Over the last year, I have picked up the task of tracking my departments budget. The process that was handed over involved tracking on an excel spreadsheet, a list of transactions, and a manually updated list of totals. I've upgraded this to automatically add totals from the list of POs raised, and to also track forecast, and generally it does everything that it has to do, but it dosen't feel 'there', although I can't actually say why.
With the new financial year about to start, it seems like a good time to see if there are any better solutions out there, so I am looking for suggestions.
I don't have budget (Is that ironic?) to purchase new software, and to be honest the budget isn't big enough to warrent it anyway - the spreadsheet does work, its just a bit unweildy. As such, I can either use anything from the MS office suite (Including project) or possibly open source software (If I can get it approved). Any suggestions? What to other OCUKer's use to track thier budgets?
To answer the offical OCUK stupid question "Why don't you just stick with it/I wouldn't bother changing, why are you/etc etc" - I am looking to improve an existing process. If it turns out that an excel spreadsheet is the best option I have, then I will stick with it, but it not acceptable to me to simply say, this is 'good enough' and leave it at that without trying to improve it.
With the new financial year about to start, it seems like a good time to see if there are any better solutions out there, so I am looking for suggestions.
I don't have budget (Is that ironic?) to purchase new software, and to be honest the budget isn't big enough to warrent it anyway - the spreadsheet does work, its just a bit unweildy. As such, I can either use anything from the MS office suite (Including project) or possibly open source software (If I can get it approved). Any suggestions? What to other OCUKer's use to track thier budgets?
To answer the offical OCUK stupid question "Why don't you just stick with it/I wouldn't bother changing, why are you/etc etc" - I am looking to improve an existing process. If it turns out that an excel spreadsheet is the best option I have, then I will stick with it, but it not acceptable to me to simply say, this is 'good enough' and leave it at that without trying to improve it.