Established in 1848, the Catholic Diocese of Auckland operates six entities, more than 50 schools and 70 parishes from the Far North to Thames, with a significant property portfolio. Its finance team was working with several server-based systems that did not integrate, had not been upgraded in 17 years, and had no standard reporting format across the entities.
Amit Prasad of the finance team says it produced around 59 board and committee packs a year, pulling data by manual workarounds and consolidating it in customised Excel spreadsheets, which left little time for forward-looking information.
After moving from MYOB Greentree to MYOB Acumatica, the diocese has one standard reporting format across all its entities, customisable reports and a clear audit trail of changes. It is still early days, but the aim is for stakeholders to take dashboards rather than printed reports into board meetings.
