Town of Chapel Hill Fiscal Budgets and Actuals 2016-2019

Fiscal Years 2016 through 2019 contain Year-to-Date Budget and Actuals data from the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The data originates from the Town's Enterprise Resource Planning software and supports legally required reports like the Adopted Budget and Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. Fiscal years run from July 1 to June 30.

Use Cases

• Analyze variance between Budget and Actuals figures for revenue and expense categories over four fiscal years.
• Model fiscal year-end outcomes using Year-to-Date data to forecast final audit adjustments for specific expenditure lines.
• Track reclassification patterns of expenditures between expense categories throughout a fiscal cycle.

Strengths

• Covers four complete fiscal years (2016-2019) of municipal financial data.
• Data is maintained to produce official financial reports, including the Adopted Budget and CAFR.
• Includes multiple file formats (CSV, XLS, GEOJSON) for different analytical needs.

Limitations

• Row and column counts are unknown, limiting assessment of dataset scale and granularity.
• Data is subject to change until the final audit is complete, typically by October of the following fiscal year.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single municipality (Town of Chapel Hill).

Provenance

Source

Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Collection Method

Extracted from the Town's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.

Time Range

Fiscal Years 2016 through 2019 (July 1 to June 30 each year).

Freshness

Last updated on 2025-01-31, but the underlying data covers fiscal years ending in 2019.

Geography

Town of Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina, USA.