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Government Accountability

State and local governments collectively spend over $2.3 trillion a year on thousands of programs and people are demanding change. Budget cuts are wide spread and often mandated without discriminating good cuts from bad ones. As a leader you are challenged by an overly complex bureaucracy and pressure to deliver as budgets tighten and employee resources decrease. You spend 95% of your resources assessing only 5% of your program budget. It’s difficult to make decisions you feel good about. Taxpayers perceive a lack of government accountability because they don’t know what they are getting for their money. You agree this is unacceptable but are constrained by resource deficiencies to make those data-driven, strategic decisions to accomplish meaningful results. ScotCro can help you meet these challenges and exceed constituent and client expectations.

ScotCro is a driver of government accountability. Our scope, scale and knowledge allow you to identify program value and waste through a short but rigorous process of interviews, data collection and analysis by way of assessing the value of the business activities under your control. State and local government clients who use our services are able to identify those programs that have fallen short or successfully served the citizens for whom they were intended. Our analysis does not stop at assessing service costs but itemizes activities driving performance value. For years, government clients have noted ScotCro findings are more advanced because of our focus on total value rather than just cost analysis.

With ScotCro, you have access to simple, clear, fact-driven analysis to help you evaluate internal resource allocation, incent managers to make programs more effective and, ultimately, drive meaningful budget decisions. We bring to each project years of experience navigating the interplay of government policy, operations, finance, technology and cross-agency relationships as well as the know-how to tackle complex enterprise management issues.

There was once a time when "good enough for government work" meant that something had to be of the highest standard to have the privilege of being compared to government work. It's our goal to re-establish that meaning.
Simplified Accountability

Activity Based Total Accountability

Managing for Accountability

ScotCro is a key team member of the ABTA Institute at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL. The Institute “promotes activity based total accountability for effective decision making, open benchmarking, performance improvement and shared data that is reliable and objective.” On the project ScotCro’s responsibilities include the development of a national database of activity unit cost metrics for state governments, developing an external funding plan, and developing model legislation.
From the ABTA Institute website…

Activity Based Total Accountability (ABTA) is a method of activity-based, full cost accounting. There are three primary functions.

ABTA is an accountability tool to help lawmakers better understand how government spends money. It establishes a foundation for accountability by identifying what government does and what it really costs.

ABTA serves as a policy making tool by helping lawmakers identify legislative priorities. It provides a foundation for establishing realistic performance measurements.

ABTA is a budgeting tool helping lawmakers ensure money is appropriated in a manner consistent with legislative priorities. It provides a basis for prioritizing spending to ensure provisions of accountability and policy-making are implemented.

"...ABTA represents the best possible foundation for government accountability..."
--William J. Posey, United States Congressman
Author Activity Based Total Accountability

Click here to read the ABTA Book

A clear understanding of the vision and mission, well defined goals and objectives, and measureable outcomes are the framework for accountability. But that's not enough. Everyone responsible for the task must have the skills required for their part. They must know how their job is critical to the program. They must bring issues to light and work as a team to solve problems. And there must be continuous feedback from all parts of the organization as they relate to the success of the mission. An organization having all of these traits has an accountability culture and is positioned for success.

Government Accountability

Simplified Accountability