AFI 65-503 — Financial Management Us Air Force Cost and Planning Factors

What this publication covers

This instruction contains cost and planning factors used to estimate required resources for AF structures, missions, and activities. The instruction discusses two major sets of factors. The first set captures Logistics, Personnel, Programming, and Inflation factors, which can be used in a variety of studies or analyses. The second, Cost per Flying Hour, is a subset of the Logistics facto rs and is used to forecast the AF Flying Hour Program budget requirement. Each set of factors has a specific context which needs to be understood prior to application.

What changed in this edition

AF Instruction 65-503 has been updated to reflect how the cost and planning factors are currently being used in Air Force cost estimating. The treatment of inflation has also been restructured to reflect the difference between inflation and real price changes (escalation). The updated instruction now describes the development of Cost per Flying Hour facto rs for the AF budget. In addition, the tables listed in this document have been updated to reflect current cost and planning factors. Specific table points of contact are documented with the cost factor tables located on the AF Portal. In addition, several dozen tables have been discontinued to reduce reporting burden. Discontinued tables are A2-1, A3-1, A6-1, A7-1, A9-1, A10-1, A11-1, A12-1, A14-1, A17-1, A19-1, A20-1, A21-1, A30-1, A33-1, A39-1, A41-1, A42-1, A44-1, A44-2, A45-1 to A45-10, A46-1, A47-1 to A47-10, A48-1 to A48-6, A49-1, A51-1, A52-1, A53-1, A54-1, A55-1, A57-1, A58-1. More detailed descriptions of the discontinued tables as well as the actual factor and planning tables can be found on the AF Portal under the Financial Management functional area

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If AFI 65-503 changes, who else is affected

8 publications in 3 other communities depend on this one, which Financial Management owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.

Publications that cite AFI 65-503

• DAFMAN 11-401 — Aviation Management Current 12 mentions
• AFMAN 65-506 — Economic Analysis Current 7 mentions
• DAFMAN 11-402 — Aviation, Missile, And Parachutist Service Current 3 mentions
• AFI 11-200 — Aircrew Training, STANDARDIZATION/EVALUATION, and General Operations Structure Current 2 mentions
• AFMAN 11-202V3 — Flight Operations Current 2 mentions
• AFMAN 63-143 — Centralized Asset Management Procedures Current 2 mentions
• AFI 10-201 — Force Readiness Reporting Current 1 mention
• AFI 65-601V2 — Budget Management for Operations Current 1 mention
• AFMAN 11-212 — Requirements for Aircrew Munitions Current 1 mention
• AFMAN 11-421 — Aviation Resource Management Current 1 mention

If AFI 65-503 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.

Nearby in the AFI series

• AFI 65-118 — Air Force Purchases Using Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (miprs) Current
• AFI 65-202 — Administration of a Base Financial Management Quality Assurance Program Current
• AFI 65-501 — Economic Analysis Current
• AFI 65-508 — Cost Analysis Guidance and Procedures Not in the current catalog
• AFI 65-601V2 — Budget Management for Operations Current