Costing and Pricing of Police Services
| Autor: | Douglas McCready, Dwight Edmonds |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Marginal cost
Service (business) Public Administration Unit price business.industry Geography Planning and Development Public sector Management Monitoring Policy and Law User fee Political Science and International Relations Agency (sociology) Economics Marketing Unit cost Activity-based costing business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Public Sector Management. 7:4-14 |
| ISSN: | 0951-3558 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/09513559410067474 |
| Popis: | Examines the principles which underlie the costing of police services when these services do not fit the rubric of being purely “public” goods. In such instances, it is necessary to determine a unit cost for charging a user fee. As the unit price (marginal cost) of the goods is charged, either across the agency or to outsiders who purchase the service, efficiency in terms of appropriate allocation of resources is enhanced. Also, the police board is then in a better position to argue for funding for those services which contain a greater degree of “publicness”, since the benefits of these remaining police services clearly have some element of indivisibility, and thus benefit society rather than individuals. |
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