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The latest updates and news on product and educational thoughts.
Metrics & KPIs for Business
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,...
North QLD NDIS Group … Full Steam Ahead
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...
Spruiking Automation
Learn the Calxa Way of Doing Things There is so much ground to cover with the rollout of the NDIS pending for many NFPs and new Charity Reporting Standards recently introduced in New Zealand. Sharing knowledge and our learnings is important to the Calxa team. Not only...
Governments Agree on QLD
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...
ACNC … Here to Stay
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,...
Text in Reports & QuickBooks Just Around the Corner
We’ve had great feedback on the ability to add documents to Report Bundles and next week adding annotations to reports will be the next step in that evolution. You’ll be able to insert documents into the footer of the preceding report or the header of the following...
Bookkeepers Thriving in a Changing Environment
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...
Goodbye Paul, Hello Paul
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 to follow NDIS Model
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...
ACNC and Deloitte Report Released
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...
Launching Unit Costing for Dummies
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...
Macca’s NDIS Moment
How change can be for the better. Take around 750 separate franchise cost centres, develop an innovative business plan that completely contradicts 50 years of operations, organise and supply plant and infrastructure  AND train and motivate over 50 000 staff – all in...
MYOB Incite: The Inside Story
The latest MYOB Incite roadshow sported the theme Today Defines Tomorrow. After almost three weeks of traversing Australia and New Zealand attending the MYOB Incite events, meeting lots of interesting people, and learning lots of new things, we thought it might be a...
Notes on Bundles are Here
Adding notes to bundles will help polishing off your Financial Reports. Report bundles has been one of our most popular features. The ability to prepare and deliver multiple reports at the click of a button became a great time saver for many of our accounting and...
NDIS Test Sites: Sharing the Knowledge
Break Thru identified Five Truths from the NSW Hunter Region NDIS Trial site One of life’s lessons is that a combined experience can quite often help to lessen the impact on an individual, be it a single person or an organisation. It was with this in mind that a cross...
Coming Release: Add Docs to Reports
Now you can add Text to Report Bundles With next week’s update to your Calxa software you’ll be able to insert documents to your Report Bundles to create cover pages, notes, executive summaries, disclaimers and much more. These documents can include more than just...
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