Assess whether performance measures are honest or vanity after a performance

SITUATION Emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet arrived with a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year for budget justification writer. That is a Government Oversight and Records decision on performance measures are honest in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources.

DECISION Budget justification writer in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources must choose Performance measures are honest / Vanity using emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet reads as Performance measures are honest once a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year is maps to the same Government population. 2. Emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet is closer to Vanity after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year; Performance measures are honest would over-claim this Oversight and Records extract. 3. A dual reading is still live in emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet for budget justification writer in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources. 4. Emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet is missing the fact budget justification writer needs after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year; stop this Government close.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Trace the audit trail budget justification writer would produce for oversight. 2. Map eligibility, appropriation, and program rules in emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year. 3. Name the statutory hook that emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet does or does not support. 4. For this Government Oversight and Records file, read emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet against a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year and write the one fact that would move performance measures are honest for budget justification writer.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Performance measures are honest / Vanity on this Government / Oversight and Records packet (emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year). If emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet cannot force a Government label under Oversight and Records, stop. If emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet after a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year cannot support Performance measures are honest versus Vanity on this Government Oversight and Records close, budget justification writer must do not pay, recoup, or deny beyond the eligibility record.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government option on performance measures are honest, then the evidence in emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet, then the action for budget justification writer - Hypothesis scorecard against emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes performance measures are honest if a performance target that was quietly changed mid-year is later withdrawn - Named option among Performance measures are honest, Vanity and the fact that kills the others