Budgets

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS INSTITUTE (CAI) SHARES CONDO SAFETY RESOURCES IN WAKE OF SURFSIDE TRAGEDY

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Does our community have a reserve study to plan for the repair and replacement of major components owned by the community?

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  • Does our community have a reserve study to plan for the repair and replacement of major components owned by the community?
  • Does our community have a plan to fund the repair and replacement of major components owned by the community?
  • More than 73 million Americans live in community associations, also known as condominiums, housing cooperatives, and homeowners associations.
  • Our mission is to inspire professionalism, effective leadership, and responsible citizenshipideals reflected in community associations that are preferred places to call home.

Crook County, Oregon, Goes Live with OpenGov Budgeting & Planning

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Crook County, OR, has successfully gone live on OpenGov Budgeting & Planning.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Crook County, OR, has successfully gone live on OpenGov Budgeting & Planning.
  • Prior to partnering with OpenGov, Crook County relied upon numerous spreadsheets to manage its budgeting and planning process.
  • That's when Crook County turned to OpenGov Budgeting & Planning to provide its limited staff the necessary resources to complete the budget process efficiently and effectively.
  • OpenGov will serve Crook County with technology that streamlines the budgeting process, allowing for enterprise-level resource planning.

Advance America: 5 Money-Saving Tips for 2021

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Friday, June 11, 2021

Everyone could use some more tips on stashing away a few more dollars, so here are five tips on how to save money in 2021.

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  • Everyone could use some more tips on stashing away a few more dollars, so here are five tips on how to save money in 2021.
  • Tracking spending is a similar tactic to creating a budget but can be easier to learn and start doing.
  • People can use a simple spreadsheet to record expenses or track them in budgeting apps by linking their bank information.
  • These tools can make it easy to monitor every penny spent for a couple of weeks or even months.

Cobblestone® Supports Public Fiscal Year End & Offers Seamless GSA Purchase Availability

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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

CobbleStone Contract Insight supports tracking and monitoring of costs, line items, and overall financial reporting as well as the configuration of advanced budget alerts.

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  • CobbleStone Contract Insight supports tracking and monitoring of costs, line items, and overall financial reporting as well as the configuration of advanced budget alerts.
  • CobbleStone users can determine fiscal budget years for budgeting purposes.
  • Employees can be assigned a specific annual budgets for the acquisition of goods and/or services with purchase order and spend tracking tools.
  • The CLM software system can offer on-screen budgeting data for the employee purchase order requestor, the buyer, and other key stakeholders.

Unison Expands to Support Federal Budgeting

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

b'DULLES, Va., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Unison , the leading provider of Program Management and Acquisition software to federal agencies, today announced the launch of their Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (PBF) suite to support budget, program and performance analysts, and finance personnel across the federal government.\nUnison PBF includes a comprehensive approach to budgeting, finance, planning, programming, and performance management, complemented with a suite of apps that culminate in an easy-to-understand leadership dashboard.

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  • b'DULLES, Va., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Unison , the leading provider of Program Management and Acquisition software to federal agencies, today announced the launch of their Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (PBF) suite to support budget, program and performance analysts, and finance personnel across the federal government.\nUnison PBF includes a comprehensive approach to budgeting, finance, planning, programming, and performance management, complemented with a suite of apps that culminate in an easy-to-understand leadership dashboard.
  • The solution creates consistency across a landscape of ever-changing demands and delivers predictive forecasts for more clear line-of-sight decision-making.\nUnison\'s secure cloud and on-premise software, marketplace, and information products support more than 200,000 users in leading prime contractors, all cabinet-level agencies, and major DoD programs.
  • All software development and support are provided within the USA.\nFor more than 30 years, Unison has continually advanced software and insight solutions to help customers efficiently achieve their missions.
  • Unison is headquartered in Dulles, VA, with offices in Tysons Corner, VA, and San Diego, CA.\nView original content to download multimedia: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unison-expands-to-support-federa...\n'

Volcker Alliance Releases Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting Report

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

NEW YORK, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Today, the Volcker Alliance released its fourth annual report assessing the budget practices of all fifty states, entitled " Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting: Preparing for the Storm ."

