Modern Government is being held increasingly accountable for the way in which it manages and reports its finances. As constituents demand fair value for their taxes, it is imperative that all areas of Government be able to generate accurate financial reports in a timely manner.

SAS Financial Management Solutions can help bring together financial information from a variety of systems across the organisation, yielding timely, accurate and comprehensive results. Our solution integrates data management and financial intelligence with online analytical processing, allowing you to view your organisation from any perspective: department, service, geographic site or other category.

With SAS, public sector budget holders can fully integrate financial management into their strategic planning, budgeting and mission evaluation processes, producing a clear statement of financial management goals and objectives. As part of a total approach to performance management, SAS gives organisations the power to monitor, analyse and report on financial information ... and use the information to drive strategic decisions and manage financial risk.

At SAS, we understand the critical role financial management plays in helping each department achieve its mission and strategic planning goals. Our solutions have been helping the public sector provide faster, more efficient service to citizens for over 25 years.

Specifically, SAS can help in the following areas:

Enhanced Business Planning

• Planning and Budgeting is completely integrated - eliminating redundant data, providing a consistent experience for all users throughout the organisation.
• Management planning allows automated notification regarding process performance, keeping tabs on important issues such as data integrity.
• Reduce cycles for budgeting and planning by streamlining the process for creating, tracking and validating organisational plans.

Choose between traditional cost allocations or more sophisticated activity based costing methods. As a result of the integration of ABC Technologies benefits include:

• Automate labour-intensive processes.
• "What if" scenario modelling.
• Perform organisational modelling to measure cost and performance by bureau, program, etc.

• Optimise efficiency and ease of use by taking advantage of the SAS Intelligence Architecture -- the open, end-to-end core of all SAS analytic applications
• Produce timely and accurate financial statements and reports.
• Perform financial analysis and forecasting.
• Consolidate financial data from diverse sources systematically to avoid manual, error-prone transcription.