Description

Improve Your Budget Process

with  ZeBud
How we can help:

• Ease data collection issues with department heads
• Collect data and notes with easy to use database forms
• Tabulate data and notes without using spreadsheets
• Produce a "Zero-Based" budget of specific items
• Multi-User Client-Server software 
• Common desktop Microsoft Access database files
• Password protect data input by department
• Manage the Process !

See the Video clips at the bottom of the page after reading Description and Purpose.

ZeBud Product Description & Purpose

ZeBud is a multi-user program that is a tool to develop the budget for an organization with participation from department heads and managers with appropriate data and process controls reserved for the Budget Manager. ZeBud allows the organization to collect, organize, document, tabulate and report on the details of budget requests so the budget requests can be reviewed, negotiated, and managed for approval.

Instead of using spreadsheets to accumulate budget input from department heads and managers, ZeBud uses a database complete with generous space for notes to document each budget item, producing a "zero-based" budget. Our approach for your users is to "fill in the blanks," not re-invent the budget with each cycle. Instant tabulation of input and elimination of error-prone spreadsheet combination or macros simplifies the budget process and makes it more efficient.

ZeBud is also a software tool that provides monthly measurement of the budget status with a series of reports measuring the actual financial results against the budget as well as prior actual results. If your current general ledger software or other systems provide acceptable budget variance reports, you can of course elect to not use this feature of the program. The monthly actual financial data is imported into ZeBud from an Excel spreadsheet in a simple trial-balance format. If your systems can export simple trial balance data to an Excel spreadsheet, then the actual financial data can be imported into ZeBud by menu option.

ZeBud is an Access program. The data files are standard Access files and can be linked with any custom application you may wish to develop or currently use. Reports from ZeBud can be exported to a rich text file, which you may elect to use for portions of a finished budget document. You may find many of the reports acceptable for direct inclusion into your finished budget document. This type of program with open, commonly used file structures assure your organization of maximum future flexibility without being committed to a proprietary system. The programs are all by-products of the Microsoft Office family of familiar office suite products. No particular knowledge of Access is required to operate ZeBud. It is completely menu driven. It comes with the runtime version of the program so that your users are not required to have the Access program on their desktop. ZeBud requires either Windows XP or Windows 2000. Data files reside safely on your server, not on somebody else’s server, on the web. You control the data.

We can't solve all your budget problems, but we can help you manage the details.

showme-02  Budget Development (Video Demo Clip)

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