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Project reports, requests for proposals (RFPs), manuals, and the like must be well organized and written if they are to communicate requirements clearly. As the discussion of our individual qualifications reveals, we have extensive experience in writing professional treatises, professional standards, technical specifications, and training and testing materials.

Examples of AGJD Writings on Assessment Administration
Assessment Practices: Self-Evaluation Guide.  Chicago: IAAO, 1991.  Richard Almy and Robert Gloudemans (with Garth Thimgan).

The Development of Property Taxation in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe.  Property Management, 1998 (16: 145-159).  Richard Almy (with William J. McCluskey and Alena Rohl�ckov�).

An Empirical Evaluation of Central Tendency MeasuresAssessment Journal (Jan/Feb 2000).  Robert Gloudemans.

Improving Real Property Assessment: A Reference Manual.  Chicago: IAAO, 1978.  Richard Almy, Robert Denne, and Robert Gloudemans.

Lessons from Technical Assistance Efforts in the Post-Communist Countries.  In Proceedings of the 1995 Annual International Conference on Assessment Administration.  Chicago: IAAO.  1005.  Richard Almy.

Mass Appraisal of Real Property (Chicago: IAAO, 1999).  Robert Gloudemans.

The Mean, Weighted Mean, Median, and Other Robust Estimators of the Assessment Ratio.  Property Tax Journal 12, no. 3 (1993).  Robert Denne.

Modeling Vacant Land--Multiplicative MRA.  Proceedings of the 1999 Annual IAAO Conference on Assessment Administration, 1999.  Robert Gloudemans.

Property Appraisal and Assessment Administration.  Chicago: IAAO, 1991.  Robert J. Gloudemans and Richard Almy (co-authors and technical editors).

Responding to the Challenge of More Accurate Measurements of Assessment Performance: The New IAAO Standard on Ratio StudiesPolicy Developments in the Property Tax: Administrative Practice and Assessment Quality.  Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1989.  Robert Denne.

Standard on Ratio Studies.  Chicago: IAAO, 1990.  Robert Gloudemans (with the IAAO Assessment Standards Committee).

Technology in Assessment Administration.  Real Property Taxation: A Community of Interest.  University of British Colombia, 1989.  Robert Denne.

Time Trend Analysis in Mass Appraisal.  Paper presented at the Annual IAAO Conference on Assessment Administration, 1993.  Robert Gloudemans (with James R. Thimgan).

Uniformity as a Policy Objective.  In Taxation of Business Property: Is Uniformity Still a Valid Norm?  Edited by John H. Bowman.  Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1995.  Richard Almy.

The Valuation of Residential Property Using Regression AnalysisComputer-Assisted Mass Appraisal: An International Review.  Hampshire, England: Ashgate Press, 1997.  Richard Almy and Robert Gloudemans (with Marjorie Cusack and John Horbas).


Services offered in the following areas:
Performance Audits, System Analysis, and Business Process Engineering
Ratio Studies and Equalization
Strategic Planning
Revaluation Project Requirements, Planning, and Oversight
Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) System
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Teaching