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.
Cities, counties, and school districts that produce audited GASB-34 statements every year get a dedicated tier with the complete budgetary-control toolchain layered on top of Government Pro:
One click reserves a purchase order's full amount against the budget — committed fund balance, visible on the GASB 54 report, released proportionally as deliveries arrive. Year-end open encumbrances carry forward or lapse per your board's policy.
Post adoption entries (Estimated Revenues / Appropriations against Budgetary Fund Balance) into a segregated budgetary journal that can never bleed into your actual statements. Amendments carry reasons, dates, and adjusting entries.
Original, amended, and revised budget beside encumbered, expended, and available per account — the pre-purchase check every finance office runs, with over-committed lines flagged in red.
Statement of Net Position and the GASB-34 Statement of Activities across Governmental and Business-type columns, plus the reconciliation schedule that bridges fund statements to the government-wide view.
Modified accrual for governmental funds (configurable measurable-and-available window), full accrual for enterprise funds — assigned automatically from the fund type.
Every outstanding reservation with its liquidated and open amounts, so committed money is always accounted for when the auditors arrive.
Unlimited self-balancing funds, GASB 54 reporting, the fund statement suite, Budget vs Actual, and every Kantivo Professional feature underneath.
Adds the GASB-34 audit stack: encumbrances, journalized budgets with amendments, the Appropriations Ledger, per-fund accrual bases, and entity-wide statements.
Built for GASB audit practices: everything in Enterprise, whitelabel client portal, remote access to unlimited government clients, firm-created installs.
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. Even the Enterprise tier undercuts most vendors' cheapest package.
The interactive demo ships with six 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, a three-fund small town, and two Enterprise showcases: the City of Riverdale (six funds, a posted budget with live encumbrances against it, entity-wide statements) and Maplewood Unified School District (state aid, federal Title I money, a bond-funded building fund, and a school bus on order with its budget reserved). Explore everything with realistic activity before installing.
Thirty days free, full Government Edition included. Bring your real numbers.