Tools for decision making : a practical guide for local government, David N. Ammons

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Tools for decision making : a practical guide for local government, David N. Ammons

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a practical guide for local government

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David N. Ammons

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• Tools for decision making : a practical guide for local government

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• Washington, D.C., CQ Press, c2002

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244) and index

Contents

• 3.
• Demand analysis
• 4.
• PERT/CPM
• 5.
• Plotting job travel to diagnose scheduling problems
• Part III.
• Work flow and work measurement.
• 6.
• Process flow charts
• Part I.
• 7.
• Work-distribution analysis
• 8.
• Performance measurement and monitoring
• 9.
• Using performance standards
• Part IV.
• Simple mathematical computations : analytic building blocks.
• 10.
• Basic investment calculations : figuring interest rates and yields
• Introduction.
• 11.
• Simple options for annualizing costs of capital items : usage-rate and straight-line depreciation
• Part V.
• Making comparisons.
• 12.
• Adjusting for inflation when comparing revenues or expenditures
• 13.
• The time value of money : opportunity costs, discounting, compounding, future value, and present value
• 14.
• Identifying full costs of a program
• 1.
• 15.
• Calculating go-away costs for privatization decisions
• 16.
• Cost-effectiveness analysis : a truncated version of cost-benefit analysis
• 17.
• Life-cycle costing
• 18.
• Lease or buy?
• Part VI.
• Selected applications of analytic techniques in local government.
• The role of analysis in local government
• 19.
• Smoothing data trends by using floating averages
• 20.
• Staffing factor calculation : estimating personnel needs for extended-hour or uninterruptable [i.e. uninterruptible] services
• 21.
• Potential gains through timely invoicing
• 22.
• Making choices systematically -- from audit targets to capital projects
• 23.
• Analyzing survey data : revealing graphics and simple statistics
• 2.
• 24.
• Correlation coefficients and advanced demand analysis
• 25.
• Analysis of operations via benchmarking
• Part VII.
• Wrap up.
• 26.
• The role of analysis in a political environment
• A few basics
• Part II.
• Graphic techniques for planning, monitoring, and evaluating.

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48140740

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23 cm.

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xiii, 252 p.

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9781568026411

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2001006183

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ill.

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.b47651866