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The latest updates and news on product and educational thoughts.
Up Next: Super-Charged Bundles
Our next update, scheduled for the end of May (give or take a few days) will save you even more time when creating Report Bundles. We’re adding Bundle Templates with a selection of pre-set reports in a bundle to give you an easy starting point. The first version of...
World’s Most Inspiring Accountants
Jaques Stanmore Financial Group Win Awards We love to see our customers winning and Sydney-based accountants Jaques Stanmore have just had a couple of very special wins. They were named “The World’s Most Inspiring Accountants” in a UK book and also awarded for best...
NQ NDIS Working Group – April Update
July is steadily approaching and the full roll-out of the NDIS draws closer by the day. With all the preparation now starting to move into top gear, it is worth highlighting a couple of local initiatives which may be of some interest to the North Queensland based...
Managing Risk – Who’s In Charge?
In this time of considerable change in the NFP sector, Governance and Risk Management have stepped up a notch in importance. The Governance Institute have put out a useful booklet on Risk Management for Directors. While much of the focus is on directors of...
Connecting Up: Connect, Innovate, Change
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...
Community Transport – Social Mass Transit?
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...
Is it Time for Fixed Fee Billing?
In our previous article Bookkeepers Thriving in a Changing Environment (published in the ABN's Bookies Bulletin 4), we spoke about some of the changes and trends that we are seeing within the bookkeeping industry. In particular, how Fixed Fee Billing is one of the...
Snazz Up Your Reports
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...
Representing Best Technology in the Sector
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...
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...
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