David N. Ammons, Dale J. Roenigk

Tools for Decision Making (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide for Local Government

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book guides readers to mastery of a wide array of practical analytic techniques useful to local governments. This updated third edition features analytic methods selected for their relevance to everyday problems encountered in city and county governments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000417050
• Artikelnr.: 62321970

Autorenporträt

David N. Ammons is a Professor of Public Administration and Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He has written several books and his articles have appeared in Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Performance and Management Review, and other public affairs journals. He has served on the National Performance Management Advisory Commission and the North Carolina Governor's Advisory Committee on Performance Management. He was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2006.

Dale J. Roenigk is the Director of the North Carolina Benchmarking Project and a Faculty Member at the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He is the author of an annual benchmarking report on municipal services published by the School of Government. He also helped develop the County and Municipal Fiscal Analysis tool, a web-based dashboard designed to help North Carolina local governments analyze their fiscal condition. His research interests include benchmarking, performance measurement and management, and evaluation.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I - Introduction Chapter 1. The Role of Analysis in Local
Government Part II - The Basics Chapter 2. Central Tendency and Dispersion
Chapter 3. Performance Measurement and Monitoring Chapter 4. Smoothing Data
Trends by Using Moving Averages Chapter 5. Sampling for Analysis Chapter 6.
Basic Statistical Testing: Correlation and Chi-Square Chapter 7.
Sensitivity Analysis Chapter 8. Break-Even Analysis Chapter 9. Detecting
Meaningful Differences in Average Performance Part III - Analyzing a Unit's
Capacity to Meet the Demand for Service Chapter 10. Demand Analysis Chapter
11. Work Distribution Analysis Chapter 12. Using Performance Standards
Chapter 13. Staffing Analysis Chapter 14. Staffing Factor Calculation:
Projections for Uninterruptable Services Part IV - What Does It Cost?
Chapter 15. Adjusting for Inflation When Comparing Revenues or Expenditures
Chapter 16. Basic Investment Calculations: Figuring Interest Rates and
Yields Chapter 17. The Time Value of Money: Opportunity Costs, Discounting,
Compounding, Future Value, and Present Value Chapter 18. Simple Options for
Annualizing Costs of Capital Items: Usage-Rate and Straight-Line
Depreciation Chapter 19. Identifying the Full Costs of a Program Chapter
20. Calculating Go-Away Costs for Privatization Decisions Chapter 21.
Life-Cycle Costing Chapter 22. Lease or Buy? Chapter 23. Cost-Effectiveness
Analysis: A Truncated Version of Cost-Benefit Analysis Part V - Process
Improvement Chapter 24. Pareto Charts Chapter 25. Cause-and-Effect Diagrams
Chapter 26. Process Flow Charts Chapter 27. Control Charts Part VI - Other
Analytic Opportunities and Techniques Chapter 28. Citizen Surveys and
Customer Surveys Chapter 29. Analyzing Survey Data: Revealing Graphics and
Simple Statistics Chapter 30. Financial Condition Analysis Chapter 31.
Random Chance or Bias? A Practical Use of Binomial Probability Distribution
Chapter 32. Forecasting Chapter 33. Analysis of Operations via Benchmarking
Part VII - Presenting Analytic Evidence Chapter 34. Presenting Analytic
Evidence: Tables or Graphs? Part VIII - Wrap Up Chapter 35. The Place of
Analysis in a Political Environment Appendix A. Distribution of Chi-Square
Appendix B. Distribution of t Appendix C. Future Value Interest Factors
Appendix D. Sum of Annuity Factor (SAF) Appendix E. The Normal Distribution
and Table of z-Score Probabilities Appendix F. Excel's Data Analysis
ToolPak-Installation, Use, and Example