Budgets are an important part of the financial planning and resource allocation efforts in any industry. Approval of budgets involves stringent reviews for assessing alignment with organizational goals and ensuring that the budget aligns with financial regulations. Manual processing further complicates the budget approval process by involving extensive paperwork and multiple review levels. Conventional approval workflows are flawed and incapable of scaling to increasing scope of operations. Implementing automated budget approval workflows takes over the heavy lifting in the energy and utilities sector. Automation not only speeds up the review and approval process, but also ensures that budgets are aligned with organizational goals. Stakeholders get real-time updates on the status of budgets in Cflow.