Sample Finance Postings

The Post the Finances Software

The Post the Finances software program will need to take interactive accounting information and convert it to static information in the form of a simple checkbook register, showing date, check number, payee, payment or deposit, and ongoing balance.

The program must allow the operator to upload this information with a couple of key strokes to any and all governmental Web sites. The purpose of the software program is to show clearly every governmental penny received and every penny spent. The program would need to create a "money trail" for citizens to navigate their way through governmental Web sites and see all the daily revenues and expenditures of the city, county, state, and federal government.

The program would also need to archive revenues and expenditures for previous days, in such a way that each day's finances could be easily accessed, like an online newspaper archive.

The program needs to be simple and graphically pleasing, so any nonspecialist computer user can access the fiscal data quickly. It would need to have the capability of producing graphs, and reports such as Budget vs. Actual, By Vendor, Profit/Loss, and so forth.

It should have a variety of search functions that would be able to retrieve information on specific items. In summary, the program should be able to furnish all the elements that make up a state-of-the-art Web site: easy to read, easy to understand display; graphics; search function, archive, any other feature the city deems necessary.

Disclaimer: Not an actual California government web page. Examples are for illustrative purposes only.

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