Fishkind and Associates is pleased to announce the availability of monthly Fiscal Impact Analysis Model (FIAM) training seminars, which will be held in our dedicated 30-seat training suite, located in our home office in Orlando, Florida.

The purpose of these FIAM training sessions is to familiarize each attendee with the FIAM model, its inputs, benefits, and applications. As the architect of the FIAM Model, Fishkind & Associates is the recognized expert and thus, able to offer the most comprehensive, yet concise, training on the FIAM Model offered to date.


What you will learn in each training session:

• How to populate the model and where to obtain the proper data.
  
  
• Methodologies for determining the existing and future land-use inventories for Comprehensive Plan fiscal neutrality.
  
  
• How to properly analyze all aspects of the model's output.
  
  
• How to adjust the FIAM model for use on individual projects.
  
  
• Analysis of the economic impacts of a project on jobs, economic output, and employee earnings.
  
  
• Analysis of the impact of a project on capital infrastructure such as roads, fire/EMS, police, and parks.
  
  
• Relationship of input variables such as millage rates, expected growth in property value, inflation rates, etc. and how they affect the output results of the model.
  
  
• Get specific answers to your particular FIAM model questions.
  

Fishkind & Associates will be offering the FIAM training in their Orlando, Florida office on a monthly basis beginning in August 2006. The training will be a one-day workshop and will include a continental breakfast and lunch.

The first four scheduled training dates, as well as a pricing list are provided below:

2006 FIAM Training Schedule
Session	Date	Time
1	August 29, 2006	8:30 – 5:00
2	September 27, 2006	8:30 – 5:00
3	October 26, 2006	8:30 – 5:00
4	November 28, 2006	8:30 – 5:00

2006 Price Schedule
Category	Price
Local Governmental Employees	$99
Non-Governmental / Private Sector Attendees	$500

Important Notes

The Fiscal Impact Analysis Model is an Excel Workbook. Computers are available for use on a limited basis. It is suggested that the participants bring a laptop computer equipped with Microsoft Excel 2002 or later, if possible. Please note on the registration form if you will be bringing your own laptop for use in training.

The FIAM training program has some basic prerequisites:

• First, since the model was developed as a large Excel "workbook," the trainee must have a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel. This knowledge should include making changes to cells, tracking formulas throughout integrated workbooks, formatting, printing and worksheet protection. To facilitate its application in a wide range of real-world circumstances, it was designed as an open-code system. Thus, the FIAM trainee must have a good working knowledge of Excel prior to the commencement of training.
  
  
• Second, the trainee must posses a good working knowledge of algebra. While the FIAM formulae are mathematically intricate, they are almost exclusively very simple algebraic constructs.