Reasons why
public sector organizations need to measure their
income:
It is not necessary only for the public service companies to
measure their income, but also for every type of organizations.
Reasons for measuring the income are:
- The organization can know the financial performance of the
organization for that particular accounting period.
- The extent to which the income of the period is sufficient to
cover the cost of providing services for that period.
- To know whether current set of activities / policies followed
in the organization are effective or if there is a change required
to ensure better results in the next year.
- To know if there would be sufficient resources to meet future
contingencies.
- Show how financial & operating capacity of the firm has
changed over the period.
- To show whether current resource providers have provided
sufficient revenue to meet the costs incurred in the delivery of
benefits & services.
- What are the various head of expenses incurred by the
organization & whether any of them can be avoided to increase
he revenue further in the next period.