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As being a nationally and internationally renowned museum: MONA is has a conference and events centre, winery, brewery, restaurant, hotel, café, bars, retail outlet and a wholesale and retail wine operation. On top of these many permanent businesses operating in the complex, MONA hosts major festivals and events. They now employ about 170 fulltime equivalent staff, supplemented by additional casual labour during the tourist seasons.

A highly ambitious project like MONA required a highly flexible financial system capable of handling numerous transactions and likely business expansion, as well as on-the-spot data analysis.

Hundreds of thousands of transactions are handled easily, costs are tightly controlled, and despite rapid expansion, the finance department has required only one extra employee. “Using data from IQ* and our two POS systems, I can also look at the performance of an individual business unit on a weekly basis, and determine whether that unit is delivering against budgeted targets and margins,” says Patrick.

An on-the-spot query concerning specific costs in any part of the MONA operation can be dealt with straight away because of the live data provided by MYOB Greentree’s Workflow desktop. The seasonal tourism demands are monitored and adjusted to ensure that staffing levels are appropriate for the level of business.