ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

Businesses related to electricity, natural gas, water, sanitation and transportation are generally characterized by being capital-intensive natural monopolies, possessing exclusivity over a certain geographic region and being regulated by specialized agencies. This combination of attributes generates the need to study multiple aspects of the companies’ activities in order to achieve the optimum use of the resources employed. The sunken investments made available to users must be recovered throughout their useful life while generating reasonable profits compared to activities of similar risk. Likewise, the costs generated by the efficient provision of services must be recovered in the tariffs. The profound debate around the business of public services produces sensitive effects on companies by modifying their income, the value of their assets and the penetration of the service in the community.