BizBooks Pro Government Edition gives special districts, small towns, and fund-style HOAs real fund accounting — self-balancing funds, GASB 54 fund balance classifications, fund-level statements, and the Budget vs Actual report your board meeting runs on. Starting at $799/year instead of the five-figure quotes government software vendors send.
Try Free for 30 DaysMost special districts and small towns today run QuickBooks with classes standing in for funds — and every audit season, someone rebuilds fund balance schedules in Excel because the software doesn't know what a fund is. The alternative has been government ERP suites that start around $5,000/year and climb past $60,000 with implementation fees. Government Edition closes that gap: genuine GASB fund accounting, in the same modern desktop app your bookkeeper already finds easy to use.
A rural water district runs two funds: a property-tax-funded General Fund for administration and a user-fee-funded Water Enterprise Fund for operations. In BizBooks Pro, each fund keeps its own self-balancing books — the General Fund reports Fund Balance and Expenditures, while the Enterprise Fund reports Net Position and Expenses with depreciation, exactly as GASB requires. At the board meeting, the treasurer opens Balance Sheet by Fund and both funds appear side by side with a district-wide total. When the auditor asks how fund balance splits across GASB 54 categories, that's one report, not a weekend in Excel.
Each fund is its own complete ledger — own chart of accounts, own bank reconciliation, own trial balance. Create as many funds as your government uses: General, Special Revenue, Capital Projects, Debt Service, Enterprise, and more.
Governmental funds seed with Fund Balance accounts and Expenditures by function (Public Safety, Highways & Streets…). Proprietary funds seed with Net Position accounts and operating Expenses including depreciation. The right template, automatically.
Fund balance presents in the five required classes — Nonspendable, Restricted, Committed, Assigned, Unassigned — with a dedicated disclosure report your auditor will ask for by name.
The company picker becomes a fund switcher: every fund badged with its GASB type, plus a one-click "View Combined" jump to government-wide reports. Work in one fund's books, then see the whole government.
Enter the adopted budget per account, then run Budget vs Actual any time: red when an expenditure line overruns, yellow as it approaches, red when revenue collections fall behind. CSV export for board packets.
Bank feeds and AI categorization, invoicing and bills, bank reconciliation, audit trail, role-based access, multi-user options — the full BizBooks Pro platform underneath the government layer.
GASB formatting isn't cosmetic — titles, sections, and classifications signal to an auditor that the books were kept correctly all year.
All funds side by side, one column each plus a total column. Governmental funds show Fund Balance; proprietary funds show Net Position. The one-page view of your government's whole position.
The GASB replacement for the Income Statement: revenues by source, expenditures by function, excess/deficiency, and the beginning-to-ending fund balance walk.
The revenues-and-expenditures statement rolled across every fund with a government-wide total column. What the board sees at the monthly meeting.
The GASB 54 matrix — five classifications down the side, funds across the top. Supports the fund balance note disclosure in your annual audit.
Budgeted, actual, variance, and variance percent per account with traffic-light status flags, for any fund and any date range.
Full GASB fund accounting for small governments: unlimited self-balancing funds, GASB 54 fund balance classifications, the complete government report suite, and Budget vs Actual — plus everything in BizBooks Pro Professional.
Compare that with what small-government software vendors quote: entry-level government packages commonly start at $3,000–$5,000/year and mid-market suites run $10,000–$60,000 plus implementation fees. Government Pro is priced for the districts and towns those vendors ignore.
For governments that need the full GASB-34 audit stack, the Government Enterprise tier is in active development:
The online demo includes four ready-made government sandboxes — a two-fund HOA, a volunteer fire district, a water district with a governmental + enterprise fund mix, and a small town running three funds — so you can click through fund switching, the report suite, and Budget vs Actual with realistic numbers before installing anything.
Start a free 30-day trial — the full Government Edition feature set is included.