  | $7,500 |  |
| **Trade Sales** |  |  | 80% |  |
| **Retail Sales** |  |  | 20% |  |
| **Maximum potential loss per day *** |  |  |  | **$36,000** |
| **Cost of a DR solution** |  |  |  |  |
|  | Frameworks DR | $13,900 |  |  |
|  | Incremental comms estimate PA** | $6,000 |  |  |
|  | DR server estimate | $12,000 |  |  |
|  | Systems Admin*** | $4,000 |  |  |
| **Total cost of DR ownership** |  |  |  | **$35,900** |

*Maximum potential loss is the amount of unrecoverable account sales since the last data backup. No estimate is included for lost sales due to closure, lost quotes, incorrect pricing, additional labour for manual processes, and recovery of data from hard copy (if any).   
**Incremental communications cost estimated at $500 per month.  
***Additional workload to administer an off-site DR solution is estimated at 10% of a $40k salary.