Allows you and your organization’s departments to have visibility into the financials, along with the ability to control their own operating budgets. The easy-to-use program ensures the budgeting cycle runs smoothing and securely for every stakeholder 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 bringing the ability for organizations to display capital projects on an interactive map.

The OpenBook Project Explorer now allows organizations to display on a map every infrastructure project, including the budget, actual spend, funding sources, and accompanying documentation, images, video, etc. Organizations 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.

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 or budgets.

Set the standards for your organization 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 public sector organizations 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. ACE’s features are designed specifically for budgeting, which allows users to budget in a way that would be difficult in a traditional Excel spreadsheet system.

This 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. 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.

Now, Questica Budget’s government agency customers can get a professional and award compliance 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’s Report Center 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 in a View or Smart Report or export it to a Print Report or Excel.

Better yet, share it with your colleagues to improve discussions.

• Quick searches
• Intuitive data queries
• Scorecards
• Combine budget performance metrics to create new KPIs and ratios
• Views (ad hoc screen reports)
• Smart Reports allow users to have the best of onscreen reporting using tables and data visualization chart options
• Our reports include data security so users only see what they’re allowed to see.
• All of our out-of-the-box Print Reports also all have a standard look and feel with the ability to add your own columns. As well, our advanced self-serve report templates allows standard headers, footers and logo. In addition, the our templates includes the ability to add new calculated columns and table features.

Integrated into Questica Budget, our dashboard shows all your critical data and other relevant information together in a visually rich 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. In short be insightfully brilliant.

• Easy-to-use drag and drop interface
• Drill-down and drill-through capabilities
• Contextual dashboards provide cost center and project specific details
• Text, web page, count, scorecard, gauge, chart and image widgets
• Rich interactive configurable charts
• Ability to embed external content including connecting directly to Questica OpenBook data visualizations
• Full security on menu and data access by user’s role

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

We’re proud to be recognized by Government Technology News on their annual GovTech 100 index (2020 and 2019 *part of GTY Technology; 2018), 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 organization.

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 (HR) 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 with over 35+ different ERP systems, including:

To ensure that users quickly reach the highest level of productivity and proficiency, a dedicated team of implementers and consultants are assigned to each customer 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.