Financial Best Management Practices
Best Management Practices (BMPs) are simply ways that certain things are done in the best-performing organizations. Financial BMPs will help your organization to achieve long-term financial sustainability. Look through the Overview and Introduction, then the six BMPs below.
Overview &Introduction
Please note that in the following BMPs you can view the pdf documents by clicking on them. However you should download to your computer the Excel (designated XLSX) documents, then open them in Excel.
Asset Inventory & Asset Management
BMP A
BMP: A Basic Asset Inventory [PDF – 458 KB]
Worksheet: A1 Asset Inventory [XLSX – 20 KB]
BMP B
BMP: B Asset Management Plan [PDF – 351 KB]
Worksheet: B1 Asset Management [XLSX – 53 KB]
Five-Year Operating Plan & Long-Term Financial Plan
BMP C
BMP: C Five-year Operating Plan [PDF – 373 KB]
Worksheet: C1 Five-year Operating Plan [XLSX – 33 KB]
Worksheet: C2 Five-year Operating Costs [XLSX – 53 KB]
BMP D
BMP: D Long-term Financial Plan [PDF – 412 KB]
Worksheet: D1 Long-term Financial Plan [XLSX – 37 KB]
Sustainable Rates and Charges & Communications Planning.
BMP E
BMP: E Sustainable Rates & Charges [PDF – 328 KB]
Worksheet: E1 Forecast [XLSX – 26 KB]
Worksheet: E2 Projected Cash Flow Statements [XLSX – 15 KB]
BMP F
BMP: F Communications Planning [PDF – 382 KB]
Worksheet: F1 Stakeholders [XLSX – 20 KB]