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UTILITY AUDITS EXPLAINED


DID YOU KNOW
that utility companies often have more than one rate for commercial/business clients?

GUESS WHAT. They don’t hand out the best rates automatically. Customers must seek better rates for themselves.

The process of finding the best and most appropriate rate can be tedious – and frankly – as a business owner, you’re already busy running your own business.

This is where Applied Utility Auditors can help. We find overcharges for 80% of all clients.


You might be reading this because your business was referred to AUA or because we’ve contacted you about conducting a utility audit and you have questions.
We’re fortunate that the majority of our customers come from happy client referrals.

Here are a few quick points:

First, when you’re with Applied Utility Auditors, you’re in good hands.
Our team has over 75 years of collective experience in auditing:

Telecom

Electric

Gas

Water/sewer services

General bill auditing

Second, our job is to find:

• Errors

• Overcharges

• Incorrect rate group assignments

Third, we get to work by:

• Auditing your invoices

• Analyzing usage

• Identifying the errors

Fourth, you reap the benefits:

• Cost and service recommendations are made

• New rates are negotiated with the utility provider

• Everyone’s favorite part: You score a REFUND!

• We continue monitoring your utility bills monthly basis to ensure accuracy

How Does Utility Bill Auditing work?

• Audits are performed on a contingency fee basis

• No errors = no charge to you

• Begin by sending us a copy of a utility bill

• In 2-6 weeks, we’ll have our results and recommendations

What about the money?

1. The refund will either be a check or a credit on future bills.

2. Issue a check to AUA for 50% percent of the refund received.

3. Enjoy your savings! Remember, this is money you have already spent.

The AUA Team looks forward to working with you and adding to your bottom line.

INTERESTING FACTS WORDS & PHRASES FROM A VERY SPECIAL BLOG

Have you ever ever wondered where some words and phrases come from? Here are a few we can finally stop wondering about…

The Origin of the word Booze

Booze – A combination of the Middle English (c.1300) verb “bouse”, meaning to drink heavily, AND the name of a famous Philadelphia distiller named E.G. Booze. Ben Franklin published a book of synonyms in 1722 and used the word “boozy” as a synonym for “drunk”.


Three sheets to the wind – was originally used to describe a drunk person in 1812 to describe the image of a sloop-rigged sailboat whose three “sheets” or sails had slipped through their blocks and were thus lost to the wind, and “out of control”.

Origin of the word hammered

Hammered – originally meant to be “heavily defeated”, and became officially recognized in 1986 as meaning drunk.

Dashboard – the original dashboard was a board in the front of wagons and carriages to stop mud from horses hooves from splashed into the vehicle.

Origin of the word limousine


Limousine
– comes from the name of the Limousin region in France, where the chief city is Limoge. Apparently, the people of that region traditionally wore a hood that was similar to the hood, or profile of early luxury cars.


Chauffeur
another word with French origins meaning the “stoker” or operator of the steam engine (chaud, meaning “hot”, thus “chauffer” meaning “to heat”, from the Old French verb “chaufer” –“ to heat”.

Enough drinking and driving slang – Why are we buried in a…

Coffin – early 14th C. for a place to store valuables, taken from the Old French “coffin” meaning “sarcophagus”. 


Dead as a doornail – meant “insensible” in the 1300’s, and by the 1500’s meant “inactive and dull”.

Dead man’s hand – in poker comes from the pair of aces and pair of eights that Wild Bill Hickock was holding when Jack McCall shot him in 1876.

Back to drinkin…

Dead Drunk – was first used in the 1590’s, and in a “dead soldier” became an empty bottle of liquor in 1913.

Thank you to the television show – “American Slang”, and to the web-site “Online Etymology
If you ever want to grow a braincell back after all of that drinking…
Check out Paul’s Pick of the week: Online Etymology” 

And a final thought…

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

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