Financial Planning and Analysis
Financial Planning and Analysis
Our Financial Planning and Analysis consultants specialize in helping local and state governments, regional agencies and public safety entities address and solve issues involving policy objectives, public finance, cost recovery, and organizational performance. We have a broad understanding and level of expertise in how local and state governments set and implement policies; how the many different governmental functions are performed; and what role elected officials, the public, community organizations and employees have in making government responsive to community needs.
“The depth and rigor of our financial analysis helps public agencies solve critical challenges of sustainable financial stewardship of public services.”
Martin Chaw
Project Manager
Our Financial Planning and Analysis consultants specialize in helping local and state governments, regional agencies and public safety entities address and solve issues involving policy objectives, public finance, cost recovery, and organizational performance. We have a broad understanding and level of expertise in how local and state governments set and implement policies; how the many different governmental functions are performed; and what role elected officials, the public, community organizations and employees have in making government responsive to community needs.
“The depth and rigor of our financial analysis helps public agencies solve critical challenges of sustainable financial stewardship of public services.”
Peter Moy
Principal
Financial planning and specific financial analyses can help your elected officials understand what actions need to be taken to maintain or improve a jurisdiction’s financial condition and sustainability. FCS GROUP’s consultants have performed financial forecasts and trend analyses for revenues, such as property and business taxes, equipment rental, information technology support, law enforcement and fire districts, as well as the general fund and a variety of capital funds.
Most cities and counties regulate development through fee based services, such as those involving planning permits, engineering reviews, building code plan review, and fire inspection. FCS GROUP assists municipalities with establishing fees to recover costs directly related to land development projects. These might include building fees; planning, land use, and entitlement fees; engineering fees; fire permit fees; and inspection and review fees.
By determining the full cost of service, we help local and state public agencies establish or update user fees for services ranging from libraries and health inspection to youth sports programs and community pools. Our analyses include identifying direct and indirect costs; reviewing public versus private benefits; and developing policies on how much of the total cost might be subsidized by other revenues. In our experience, user fee studies can also be an essential management tool to help jurisdictions improve cost recovery.
FCS GROUP evaluates management approaches and practices to help your public agency improve its effectiveness and efficiency. Our consultants are skilled in helping agencies outline goals and objectives for improving performance and developing recommendations and solutions. We can also analyze your existing processes, practices, and systems and determine which, if any, best practice models can be applied to improve them.
FCS GROUP can assist your organization by identifying benchmarking data or conducting surveys to gather comparative information. Our management consultants perform comparative studies, summarize our observations, and make recommendations for optimization.
FCS GROUP can perform a cost/benefit evaluation as part of an annexation study, and we have assisted several clients determine the impacts of an annexation on their finances. We also assist municipalities in analyzing the benefits of development and the costs of new services required to support it. We provide alternative scenarios and determine cost sharing and/or funding options and types of financing available.
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“We were treated professionally and in a timely manner. All of our projects with FCS GROUP were successful. I feel that the (City) got their money’s worth dealing with FCS GROUP. Their financial analysis was essential for some critical projects. The work and the service was exactly what we needed. (The project manager) was an enjoyable professional to work with. I have recommended FCS GROUP to other agencies that need financial analysis, and I don’t make recommendations lightly.”
“We would like to recommend FCS GROUP as an outstanding economic, financial and management consulting firm that has helped the Shoreline Water District with a variety of projects since 1990, most recently a rate model and the associated communication language we used to let our rate payers know of the new rates.”