Calxa Blog
The latest updates and news on product and educational thoughts.
Franchises Using Calxa
Calxa provides a rich source of information for both franchisees and the franchisor. It makes it possible to easily consolidate franchises - either globally or for individual regions. By generating KPIs for the entire group, franchisors can provide their...
Foundations of Strong Budget Reports
Here are our thoughts on what is required to prepare reliable budget reports. It's no good presenting reports to your board, manager or your bank that contain errors. This checklist will ensure that you produce good, reliable, board-ready reports. 1. Reconcile...
XS: The Impact of Extra Small Charities
ACNC report on Australia's smallest charities. The big guys get most of the attention but there are 19,000 charities in Australia with income of less $50,000. Despite not being over-run with cash, according to a recent report by the ACNC, many of them “perform highly...
What is a Working Capital Ratio?
Working Capital Ratio is a simple KPI that tells your business health. There’s a variety of numbers to choose from when assessing the health of your business but the Working Capital Ratio is one that’s commonly used. It is relatively simple to prepare. Even without a...
Calxa Portal to Manage your Clients
Handle client subscriptions and workspaces with Calxa Online. If you have been following our Online Diaries, you will know that we’ve done lots of work on Calxa Online but not much of it yet has been visible to you. That’s about to change this month! And, it will...
Benchmarking NFP Boards: How does your NFP Stack Up?
Benchmarking NFP boards is not the easiest task for any not-for-profit organisation. Much is being written regarding the state of NFP (not-for-profits) Board practices across the western economies. It makes for some interesting reading and provides some good...
Responding to a Revenue Crisis
A revenue crisis can happen to any business. It can have its foundations from an economic downturn or increased competition. On the other hand, it can originate from internal mistakes. Whatever the reason, it is a problem that needs a solution. So, you’ve compared...
Spicing Up your Cashflow Settings
Sometimes you need more than just plain vanilla cashflow settings. Plain vanilla cashflow settings work for many situations but sometimes you need a little bit more. Sometimes you need to experiment, try something new. In Calxa, there’s a cashflow type assigned to...
Is there a Questioning Culture in Your Organisation?
If not, you may be missing out. Article first published on OPTIMUM NFP's blog in 2016 Change management is at the forefront of many organisations. As funding changes determine a business-like approach to every day operations, empowering the organisations with strong...
Auto-Budgets to make Getting Started so Easy
Plus tweaks to the NDIA Bulk Claims and new Cashflow Options Our next update at the end of the month will give you more options in fine-tuning your cashflow and an automatic budget with every new organisation – so you can produce reports instantly. Auto-Budget...
Choosing your Forecasting Tool
Preparing Cashflow Forecasting in a spreadsheet is hard work. Or, more precisely, forecasting cashflow well is hard work in a spreadsheet. The traditional method of managing timing of debtors and creditors, for example, is to make simplistic assumptions that...
IMPORTANT: Changes to Calxa Licencing Terms
As our business and products evolve from a desktop to an online environment, we need to make changes to the terms under which we operate. These terms outline what you, as the user of our products, can expect from us. We’ve tried, as much as possible, to...
Budgets: A GPS for your Business
How do budgets guide your business to your planned destination? We often get asked this. A wise man once described accounting as like driving a car using only the rear-view mirror. It gives you a good idea of where you’ve been but very little indication of where you...
Early Adopters to get Performance Improvement
Re-developed back-end infrastructure ensures scalability of Calxa Online Whilst most of us have been spending time in the pool and playing cricket in the back yard, our Dev team has been most diligent. Infrastructure Re-Design Our developers have been busy working on...
Winners really are Grinners
Great to see so many Calxa Friends being awarded for their efforts. It was no surprise to see Calxa customers Delphis Australia taking out some well-deserved accolades at the recent inaugural Central Coast Aged Care and Disability Achievements Awards. Their services...
Flying under the ATO Radar
The last thing any business wants is a knock on the door from the Tax Man. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) sets standard industry benchmark ratios to give them an indicator of businesses that may be doing some creative accounting. So the key thing is to be aware...
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Would definitely recommend the product and the staff behind it.
