Costing Government Services - November 17, 2008 Group-Live course
No prerequisite
Course Level: Intermediate
CPE credits: 8
1 day
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Who Will Benefit
This one-day intermediate-level seminar is intended for finance officers and public managers involved in analyzing and evaluating program efficiencies and implementing new ways to structure and deliver services.
Program
Government finance officers and public managers are increasingly pressured to find ways to do more with less through improved efficiency. As government responsibilities have increased, revenue-generating capabilities have become more limited. Cost analysis is an effective tool for reviewing fiscal issues and an integral part of strategic public management. This seminar presents fundamental concepts and practices in service costing as well as leading-edge topics such as the applicability of activity based costing and costing technology in government agencies.
Seminar Objectives
Those who successfully complete this seminar should be able to:
- Define fundamental cost accounting concepts
- Determine reasons and uses for cost accounting
- Understand cost types and how they are calculated
- Define cost objectives and what is being measured
- Identify and calculate time and cost behavior
- Identify how costing fits a into performance management system
- Define government uses for activity based costing
- Apply concepts of activity-based costing techniques
- Integrate service costing and financial planning
- Design costing capabilities in financial systems
Recommended Reading Cost Analysis and Activity-Based Costing for Government Faculty Mark Abrahams, President, The Abrahams Group, Framingham, Massachusetts Wayne Simpson, CFO, Department of Parks & Recreation, City of Indianapolis, Indiana Registration Fees GFOA member: $370 Nonmember: $550 Register Online Register by fax Hotel Information
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