Project data gathering done by economic developers is a mess. A poorly designed and hard-to-complete questionnaire can frustrate your prospect and leave economic developers with confusing, incomplete, or illegible responses. With the benefit of hindsight, economic developers often notice how … Read More
Impact DashBoard Knowledge Base
7 Cost-Benefit Principles for Economic Development
The following article originally appeared on LinkedIn and the seven principles underpin every aspect of our Impact DashBoard software. Cost-benefit reports are ubiquitous in economic development but the quality and relevance of these reports vary significantly. The lack of an … Read More
Remove a Revenue or Cost
Individual benefit and cost line items can be removed from a Scenario to streamline the resulting reports. Generally speaking, your Impact DashBoard account will be configured so that relevant benefits and costs will be calculated for each Scenario. In some … Read More
Analyze Tax Increment Financing
You can easily model incremental property or sales taxes contributed to a TIF District. Here’s how you can do it: 1. Enter you Project data on the Scenario Info page Enter all of the Project data in the scenario as you … Read More
Analyze a Hotel Tax Incentive
Impact DashBoard allows you to model a hotel tax incentive in the context of the impact of a project. Here are the basic steps required to model a hotel tax incentive. Enter Project-specific information into the Scenario Info page to … Read More
Analyze a Sales Tax Incentive
Impact DashBoard allows you to model a sales tax incentive in the context of the impact of a project. Here are the basic steps required to model a sales tax incentive. Enter Project-specific information into the Scenario Info page to … Read More
Analyze a Property Tax Incentive
Impact DashBoard allows you to model a property tax incentive in the context of the impact of a project. Here are the basic steps required to model a property tax incentive. Enter Project-specific information into the Scenario Info page to … Read More
How to Interpret Non-Tax Incentive Analysis
The Non-Tax Incentive is generic term for any additional cash or near cash incentive you would like to evaluate. Examples of Non-Tax Incentives could be a job creation grant, an infrastructure grant, the value of waived fees, the value of … Read More
Analyze an ED Incentive (Non-Tax Incentive)
Impact DashBoard allows you to model an ED incentive in the context of the impact of a project. Here are the basic steps required to model an ED incentive. Enter Project-specific information into the Scenario Info page to generate a … Read More