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Budget preparation and entry
Department heads enter their budgets directly. Finance team reviews, consolidates, and rolls up across funds without spreadsheets in twelve email threads.
Multi-fund budget preparation, mid-year amendments, and anomaly detection that catches issues before the auditor does across every department and fund.
Budgeting drives your fiscal year and produces the document your governing board approves. Aclarian rebuilds that process around multi-fund workflows, mid-year flexibility, and AI that surfaces what your team would otherwise miss.
Department heads enter their budgets directly. Finance team reviews, consolidates, and rolls up across funds without spreadsheets in twelve email threads.
Mid-year amendments with approval routing and audit trail. Track every change from initial budget to final amended.
Real-time variance reporting by fund, department, and account. Drill from variance to transaction in a click.
Budget across general, special revenue, capital projects, debt service, and enterprise funds with interfund transfers tracked explicitly.
| General Fund | 12,400,000 |
| Special Revenue | 3,200,000 |
| Capital Projects | 5,800,000 |
| Interfund transfers | Tracked ✓ |
Each department head sees only their accounts. Approval routing keeps the finance director in control of consolidation.
| Public Works view | Own accounts only |
| Parks & Rec view | Own accounts only |
| Approval routing | Finance Director |
| Consolidation | Controlled ✓ |
End-of-year rollover with carryover encumbrances, fund balance reservations, and prior-year comparisons preserved.
Two months into the fiscal year, the system flags that Public Works overtime is running 40% above the same period last year. You see the anomaly before the variance shows up in the next council report.
The system monitors spending against historical patterns and flags spikes, drops, and budget pace issues categorized by severity so your team focuses on what matters.
The system analyzes your GL accounts and suggests budget figures based on your spending history with confidence ratings so you know which predictions to trust.
Anomalies, budget pace, and forecasts in one view, so nothing waits until quarter-end.