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Connecting Up Conference 18-20 May 2016 - Melbourne Once again we’ll be supporting Connecting Up at their annual conference, held this year at the Hawthorn Arts Centre in Victoria on 19th – 20th May. The event is an opportunity to learn from the great speakers and to...

Issues affecting the Community Transport sector. Like all major areas of the aged care and disability sectors, Community Transport is facing a number of huge challenges as the Government moves further away from block funding. The steady transition by baby boomers into...

Document Editor, Improved Xero Partner Authentication, Improved Metrics... This month’s software update will include a full-featured document editor for your cover pages, notes, executive summaries and additional pages. We’re confident you’ll be able to add virtually...

Connecting Up's Australian Not-for-Profit Technology Awards The Australian Not-For-Profit Technology Awards will be held as part of the Connecting Up Conference in Melbourne next month. The finalists were announced recently with Calxa honoured amongst a list of fine...

Using Metrics & KPIs in your business can make the difference on how well you know your operation. What are Metrics and what can you do with them?  Firstly, Metrics are non-financial measurements of something in your business. They may be related to finance,...

The recent signing of the bilateral agreement between the Federal and State government will finally see some progress made as the July deadline for the rollout of the NDIS gets closer. This news coming hot on the heels of the decision to retain the ACNC after almost...

In an historic bilateral agreement between the State and Federal Governments last week, both parties signed off on a plan to rollout the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Queensland. Having been held hostage mostly by uncertainty on the scheme, people...

Ending almost two years of speculation, an announcement has finally been made on the future of the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) with Government advising that the commission will be retained. Minister for Social Services Christian Porter,...

Published in the ABN Bookies Bulletin in September 2015. Last year Peter Thorp from the Australian Bookkeepers Network (ABN) gave a great presentation on how the industry has changed over the last 10 years. Peter put up a challenge to the audience asking attending...

Paul Drendel - Practice Faciliator and Enabler As accounting professionals start moving towards value added services for clients, it has quickly become apparent that the process for adopting a product like Calxa across a practice environment involves implementation...

Aged Care reform to start in February 2017 In 2011, the Productivity Commission found the aged care sector suffered similar weaknesses as other sectors such as extensive regulatory burden, delayed access to care and a lack in consumer choice. To improve the delivery...

Cutting Red Tape is called for by the latest ACNC and Deloitte joint report. The ongoing issues surrounding the complex regulatory requirements for charities in Australia were put into some perspective recently with the release of a report by Deloitte Access...

Calxa and MYOB Special Edition March sees the official release of the Unit Costing for Dummies book. We’ve written this book to help the many Not-for-Profits transitioning to a customer-directed care funding model like the NDIS. The guide steps the reader through...