Case Study: City of Missoula accelerates financial reporting with Workiva

City of Missoula saves months on financial reporting with Workiva

The City of Missoula faced significant challenges in its financial reporting processes, which were hampered by disconnected data sources. Manually copying and pasting tens of thousands of lines of data from its ERP system was a time-consuming and error-prone process that created version control issues and required laborious hand-checking against the general ledger. To modernize its reporting, the city chose the Workiva platform for its ability to connect to any data source and its strong data integrity.

By implementing Workiva's financial reporting solution, the city automated its data pulls and connected information directly into reports. This eliminated manual processes, drastically reduced the risk of errors, and saved months of time in creating budgets and management reports. Workiva enabled the team to populate dashboards for greater transparency and even allowed the first budget import into the ERP system to happen three months earlier than the previous year, significantly increasing trust in their reporting.

City of Missoula