Some miscellaneous statistics about the level of services Cobb County provides can be found on the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) page.

Accounts Payable checks are run once a week on Thursday.  The Accounts Payable division is continuing its Paperless initiative with enrolling all Vendors for EFT to eliminate the "check printing" process and to cut down on costs.

Yes, there are some demographic statistics on the Economic Development Department's website.

October 1 – September 30

Vendors who wish to do business with Cobb County must go online and complete the Vendor Application at vendor.cobbcounty.org.
Once complete you should send a copy of your W9 to Vendor.Enrollment@cobbcounty.org, so they can activate your Vendor Number.  Your Vendor Number will be "inactive" until a W9 is received.

Check the Human Resources (HR) website to find out if any openings currently exist. If there are, fill out an application form that can also be found at the HR website. Make sure it is received by the HR department by the date indicated on the job posting.

You may download an application, or learn more about benefits and the hiring process and check current openings in our HR Department.

Our investment objectives are to:

1. Sufficiently diversify all funds so as to protect the principal from potential losses
2. To obtain market rates of return while adhering to all state, federal and local laws and generally accepted accounting principles.

Our four goals concerning investments are, in rank order, legality, safety, liquidity, and yield.

Capital assets, which include property, plant, equipment, and infrastructure assets (e.g., roads, bridges, sidewalks, and similar items), are reported in the applicable governmental or business-type activities columns in the government-wide financial statements. Construction in progress (CIP) projects are added as a fixed asset at the time they are in service.  The government defines capital assets as assets costing more than $10,000 and with an estimated useful life in excess of one year. Such assets are recorded at historical cost or estimated historical cost if purchased or constructed. Donated and seized capital assets are recorded at estimated fair market value at the date of donation.

The costs of normal maintenance and repairs that do not add to the value of the asset or materially extend asset lives are not capitalized. Improvements are capitalized and depreciated over the remaining useful lives of the related fixed assets, as applicable. Interest incurred during the construction phase of capital assets of business-type activities is included as part of the capitalized value of the assets constructed.

Capital assets of the primary government, as well as the component units, are depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives.

• Cobb County Accounts Payable is one of the first departments to go paperless, currently we are about 95% paperless.  In 2015, Accounts Payable division of finance spearheaded a paperless initiative to reduce costs and increase efficiencies by taking the paper heavy division of payables and make them paperless with the help of the Electronic Content Management System Onbase.
• In less then 2 months Accounts Payable was paperless! Reduction in purchasing paper and other office supplies, and reduction in staffing when employees retired without reducing the level of service you still receive.  Accounts Payable also reduced the amount of paper checks from approximately 1500 per week to 200 with the introduction of EFT/ACH payments.
• All forms once in paper form are all now digital versions of those forms and ingested into an open concept ECM system used County-Wide for complete transparency and ease of access to all payables.

The Board of Commissioners reduced the millage rate (the measure used to assess property taxes) for 10 consecutive years from 1993 to 2002. The overall millage rate remained the same from 2002 to 2005 at 9.72 mills. The Board of Commissioners reduced the millage rate in 2006.

The General Fund was reduced by .03 mills to 6.82 mills; the Fire Fund was reduced by .09 mills to 2.56 mills; and the rate for the Debt Service Fund remained at .22 mills for a total of 9.60 mills.

In 2011 the Board of Commissioners raised the millage rate temporarily from 9.60 to 11.11 to adjust with the ever declining property tax rates. In 2014 the Board of Commissioners voted to lower the millage rate to 10.91.

The ten largest commercial taxpayers are:

1. Georgia Power Co.
2. Home Depot
3. ATT/BellSouth Telecommunication
4. Ohio Teacher’s Retirement Fund
5. SP4
6. Lockheed Martin Corp
7. Cobb EMC
8. CP Venture Five, LLC
9. Cousins Properties
10. Inland Properties

You can get information by accessing the Tax Assessors Web site at: cobbassessor.org.

You can get information by accessing the Tax Commissioners Web site at: cobbtax.org.

Yes.

Each year an independent audit is conducted on the books of Cobb County Government. The March 10, 2022 auditors report states in part, “In our opinion, the accompanying the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, the aggregate discretely presented component unit, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the County, as of September 30, 2022, and the respective changes in financial position, and, where applicable, cash flows thereof and for the year then ended in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.”

The complete auditor’s opinion letter and other financial information are included in the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) on this Web site.