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Municipal Budget monitoring & forecasting

See where your budget is actually headed

One place to track your budget, forecast your year-end, and give every stakeholder the picture they need.

Works with your existing accounting software.
No replacement required.

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Track actuals against budget and forecast where every line item lands

Turn dense tables into visual stories your board can easily follow

Flag what’s drifting. Forecast using real seasonal patterns, not divide-by-12

One place for your 

HOW IT WORKS

Your budget at a glance.
Your year-end in focus.

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Forecasts built from your historical seasonal patterns

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Alerts when a line-item is off-track

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Transaction level data ready for analysis

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Reports ready for any audience

WHAT CHANGES WITH HORIZON

From manual tracking to a

shared financial picture
Current Reality
What Horizon Does
Why it Matters
Forecasting lives in someone’s head. Reporting divides by 12.
Real seasonal patterns. A running year-end projection for every line item.
Problems surface when there’s still time to act.
Same data. Rebuilt three ways for three audiences.
One source. The right view for council, department heads, and internal review.
One update. Every audience informed.
Flat budgets trigger false alarms. Real variances get missed.
Seasonal models and custom thresholds separate signal from noise.
Confidence that what’s flagged actually needs attention.
Knowledge scatters when people leave
Budget history, patterns, and forecasts stay in the system.
The organization stays steady through transitions.

WHO'S IT FOR

For municipal leaders

Finance Directors

THE REALITY

You move data between systems, reformat reports, and rebuild the same numbers for different audiences. Forecasting is in your head.

WHAT CHANGES

Less time formatting. More time on analysis, stewardship, and the decisions that require your judgment.

Elected Officials

THE REALITY

Budget reports arrive as dense tables. The data is noisy, the meaning requires a walkthrough, and the basis for decisions stays clouded.

WHAT CHANGES

Visual reporting you can easily interpret. Financial oversight becomes a conversation. Every decision grounded in a picture you fully understand.

Department Heads

THE REALITY

Budget tracking is manual or fragmented. You see where you’ve been, not where you’re headed.

WHAT CHANGES

Actuals, forecasts, and historical context in one place. Next year’s budget built on a full picture of how this year played out.

THE COMMON THREAD Shared Visibility
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HOW WE WORK

Built around real
governance workflows

We know what month-end close actually looks like, how board packets get assembled, and why divide-by-12 falls short. Horizon fits into how your team already works. The accounting software stays, the spreadsheet layer doesn’t have to.

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PROVEN EXPERIENCE

From those who brought you Waterworth

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Trusted by 400+ municipalities
across the US and Canada

Years of utility financial planning conversations taught us the same thing: the gap between adopting a budget and knowing where you’ll land at year-end is where most communities lose visibility.

Great decisions happen when staff and governing bodies share the same clear financial picture. Horizon was built to close that gap.

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We can walk through Horizon and show you how it works for a community like yours. Clear next steps. No pressure.

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