Both Energy Accounting and Utility Accounting represent a systematic way of recording, analyzing, and reporting energy and other utility costs and usage on a regular basis. Originally, software for this purpose tended to track only energy services (which can be converted to "British Thermal Units") such as electricity, natural gas, propane, oil, etc. As a result, it was called Energy Accounting software. As software has evolved and "non-energy" utility services such as water, sewer, and garbage were added, the software and the process became known by the broader term
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