Case Study: Town of Palm Beach reduces ACFR reporting time with ClearGov

Town of Palm Beach cuts ACFR production from 90 days to 6 weeks with ClearGov

The Town of Palm Beach, Florida, a small seaside town and recipient of multiple GFOA awards, faced significant challenges due to its fragmented and manual financial reporting process. With a very small finance team, the town spent over 90 days each year piecing together spreadsheets and documents, leading to version control chaos and errors. This left no bandwidth for strategic work, such as creating a Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR), a goal they had for over two decades. To address this, they turned to ClearGov's ACFR Financial Reporting solution.

By implementing ClearGov's solution, the town integrated all financial data into a single platform, automating updates and enabling a collaborative workflow. This allowed the Town of Palm Beach to drastically reduce its ACFR preparation time from 90 days to just 6 weeks. The time savings enabled them to create a PAFR for the first time, which subsequently helped them win the prestigious GFOA Triple Crown, an honor achieved by fewer than 1% of U.S. governments. ClearGov also helped modernize the town's operations, improving talent acquisition and overall efficiency.

Town of Palm Beach, Florida