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THE USE OF BASIC ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A SURVEY OF COUNTIES AND CITIES IN GEORGIA
Author(s) -
Okafor Godwin O.,
Jr. Raymond Landry
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1997.tb00467.x
Subject(s) - lease , discounting , variety (cybernetics) , government (linguistics) , public economics , economics , population , value (mathematics) , business , finance , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , machine learning , linguistics , philosophy , demography
As the role of county and city managers expands, it becomes prudent for these decision makers to consider the variety of analytic tools available to them. While existence of these techniques is known, extent of use is often unknown. This study examines the use of these techniques among county and city governments throughout Georgia, trends of use between jurisdictions with large versus small population, and perceived value of these analytic tools. Our results found that analytic techniques such as lease or buy and annualizing costs of capital items were the most common techniques countywide, while cities additionally reported cost‐benefit analysis, identifying full costs of a program, and potential gains through timely invoicing as most common. Correlations showed evidence that larger populated counties tended to favor opportunity costs, present values, discounting techniques, demand analysis, and process flow charting. Finally, very few respondents indicated that any of these techniques were ineffective.