Cochise County finance officials outline budget, ERP rollout and request outside audit help

Cochise County finance leaders told the Board of Supervisors at a work session Wednesday that they are requesting outside certified public accounting help to prepare the county's annual comprehensive financial report and related reports while the county implements a new enterprise resource planning system.

Monica Miranda, Cochise County finance director, told supervisors the finance department's 2025 salary budget totaled $1,148,003.80 and its operational budget totaled $247,004.51, and that the department is requesting roughly $50,400 in additional operations-and-maintenance funding for fiscal 2026 largely to pay a contracted CPA firm and related consulting services. "The finance department budget is a fairly small sized department in the general fund compared to the others in the county," Miranda said. She said the contracted firm would assist with preparing the annual comprehensive financial report (ACFR), the annual expenditure limitation report (AELR), audit reconciliation review and…