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SAP for Public Sector solutions support a variety of accounting processes, including public sector budget formulation.

Designed by former public sector budget officers to meet the unique budgeting requirements of government and education organizations, public sector budget formulation software from SAP provides end-to-end support and is easily adaptable to different budget approaches, processes, and outputs.

Watch the Webcast "Trends in Performance Budgeting for Government – A Virtual Panel" to learn about industry challenges, trends, and opportunities for addressing the pressing requirements of performance budgeting. Government officials share ideas and experiences on best practices for managing budget and performance.

Public sector budget formulation software from SAP addresses your key financial challenges by:

• Providing a single point of entry and review for all budget requests with automation of key budget outputs
• Enabling more flexibility to perform a wide variety of budgeting functions in one application
• Improving data consistency to support timely decisions
• Enhancing visibility with audit trails on all budget requests and revisions
• Giving budget personnel greater control of financial data and processes

Read the "Public Sector Budget Formulation" solution brief to learn more about how scalable and integrated SAP software supports end-to-end public sector budget formulation.

SAP for Public Sector solutions support a variety of accounting and budget formulation processes through:

• Data consistency – Reduce data discrepancies by providing a single point of entry and review.
• Budget formulation – Choose the particular budgeting approach and processes that fit the particular needs of your organization.
• User configuration – Enable your staff to configure unique forms and workflow tools for their work styles to increase productivity.
• Personnel cost forecasting – Examine and plan personnel expenditures at a highly granular level.
• Automated budget book publishing – Prepare budget documents that incorporate budgets, text descriptions, graphics, tables of content, pagination, and formatting.

Public sector accounting and budget formulation is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP ERP. To find out how SAP ERP can help you improve your public sector accounting and budget formulation, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about enterprise resource planning.