I recently had a chance to view a presentation of a Budgeting system that integrates with both Blackbaud Financial Edge and FundWare.  This budgeting module has some significant features that many of our clients have been looking for over the years.  The product is called City Vision and it was written by PowerPlan Corporation.  This product allows the chart of accounts and actual accounting data to be uploaded into the software.  From there, it can be manipulated and run through several different scenario's to ascertain your final budget.  Once the budget is finalized a file is then uploaded into the accounting application.  Once the final budget has been loaded it is available for your normal actual vs. budget reporting.  Examples of some its advanced features include:

- FTE budgeting.  Employee's can be budgeted based on hire or termination dates.  
    -Allocation of benefits to budget line items
    -Budgeting of seasonal employee's
    -Payroll computations such as FICA, etc.
    -Map payroll periods to budget periods
    -Allocate employees to multiple departments or projects
    -Allow mass changes by job classification

Capital Budgets
    -Define supporting details for the requests, including cost details, and sustaining notes
    -Accomodate asset depreciation
    
Also, all of the standard functionality that you would expect in a budgeting system exist such as:

    -Typical operating budget what if scenario's
    -Viewing line item budget details and notes
    -Publishing budget guidelines and assumptions
    -Review multiple years information

Overall, it was a very impressive presentation.  The level of detail that can be utilized is better than anything that we have seen to date.  

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