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  • NEW YORK, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Today, the Volcker Alliance released its fourth annual report assessing the budget practices of all fifty states, entitled " Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting: Preparing for the Storm ."
  • As in the previous "Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting" reports, the study grades states on a scale of A to D-minus in five critical budgeting areas: budget forecasting, budget maneuvers, legacy costs, reserve funds, and budget transparency.
  • The Volcker Alliance also released an updated digital State Data Laboratory to facilitate further exploration of the research results.
  • Read the full report: Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting: Preparing for the Storm
    The Volcker Alliance empowers the public sector workforce to solve the challenges facing our nation.

Traditional budgeting becoming obsolete, unable to adapt to changing market conditions

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Phocas Budgeting and Forecasting with built-in forecasting helps finance teams estimate a company's future revenue by reviewing past financial, sales and purchasing information at a granular level.

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  • Phocas Budgeting and Forecasting with built-in forecasting helps finance teams estimate a company's future revenue by reviewing past financial, sales and purchasing information at a granular level.
  • Budgeting and forecastingare traditionally a once-a-year undertaking because of the required time and resources, but it doesn't have to be, according to Jay Deubler, President of Phocas America.
  • "Our goal is to make budgeting more dynamic and live on a monthly basis, rather than as an annualized event.
  • Phocas Budgeting and Forecasting allows finance teams to combine disparate data and budget from one source of information.

Traditional budgeting becoming obsolete, unable to adapt to changing market conditions

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Phocas Software's budgeting and forecasting solution brings critical financial processes into the modern age, empowering teams to adjust to unpredictable market conditions and update budgets in real-time.

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  • Phocas Software's budgeting and forecasting solution brings critical financial processes into the modern age, empowering teams to adjust to unpredictable market conditions and update budgets in real-time.
  • Phocas Budgeting and Forecasting with built-in forecasting helps finance teams estimate a company's future revenue by reviewing past financial, sales and purchasing information at a granular level.
  • "Our goal is to make budgeting more dynamic and live on a monthly basis, rather than as an annualized event.
  • Phocas Budgeting and Forecasting allows finance teams to combine disparate data and budget from one source of information.

insightsoftware Launches Bizview in North America to Empower Customers with Intelligent, Web-based Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Proven with customers across Scandinavia for more than 20 years, Bizview was acquired by insightsoftware in 2019 to add planning and budgeting capabilities to its product portfolio.

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  • Proven with customers across Scandinavia for more than 20 years, Bizview was acquired by insightsoftware in 2019 to add planning and budgeting capabilities to its product portfolio.
  • Since then, insightsoftware has added more than 500 new Bizview customers and is now using its sales and marketing reach to launch Bizview into the North American market.
  • "Bizview brings 20 years of proven planning and budgeting capabilities to North America.
  • As companies look for efficiency, accuracy, and collaboration in budgeting, Bizview is an ideal solution," said Jim Triandiflou, CEO of insightsoftware.

Making the Impossible Possible: Celebrating Priority Based Budgeting Resource Reallocation as a Strategy for Local Governments to Tackle Society's Great Challenges

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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

ResourceX aims to increase the probability that the local government will tackle the massive societal challenges, from climate change to homelessness to equity and beyond, through resource identification and reallocation.

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  • ResourceX aims to increase the probability that the local government will tackle the massive societal challenges, from climate change to homelessness to equity and beyond, through resource identification and reallocation.
  • The application and integration of Priority Based Budgeting provide the tools and methodology needed to understand the resources required and to align those resources with the community's priorities.
  • The reallocation of resources to programs with higher alignment to priorities is crucial to combatting resource scarcity and refocusing resources on society's grand challenges.
  • ResourceX's Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) platform is a leading best practice in local government and is a powerful lever for change in your community.