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Shores, Kenneth; Candelaria, Christopher – Educational Researcher, 2020
Use of education finance data is ubiquitous. Yet, because the academic calendar circumscribes two calendar years, researchers have linked the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to three different dates: fall, spring, and academic fiscal years. We demonstrate that linking the CPI to these different academic years results in identifying different trends in…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Economic Climate, Cost Indexes, Data Analysis
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Bedger, Jean E. – Child Welfare, 1974
Development of precise and usable information on the financial operations of day care centers has been hampered by a lack of definition of types of programs and units of service, and confusion in comparing prices and costs. This article reports on the testing of a system of financial reporting and cost analysis, applied to 29 day care centers and…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Data Analysis, Day Care, Educational Finance
Topping, Jim – 1979
The applicability and validity of NCHEMS' Information Exchange Procedures (IEP) to major research universities are examined. IEP enables peer institutions to compare information about their resources. Evaluation of the IEP costing methods are examined in this document, which is intended as an appendix to "Evaluation of the IEP Costing…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Indexes, Data Analysis
Mitchell, Carolyn S. – CABE Journal, 1975
This report discusses use of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to compute cost-of-living adjustments for wages and salaries in general and teachers' salaries in particular. A number of tables and graphs compare average annual salary increases for Connecticut teachers in 1967-74 with annual increases in the national CPI, the Boston area CPI, the New…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Cost Indexes, Data Analysis
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Rosenthal, Joseph – 1975
The current efforts of the Association of American Medical Colleges to test the feasibility of broadening the application, utility, and scope of the cost-finding studies conducted by many academic health centers and individual schools of the health professions are examined. The current effort is an outgrowth of the existing foundations of cost…
Descriptors: Bookkeeping, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Indexes, Data Analysis
Eikenberry, F. L.; Gleason, W. M. – 1976
One critical aspect of costing system methodologies is examined: the effects of average costing by course level on program unit cost. The direct costing methodologies used in two costing systems are compared. One is the internally developed Purdue University Cost Study; the other, the NCHEMS Costing and Data Management System. The comparison…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Cost Indexes