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Guide for Users
Government Service Efforts and Accomplishments Performance Reports: A Guide to Understanding
As governments continue to experiment with service efforts and accomplishments (SEA) performance measures, more and more reports that incorporate those measures are becoming publicly available. Accompanying the increase in externally available SEA performance reports is the desire of citizens and other users to better understand the information in those reports. This guide is intended to assist citizens and other users by providing them with the tools to better understand those reports.
The main feature of this guide is a “user’s tour” of an SEA performance report to help readers understand what they are likely to find in a report, and how to use the information to assess a government’s SEA performance.
The guide takes the reader through the features of state or local government SEA performance reports by asking a series of questions such as: Where should I begin? How can I find the information that most interests me? How can I tell what the government is trying to achieve and how well it is achieving it?
The guide also provides an overall context for government SEA performance reporting to help readers understand the reasons for reporting on performance and how to use SEA performance information, and where to find more information including performance information available on the Internet from governments cited in this guide.
To order a printed copy, contact the GASB's order department at (800) 748-0659.
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