Understanding Your Transaction Costs

How much does it cost you…

• To process a new benefit claim?

• To recruit a new staff member?

• To issue a Parking Permit?

• To take someone to court for non-payment of Council Tax?

• To inspect and repair a pothole?

…and how much of that cost is caused:

• Because you have always done it this way?

• Because Internal Audit “requires” it?

• By checking which takes place because your systems are not right first time?

• By internal bureaucracy?

Rough-cut Activity Based Costing will help you answer these questions and show you how to reduce those non-value adding costs

Rough-cut ABC is a simple, proven technique used by ValueAdding.com to help Councils understand what their processes are really costing and then use this information to make efficiency gains.

Rough-cut ABC will support you in identifying efficiency savings required for Gershon, “Making the Connections” and Varney.

Midlothian, Stockport, Basingstoke and Deane, Gloucester City, Chesterfield, Haringey, Kirklees, Rochdale, Salford, Blackpool, Blackburn and South Kesteven Councils have successfully used rough-cut ABC. We have run projects in conjunction with Communities and Local Government (CLG), Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA), London Councils, North West Centre of Excellence and the National Process Improvement Project.

Four ABC Courses

Calculating Process Costs (Public Course)

Calculating Process Costs (In-house Course)

Calculating Process Costs with SPRINT (Public Course)

Building a Process Cost Model (In-house Course)