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The latest updates and news on product and educational thoughts.
Account Tree Love, and Online Metrics
The next Calxa software release is not far away. As usual there will be some improvements and enhancements. The cherry on this release cake is the new Metrics. This new feature signals, ever so gently, the coming of our full KPI & Formula calculator. Next...
Xero Gets a Navigation Make-Over
This month Xero released a major update to their navigation experience. Simplifying how users get around the accounting app is at the core of this navigation make-over. Making Xero easier to use and more efficient for daily tasks is the desired outcome. Beautiful...
Starting a Conversation Part 2: The ‘Sticky’ Effect
Not all of your customers may be worth keeping but for most bookkeepers and accountants, it’s important that you can keep most of them for as long as possible. Differentiate your Bookkeeping Business and derive business insights for your clients. How do you do that in...
Starting a Conversation Part 1: Awakening their Interest
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have seen plenty of advice from the ‘thought leaders’ in the accounting industry that the future is in advisory services, not in compliance. That sounds good, exciting even but it’s also daunting for many accountants and...
Streamlining Grant Acquittals and Reporting
So, how do you streamline grant acquittals? Firstly, let us clarify the term 'Grant Acquittal'. Essentially, the term “Grant Acquittals” seems to be uniquely Australian. Our friends in the UK and New Zealand are often puzzled by it. Don’t be! It’s simply reporting...
Good Governance Leads to Successful Boards
We always harp on about how important good governance is and how successful boards are the key to the sustainability of organisations. Our team here at Calxa is always on the lookout for better ways to do business. This includes new tools, improved systems and new...
Graphic / Video / Content Creator
We are looking for top gun marketers! We are going global and are building an inhouse digital team with PPC, SEO, CRO skills that are backed up by writers, videographers, content creators and graphically skilled talent. Real expertise You’re an expert in design...
Automating the 3-Way Forecast: The Ultimate Guide
Automating the 3-Way Forecast, also referred to as 3 Statement Model, has always been a strong point of Calxa. It's an easy way to prepare a 3-Way Forecast. This key set of reports is the foundation for most financial analysis of a business including scenario planning...
End of Life for MYOB Premier 19 – What this means for your Calxa
MYOB have made public announcements ending support for their Premier 19 range of products from September 2019, and the associated ODBC Driver (the tool we use to connect Calxa to Premier 19) from September 2018. What does this mean for you? The end of MYOB ODBC...
5 Ways of Budgeting Made Easy
5 Ways of budgeting made easy walks you through the steps of doing your budgets in the Calxa app. Essentially, Calxa is an alternative to preparing budgets in a spreadsheet. If you are looking for ways to make your business budgeting easy, read on.
Automate Board Reporting
Board reporting is a necessary task but often one that takes considerable time. It doesn’t have to be that way and many of our customers have reduced that from 4 days to a few hours. So, how can you simplify and automate board reporting? In this post, we want to delve...
Transform with Powerful Report Designer
While a choice from 180+ report and chart templates is enough for many of our customers, there’s always someone who wants that little bit more and needs to customise reports. Transforming your final output with the powerful report designer will do just that. ...
What To Include In Your End of Year Reporting
It is time to contemplate what to include in your end of year reporting. It is a good time to both look to the future and review the past through your financial reports. Some reports will give you the information that you need to see how well your business has done....
Current Ratios in the Not-for-Profit Sector
The current ratio, or working capital ratio as it’s often known, is commonly used as an indicator of the viability of an organisation, whether it’s a business or a Not-for-Profit. It compares your current assets like bank deposits, debtors and trading stock to your...
Board Members keeping their Not-for-Profit afloat
Keeping your not-for-profit afloat is no easy task. Trading solvent weighs heavily on some boards, especially those who take board member responsibilities seriously. This means a board member needs to not only have the skill to quickly grasp where the organisation is...
The Invisible Accountant wins on Innovation
Our automated small business product, The Invisible Accountant, was honoured in the Queensland iAwards in Brisbane last week – and will be competing in the National iAwards in Melbourne at the end of August. Our CEO, Mick Devine, was thrilled to get the award and...
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