With August already behind us, many of you know the 2019 budget season is already upon us. Managers have already begun to pull various financial reports in order to start compiling their budgets to present to their Boards of Directors. As anyone in the industry will tell you, the budget process is a straightforward one, but it can be one of the most time-consuming projects of the year. As industry professionals, our boards rely on our expertise and experience to make sense of several pages of financial data. Being the perfectionists that we all are, we strive to compose our budgets with precise accuracy and go the extra mile to try to predict the unforeseen variables that come up every year. Oh and did I mention, this is all being done while still managing the day-to-day tasks and projects in our communities?     Read the article………………