Cost-Benefit Analysis

There are four local sources of income to support school districts property tax, sales tax, income tax, and sumptuary taxes.

Innovation has been a topic that has dominated the main conversation across many organizations. How can governments reshape their role and redesign the existing systems they have and renew the benefits from the creation and development of individual processes. The recession of 2008 has created opportunities and has demanded things be done differently. Gone are the times when problems are solved with endless resources and labor to work their way to a solution. The energy has been refocused to determine the best solution to the different array of issues facing any organization. The national debate has begun to reveal strategies that have reiterations of the most prominent theories and suggestions related to problem solving and a devotion to avoiding crisis. Municipality’s revenues have diminished, leadership and experienced workers have retired, and the push to change and progress is paramount, while assets and resources have been cut or are nonexistent. The key phrase of “doing more with less” has been engrained in every employee in the public sector who was fortunate enough to of avoiding the painful reduction in force policies that have contributed to the demise of the communities. These organizations have been cut deep and are left with employees that faced lost wages, decreasing financial securities and trust that represents the culture and values of these organizations. The changes necessary to reverse the demise of these organization demands collaboration and a change

According to Epstein and Buhovac, (2014), costing system is a process designed to monitor the costs incurred in a certain business. Costing systems are meant to advise the management on how to choose the most appropriate course of action with cost efficiency and capability. According to Cardinaels and Labro (2009) costing system provides detailed cost information needed by management needs to control current operations with the aim of improving the future. Below are some of the costing systems that are common to many organizations (Epstein & Buhovac, 2014).

Significance: This allows the state/city governments to use the money in a general sense, so they can spend it where they need to.

The city of Long Beach has an abundance of culture, resources, diversity and means. This reflection is what attracts many people to visit downtown, attend school and other surrounding vicinities. At the close of Fiscal Year 2015, “the City’s assets increased $118.9 million, or 3.5 percent from the prior fiscal year. Citywide, assets increased $282.3 million or 5.0 percent” (Finance, 2016). The report also states, “sales tax revenues increased 8.6 percent or $5.1 million. Other taxes, inclusive of transient occupancy and business taxes increased 937 percent or $4.0 million (Finance, 2016). Residents and visitors vast amount of travel and contributions to the city, allows those funds to be allocated to other public services in the community.

In this article, Jennifer Mosley and Colleen Grogan, professors at The University of Chicago, concludes that the more public participation in administrative decision making in different urban areas is an important target in majority of public organizations. The author states that many public agencies develop different strategies on who should be able to participate in open decision making. The strategies determined how they will prevent different type of biases. Often leaders of the nonprofit organizations are asked to serve as representatives of the community in a variety of participatory processes. They came up with something called mixed-methods. Mixed-methods are used in order to address whether residents believe nonprofit

There should be an increment or flex pay plan for the residents who are suddenly constrained with higher property taxes. This way they can gradually increase their payments, instead of their payments ballooning at one time. There should be low-interest loans or funding for established small and minority-owned businesses wanting to upgrade their business. The community should be made aware of any funds that will allow them to improve their homes and keep in line with the revitalization.

Garcia claims this current system is unsustainable, and requires City Hall, legislators, employees, and taxpayers to form a partnership. “Two things appeal to the voters: I know how to protect the community and I know how to save people money.”

A number of different methods can explain policymaker’s decisions to provide grants for programs. The programs can be implemented that can increase efficiency through various activities. It is better if the decisions are made on the basis of economic efficiency that have more information. Whether any government like federal or local or state make decisions in more efficient way they have to face circumstances that depends who gets benefits and who bears the cost.1 If the federal government have not sufficient information to implement the decision but they have goal to make program successful then they can take information available at the state and local

For this week’s discussion, I looked no further than the Minnesota State Legislative Auditor’s Report # 00-01 “Program Evaluation Report: State Mandates on Local Governments” (Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor, 2000). The report, which comes out of response to a survey of 654 local government officials, from

a clear example on how a valuable idea evolved into another inspiration to service a local

The cities receive their revenue from companies, state and federal accounts. But, a lot is paid by the residents of the state, for example; property taxes, permits, parks and recreation, homeowners taxes, taxes from businesses, court fees and fines, utility companies and other outside franchises. City revenue can also take fees for some services like, amusement taxes, and hotel occupancy.

Mason City, Iowa is commonly referred to as the ‘River City’ due to its concentrated development on the Winnebago River, and it is sentimentally known for its outstanding musical heritage. The following report describes the political, socioeconomic and fiscal environment for the city of Mason City. In particular, potential constraints in fiscal outlook as it relates to the city’s revenue structure, own source funds and level of state and federal aid. This report explores the city’s revenue structure in preparation of a comprehensive fiscal analysis.

A comparison of the direct and indirect cost that is associated with the navigation system within VectorCal and my company.

Would factory security and assembly activities be best classified at an appliance manufacturing plant as unit-level, batch-level, product-level, or organization-sustaining?