Battling Wasteful Personnel Spending
In the State of Georgia a detailed audit found massive waste to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for personnel spending. Without the benefit of consolidated data systems to help automate tracking, deliver accurate information and assist personnel cost planning many public sector entities have improperly paid employees who retired, quit, transferred or were laid off. These mistakes could have easily been avoided had management updated their processes to include technological advances.
Ultimately these improper payments were found to arise due to a few reasons:
1. Manual Entry - certain tracking, entry or analysis activities were not automated and had to be tracked manually. This made it difficult to manage approval systems or employee requests which provided no automated notifications to decision makers.
2. Decentralized Systems - data was not consolidated and needed to be tracked to numerous disparate resources. Not only was this highly inefficient but the employee record analysis could not be done in a single location to enforce absences or time off.
3. Paper-Based Tracking - timekeeping was tracked on paper timesheets and weeks later entered into the ERP system. This made tracking costs accurately an impossible task with decision makers unaware of data which could aid planning.
Please click the link below to read the Governing research brief below for more detailed analysis.
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Education Finances Review
You want to keep up to date in recent economic trends, but if you have to read through long text-heavy summaries of finance reviews you likely choose to remain ignorant.
Have no fear! The Rockefeller Institute of Government has released a visual representation of Education Finances at the Federal, State and Local level that is quick to review and highly informative.
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