Beal Budgeting’s founder has unparalleled experience designing and implementing the leading public sector budgeting solutions. Our team can help you manage your project, re-engineer your budgeting processes, and optimize the functionality in your selected budgeting and reporting software tools. Beal Budgeting’s deep functional and technical expertise can help you ensure your project is successful and provides the desired return on investment.
Beal Budgeting’s public sector budgeting solution expertise includes:
• SAP Public Budget Formulation (PBF) Solution ™ – Mr. Beal is the “Father of PBF,” having served as the SAP Vice President in charge of designing and taking the solution to market, as well as overseeing the initial PBF implementation projects.
• CGI’s AMS Advantage® Performance Budgeting (PB) Solution – Mr. Beal contributed to the solution design and implemented the CGI Performance Budgeting Solution.
• CGI’s BRASS® Budgeting Solution – Mr. Beal led several successful BRASS implementations and designed BRASS functionality to support government and education clients.
• SAP Business Planning and Simulation (BPS) ™ – Mr. Beal implemented BPS for government clients.
• Oracle Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting™
• FiniteMatters PatternStream ™ – Mr. Beal has had dozens of successful installations of this industry-leading public sector budget book publishing tool.
Beal Budgeting’s founder has over 15 years of experience with the leading public sector budgeting/planning solutions and working with the leading systems integrators. This unique combination of experience as both a budget practitioner and implementation consultant provides a unique perspective to guide your organization through your procurement and implementation. We provide highly informed and independent oversight and quality assurance for your budgeting system implementation project. There is no substitute for experience. Beal Budgeting can be your insurance policy through:
• Pre-procurement functional and technical needs assessments
• Procurement preparation (e.g. RFI, RFP development)
• Vendor evaluation and selection
• Project management
• Production support and system optimization
Though Beal Budgeting regularly helps government and education organizations leverage budgeting and reporting software to solve business issues, our passion lies in improving the underlying budgeting processes. We have deep experience implementing strategic budget, financial, and related management reforms including:
• Program, or service-based budgeting
• Activity-based costing
• Budget processes to support managed competition
• School-based budgeting (Primarily K-12 Education)
• Responsibility-centered budgeting (Primarily Higher Education)
• Develop budget allocations
• Performance-based budgeting and budgeting for results
• Integrated operating, capital and grants (Restricted Funds) budgeting
• Improved personnel cost budgeting
• Automated budget book and capital improvement plan (CIP) publishing
Beal Budgeting has the experience and independence to help optimize your budgeting processes and systems to support better decision making. We can help you:
· Assess the capabilities and gaps of your current budgeting tools and processes.
· Determine whether you can better utilize your current budgeting processes and systems.
· Determine if new budgeting processes and/or technologies would provide substantial return on investment (ROI).
· Develop a business case for budget process re-engineering and/or budgeting system procurement and implementation.
· Provide performance benchmarks for your current budgeting processes to facilitate future state comparison and to measure return on investment for your budget process re-engineering and/or budgeting system replacement project.
Beal Budgeting principals have engaged in more than 150 public sector budgeting software and consulting services procurement processes in government at all levels, K-12 education, and higher education. No firm in the industry has more experience with the selection and procurement processes for public sector enterprise budgeting software and consulting services. Because our experience comes from both selection and bidding vendor perspectives and because of our hands on experience with the leading public sector budgeting applications, we are able to delve deeper than other firms to identify true product and consultant differentiators which will impact your project success. Our deep expertise includes helping government and education organizations with:
•Functional and technical requirements definition and assessment
•Best practices for procuring budgeting systems and consulting services
•Request for Proposals (RFP) and Request for Information (RFI) development
•Demonstration scripting, evaluation structure, and scoring
•Vendor qualification and reference checking
•Contracting best practices
•Project transition
•Optional implementation support and/or independent project validation and verification (IV&V)
Unlike other firms, we don’t use generic, cross-functional business analysts and recycled checklists and matrices. Our resources all have deep expertise in public sector budgeting and public sector budgeting systems, which we leverage to support a procurement process that assures your organization of the lowest risk and highest return on investment (ROI) project possible.
Beal Budgeting’s passion for helping government and education organizations optimize the allocation of their scarce resources is inherently intertwined with the concept of budgeting for results and performance-based budgeting.
Beal Budgeting founder’s performance-based budgeting experience dates back to his days serving as Assistant Administrator for Finance at the City of Indianapolis under Mayor Steve Goldsmith, and includes advising nationally recognized leaders in performance-based budgeting and budget transparency such as Franklin County, Ohio (Columbus), the State of Iowa, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Additionally, Mr. Beal helped design the two leading public sector-focused performance-based budgeting software packages in the market.
With our extensive expertise in performance budgeting, Beal Budgeting can help your public organization:
• Establish program/service-based budgeting framework and manage conversion process
• Link budgeting and financial management to strategic plans, executive goals and objectives, and constituent services
• Improve public transparency and accountability
• Measure organizational performance
• Improve budgetary insight for decision-makers
• Provide context to budget decisions…the numbers and what’s behind the numbers
• Comply with external (e.g. ARRA, DOT, DOE, OMB) reporting requirements
• Comply with executive or legislative performance-budgeting mandates
