GovMax Government Budgeting Solution
End-of-the-Year Budgeting Missteps to Avoid Budgeting season is overwhelming for your staff, especially if you are working with outdated bulky spreadsheets. Your staff can miss information, lose data, make mistakes in projections, and things can pretty much take a wrong turn with what may look like a simple error. Although every budgeting cycle has recovery …
Budgeting for Emergencies: A guide on stress testing budget reserves Each time a community is affected by a natural disaster, it’s a reminder to Budget Managers and their teams that you can never adequately prepare for the financial impact that natural disasters, public emergencies and crises will have on municipal budgets. Although large disasters often …
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4 Features to Look For in a Government Budgeting Solution There’s a number of options on the market to manage your government’s budget that selecting the best solution can get confusing. Spreadsheet budgeting, for example, is one approach that some agencies use although we don’t recommend it due to how limiting spreadsheets are and how …
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5 Ways to Use GovMax for More Efficient Budgeting Deadlines and budgeting in a crunch is very common for government budgeting teams, and the bigger your agency, the more your leadership’s input adds to this complexity and the more department-level budget input you have to manage. Especially during the crunch of budgeting season, you can’t …
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Short on staff? Here’s how to free up personnel time… Preparing government budgets is a year-round headache that only gets bigger during budgeting season. Budget managers are having to work under more pressure, tighter deadlines, greater needs and fewer personnel especially since the pandemic. In a nutshell, it’s a round the clock time-consuming, hectic, demanding …
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7 Things GovMax Can Do That Spreadsheets Can’t Spreadsheets are phenomenal financial tools, but they are not databases, which allow information to be easily sorted and grouped for reporting purposes year after year. Traditional government budgeting or let’s say “spreadsheet-based budgeting” is a tedious, painful budgeting process that no public agency should really be using …