Cost Recovery and Activity-Based Costing Models

Polis Partners has worked with multiple Commonwealth departments and regulators to develop, secure approval for, and implement cost recovery models to support financial sustainability and evolving regulatory mandates.

This has included designing and delivering cost recovery assessments aligned to the Commonwealth Cost Recovery Framework, including activity classification, modelling, risk assessment and implementation roadmaps. This has supported the approval processes and the transition to industry-funded regulatory models.

We have also developed and delivered activity-based costing frameworks to establish robust cost allocation methodologies, enable credible scenario-based budget forecasting, inform regulatory pricing, and quantify the impacts of policy, organisational, operational and technology changes.

Our work provides clients with clear visibility of cost drivers and fiscal impacts, alongside practical, repeatable tools to maintain models over time and support defensible cost recovery and regulatory pricing decisions.