What a council needs from finance reporting
A local council reports finance across a sprawl of facilities, programs and entities. Aquatic centres, sports facilities, community programs and separate legal entities each generate transactions, and management needs a single group picture rather than a stack of separate accounts. Internal transfers between those entities also have to be removed before the group result makes sense.
Run that consolidation in a spreadsheet at period end and it is slow and error-prone. Each entity is exported, mapped to a common structure and combined by hand, intercompany transactions are netted off manually, and the group result is always weeks behind reality. Cohiva Crunch does the consolidation continuously instead.
What Crunch does for councils
Crunch is finance software built for groups of entities. For a council that means:
- Multi-entity consolidation across facilities, programs and legal entities.
- A shared chart of accounts so every entity maps to one consistent structure.
- Intercompany eliminations that remove internal transfers from the group result.
- Real-time profit and loss so management sees results as transactions land.
Because consolidation runs continuously on a shared chart of accounts, a council gets a current group view rather than a quarterly spreadsheet exercise.
A live group picture, not a period-end scramble
The value of Crunch for a council is timing as much as accuracy. With eliminations handled inside the system and a shared chart of accounts across entities, the group profit and loss is available in real time. Finance teams report from a live picture rather than waiting for each facility and entity to close and be combined by hand.
Where this sits in your operation
Crunch handles the finance and consolidation side of a council. Pair it with asset and maintenance management from Control, which posts fixed-asset depreciation into the ledger, and a council runs finance and assets on one data layer.
The solutions for councils and recreation page shows the wider bundle, and you can explore Crunch for the product detail.
Who it is for
Crunch suits local councils that report finance across many facilities, programs and entities, and that want multi-entity consolidation, intercompany eliminations and a real-time profit and loss rather than a period-end spreadsheet.