Multiyear Financial Planning
Local Government and School Accountability
Multiyear Financial Planning
A Tutorial for Local Government Officials
Module 2 - Projecting Revenues
Projecting Revenues
The first step in projecting revenues is to sort revenues according to type and consider the economic and other factors that affect each:
- Some revenues are very sensitive to economic changes, while others depend far more on policy decisions or long-term development trends.
- Some are fairly predictable, while others are erratic.
- They can be controllable or completely out of your hands.
- Some represent large sources of revenue, while others do not make a discernable difference to the bottom line.
These factors will all shape your assumptions about them. Select any of the links below for a discussion of each major revenue source and how factors impacting these sources can be treated in doing projections:
