Seamless Integration Cuts Annual Budgeting Time in Half

“Cut my budgeting time by 2 months”

The Wildlife Gallery is the largest tannery for the taxidermy industry in the United States, with 6 locations in Michigan, Texas, and Alaska. Nate Walters has been CFO of The Wildlife Gallery for over 20 years, and has seen his fair share of financial tools, including Excel, QuickBooks, and NetSuite.

The annual process of consolidating spreadsheets and uploading them into their ERP system for reporting had become too time consuming and error prone. Transitioning to Centage shaved months off their budgeting process and eliminated manual data entry errors that had bogged them down in the past.

Seamless NetSuite integration saves valuable time

“My budgeting process is now about a month long, maybe less. So it’s a pretty significant time savings.”

By moving to Centage, The Wildlife Gallery has cut their annual budgeting process in half. They like the ability to quickly and easily build a driver-based budget model using built-in accounting rules and business logic.

Centage also integrates seamlessly with NetSuite, their current ERP solution, automatically and securely bringing in GL data to create the annual budget. This eliminates the potential for data entry errors and duplicated information.

Personnel planning capabilities scale with the team’s growth

“As far as personnel goes, it’s really easy to go in and update changes in pay rates, tax withholdings – it’s all pretty simple.”

Centage's personnel planning capabilities are particularly beneficial for The Wildlife Gallery. When it comes to personnel planning in their annual budget, personnel is an area of the business that requires a lot of detail – from employee’s salary and taxes to benefits.

Annual budget planning & forecasting without data entry errors

“It’s made the process much easier when we go to build the budget year-over-year – it’s been a huge help.”

When The Wildlife Gallery goes into the budget year after year, the model is there and it’s easy to go in and update for the coming year. With just a few clicks, they import their Chart of Accounts and structures into Centage, ensuring that all accounts are accurately reflected.

“It has just cut down so much on the time I spend building our annual budget because everything is automated and the formulas are built, and everything carries over year to year… It’s a phenomenal tool for budgeting.”

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