Developing a budget is an essential mission for public sector budget professionals. However, when it’s time to produce one, the process can be tedious, often taking months to complete between numerous contributors.
The longer it takes to produce a budget book means less time and resources spent on achieving your organization’s goals and serving your community.
The good news is you can create an effective and engaging budget book in a fraction of the time.
Euna Budget, powered by Questica, has a new tool within its OpenBook module that allows your organization to efficiently create and publish visually stunning online budget books while enhancing transparency, compliance, collaboration, and accessibility.
Enter – Budget Book Studio.
Our newest tool offers robust features that will empower your agency to achieve elevated budgeting.
Budget Book Studio’s enhanced features
Easily Present Budget Data: Capture large sets of budget data and present them in an engaging, accessible format using interactive visuals, such as charts, graphs, images, and video.
Templated Design: Pre-designed templates allow you to modify, add, delete, and design your own pages while ensuring GFOA best practices award criteria is met.
Unparalleled Configurability: Enhanced flexibility enables you to design your budget book the way you want to meet your organization’s unique requirements.
Effortless Integration with Euna Budget: Seamless integration with Euna Budget means that, with the push of a button, you can update your new or existing budget book with statistical, financial and narrative information throughout the entire process.
Improved Security and Workflow: Enhanced security and workflow features allow you to invite and notify collaborators, with the option to limit page access.
The system administrator can also track progress and assign users pages and due dates to maximize collaboration and streamline the process.
Efficient Annotations: Leave notes within the budget book document and notify users with any questions or updates. Notified users will receive a virtual tap on the shoulder and can go into the software to respond.
Limitless Versioning: Maintain unlimited versions and multiple years of budget books for reference or publishing. For example, if you need to publish a mid-year budget update, you can simply keep the original version and work on a new one.
You can also keep multiple years of budget books for reference or publishing. Versions of each budget book can also be posted to your Open Book site to be viewed by the public.
Ensure GFOA Award Criteria: Achieve the GFOA Distinguished Budget Book Award each year with built-in tools and checklists that allow you to search and tag submission criteria to ensure all are met before submitting your book.
Achieve transparency with OpenBook
Euna Budget’s OpenBook is our intuitive and user-friendly data visualization software that helps governments boost transparency and trust by communicating financial and non-financial data in a visually appealing way through descriptive text, informational pop-ups, and charts.
To explore how OpenBook’s Budget Book Studio can elevate your organization’s budget, schedule a demo with our Solutions team today!