Water boards, fire districts, villages, and reserve-fund HOAs finally get software that understands funds. Kantivo Government Edition delivers self-balancing fund ledgers, five-category GASB 54 fund balance reporting, combined all-funds statements, and board-ready budget comparisons — for less than most districts spend on a single audit adjustment.
Start Your Free TrialAsk a special-district treasurer what they use for accounting and the answer is usually QuickBooks — with "classes" impersonating funds, a spreadsheet reconstructing fund balance every quarter, and an auditor who reformats it all annually. Purpose-built municipal systems exist, but their pricing assumes a city: entry quotes near $5,000 a year and mainstream suites well into five figures before implementation. Kantivo Government Edition was built for the thousands of small public entities in between — genuine GASB fund accounting inside a modern desktop app a one-person finance office can actually run.
A volunteer fire district with one General Fund and a ~$320K budget. The clerk records the county's property-tax settlements as they arrive, posts monthly operations costs against the Fire & Emergency Operations expenditure account, and books the state readiness grant to Intergovernmental Revenue. At every board meeting the Budget vs Actual report shows each line of the adopted budget with a green/yellow/red flag — the commissioners see at a glance that operations spending sits at 87% with two months left. At audit time, the GASB-titled statements and the fund balance classification schedule come straight out of Kantivo.
Not a tag, not a class — each fund keeps its own chart of accounts, its own bank reconciliation, and balances independently. Add unlimited funds across all nine GASB types.
Create a Special Revenue fund and get Fund Balance categories plus Expenditures by function. Create an Enterprise fund and get Net Position accounts plus operating Expenses with depreciation. Kantivo picks the correct template from the fund type.
Nonspendable, Restricted, Committed, Assigned, Unassigned — the five-way fund balance split is seeded into every governmental fund and rolls up into a dedicated disclosure report.
The picker labels every fund with its GASB type and offers a direct jump to the combined, government-wide view. No logging out, no separate files to open.
Load the budget your board passed, then compare it to reality any day of the year. Traffic-light flags surface overruns and lagging revenue before they become audit findings. Exports to CSV for the packet.
Bank feeds with AI categorization, vendor bills, receivables, reconciliation, audit log, user roles — Government Edition layers on top of everything Kantivo already does.
Government financial statements have specific names, sections, and orderings. Producing them correctly year-round is the difference between a routine audit and an expensive one.
Column-per-fund presentation with an entity-wide total — assets, liabilities, and fund balance (or net position) for the whole government on one page.
Per-fund operating statement in the GASB format: revenue sources, functional expenditures, excess/deficiency, beginning-to-ending balance reconciliation.
The government-wide rollup of the operating statement. Board members see every fund's period activity side by side with the total column.
The GASB 54 matrix that supports your audit's fund balance footnote — five constraint categories against every fund.
Line-by-line comparison of adopted budget to actuals with variance dollars, percentages, and status flags, per fund and period.
The complete Government Edition: unlimited self-balancing funds, GASB 54 reporting, the full government statement suite, Budget vs Actual, and every Kantivo Professional feature underneath.
For context: dedicated government accounting vendors typically quote $3,000–$5,000/year at the entry level and $10,000–$60,000 for mid-market suites, frequently with five-figure implementation projects on top. Kantivo prices for the small districts those vendors don't return calls from.
A higher tier covering the complete GASB-34 audit workflow is in active development:
The interactive demo ships with four pre-built public-sector organizations — an HOA with an operating/reserve pair, a single-fund fire district, a water district mixing governmental and enterprise funds, and a three-fund small town — each loaded with realistic activity so you can explore the fund switcher, statement suite, and budget comparisons immediately.
Thirty days free, full Government Edition included. Bring your real numbers.