Costing and Pricing Public Sector Services (Essential Skills for the Public Sector)

The book sets out the process of identifying service costs, establishing unit costs, and cost control, all key activities for ensuring VFM and accountability. It is a useful text for those working in a public sector and not-for-profit environment. It translates private sector principles into practical tools that can be applied to public services. The contents include:

• Establishing the cost of a service
• Overhead Costs
• Calculating Unit Costs
• Cost Control
• Pricing Public Services
• Common Costing and Pricing Problems Answered