With one database housing all of the budgets from your departments, changes are easier to make – the impact can be seen immediately. With automatic notifications, you’ll always know what’s happening with the budget. That means you can plan, even with changes – and keep track of everything that’s going on automatically.

Allows departments to see all of their budget data and control their own operating budgets. This easy-to-use module ensures the budgeting cycle runs smoothly and securely for everyone involved in the process.

Create multi-year capital budgets that identify expenditures and funding sources, plus you have the capability to adjust along the way. Provides end-to-end Capital Improvement Planning (CIP), budgeting and forecasting. Construct your capital projects on an annual, quarterly or monthly basis.

OpenBook Project Explorer for Capital Budgets

The Capital budget module within Questica Budget, now seamlessly connects to OpenBook, our web-based transparency solution enabling local governments to display capital projects on an interactive map.

The OpenBook Project Explorer allows cities, counties, agencies and states to display on a map every infrastructure project, including details such as the budget, actual spend, funding sources, and accompanying documentation, images, video, etc. Governments can also link related activities to showcase the depth and scope of capital projects that are happening in a city, region, state/province or country. Increase financial transparency while building trust with citizens and stakeholders.

Accurately models and forecasts all costs associated with positions and employees. Allows you to develop budgets with new positions and all the connected financial impacts including wages, benefits, labor costs, union and contract expenses, and more. Budget at the employee level, job code level, or any level you choose. Allocate your positions to any number of departments/budgets.

Set the standards for your city, county, agency or state with a system of programs, measures and scorecards. Go beyond the financials and track an unlimited number of budget and non-budget key performance indicators (KPIs) with Questica Performance.

Questica Budget now includes an Advanced Calculation Engine (ACE) that enables government agencies to create complex modelling for revenue, projections, and activity-based costing. Users can create formulas ranging from a single formula in a cell up to large scale mathematical models to do things such as forecasting expenses and revenue from drivers and historical data. For example a city, state, town or county could determine the expenses to resurface a stretch of road based on its type and length.

This new system-wide module for Questica Budget allows users to configure and generate all three major financial statements, including Income Statements, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow Statements.

Each of these statements include both a current statement and the ability to look forward using your projections. Plus, it includes 11 new out-of-the-box reports. With a new set of accounts for assets, liabilities and equities, this new module helps give a complete picture of your current financials and the road ahead.

Local government customers can produce a professional and award-compliant Budget Book with Questica Budget Book powered by CaseWare.

Questica Budget Book provides a direct integration from Questica Budget to CaseWare’s Working Papers allowing you and your organization to efficiently and cost-effectively create, collaborate, edit, approve and publish your annual Budget Book. Plus, our Budget Book provides the key content requirements to be compliant with GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award.

With Questica Budget you can spend your time analyzing data rather than compiling it. Easily assemble actionable data from anywhere in the system for analysis. Then view your data in a dashboard on screen or export it to a report or Excel. Better yet, share it with your colleagues to improve discussions about new services, funding changes, staffing levels, and more.

• Quick searches
• Intuitive data queries
• Budget forecasting
• Combine budget performance metrics to create new KPIs and ratios
• Out-of-the-box standard reports
• Ad hoc reporting

Integrated into Questica Budget, our dashboard shows all of your critical data and other relevant information together in a visually risk and interactive interface. Completely configurable, your dashboard can be set-up for individual users and/or departments.

Uncover new insights, find trends and make fresh discoveries.

• Easy-to-use drag and drop interface
• Drill-down capabilities
• Contextual dashboards provide cost center and project specific details
• Text, web page, count and scorecard widgets
• Rich interactive configurable charts
• Ability to embed
• Full security on menu and data access by user

We take incredible pride in delivering an exceptional customer experience for each of our customers. Our goal is to get your city, county, agency or state up and running with little to no disruptions. Throughout the process, we listen, adapt and always uncover ways our tools and technologies can improve your organization’s outcomes and enhance our future offerings.

We’re proud to be recognized by Government Technology News on their annual GovTech 100 which showcases the 100 leading companies serving state and local governments in unique, innovative and effective ways.

We believe in customer flexibility when it comes to purchasing. Questica Budget is deployable on your servers or in the cloud. Plus, no mass upgrades. We don’t force you to upgrade until your organization is ready. We’ll work with you to find the best model for your city, county, agency or state.

Questica Budget and OpenBook seamlessly integrate with Balancing Act’s budget simulation tool. Balancing Act is the leader in public sector participatory budget simulations and taxpayer receipt software.

Financials don’t wait for implementation and neither should you. This not only includes pulling data from your general ledger and payroll/human resources systems but also passing budget data back. We’ve developed our own integration tool “QIS” to facilitate and streamline the data integration process.

Our software has been integrated to over 35 different ERP systems, including:

To ensure that users quickly reach the highest level of productivity and proficiency, a dedicated team is assigned to each city, county, agency or state for the duration of the implementation which can typically be completed in four months or less.

Questica provides full installation documentation with every release, as well as implementation assistance, technical support and online help. Plus, we have complete training for administrators and general users through Questica Help, our online learning channel.