Calxa Blog
The latest updates and news on product and educational thoughts.
Wow! $1million Milestone
Today is a very special day for the Calxa Team – and we would love to share it with you. Not only are you, our customer, instrumental in helping us achieve our milestone, but we feel like celebrating with family. This week we reached our $1million donation target we...
Calxa Online now Ready for Rollout
After three months of beta testing, we can finally say “it’s ready”. The first phase of Calxa Online is officially completed and available for customers to implement this week. This would not have been possible without the great help from a band of beta testers who’ve...
Build Scenarios for Tough Times
For many areas of eastern Australia, a prolonged period of below average rainfall has seen farming businesses experience drought conditions over the past 12 to 24 months. This has an obvious impact on production and income flowing on to local businesses and...
Learn Calxa in a Day
At Calxa we always value the contributions of our Accredited Partners. Their role in getting customers started is pivotal in enhancing that Calxa experience. Setting up the right mix of reports, customising templates and KPIs and general trouble shooting are just some...
Individuals Building Thriving Communities
Early October saw the Calxa Team attending the QCOSS 2015 State Conference in Brisbane. The topic for this year was "Individuals building thriving Communities". With an underlying concept of sustainability, the conference kicked off in appropriate fashion with an...
Simple Reports to Start a Conversation
In business there comes a time when facts are required to get down to the nitty-gritty conversations. Whether they are KPIs, financial figures or performance statistics, using numbers helps us to understand situations and make recommendations as to why they have...
Calxa Online: What do our beta testers say?
We’ve had a brave and hardy bunch testing Calxa Online for the past few weeks and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. They’ve been an immense help to us in ironing out a few bugs and monitoring and improving performance. One of the key benefits has been...
Why Bookkeepers are Valuable
The role of bookkeepers and accountants appears to be converging into similar territory with boundaries becoming blurred, as the industry adopts emerging technologies and increased automation occurs. Accountants are moving into the traditional bookkeeping space and...
Copy your Bundle
The Report Bundle feature has been one of our most popular features that we have introduced in recent times. The ability to deliver multiple reports with a few clicks has been an absolute time saver. Why not multiply that time saving by copying your bundles across to...
Join us at the New World Conference
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is coming and (almost) everyone involved in disability services is heading to Brisbane at the end of October for the New World Conference. We’ll be exhibiting and we’d love to catch up if you’re in town. The program...
That’s A Wrap; MYOB Partner Connection 2015
After several weeks of rolling around Australia and New Zealand, MYOB’s Partner Connection culminated with a two day event and gala dinner at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne last week. The Calxa team were there as part of the Add-Ons Solution trade displays, and it is...
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Cashflow, where does it come from? Where does it go? Sometimes, even with careful tracking and management, things can go awry. Unfortunately, in many instances, owners of small businesses tend to mix business and private transactions through the same bank accounts....
Consolidate the Flavours of MYOB
As an accounting professional, you are more than likely servicing clients that are operating on different platforms. If you work in the MYOB space, then this can prove challenging, as there is a range of MYOB platforms that could potentially be used by your client...
NDIS Risk – Bureaucracy Stifling Response
A couple of weeks ago, the Calxa team attended the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Essential Briefing in Brisbane. It was a great way of getting an update on the status of the NDIS rollout. The room was filled with people representing Not-for-Profit...
Little Brother ‘Small Business’
The recent accountants’ gathering “Xerocon” in Melbourne saw an array of speakers delivering their vision of the future. Key note speakers, the Hon Bruce Billson MP, Minister for Small Business, provided some insight as to the state of today’s small business. A...
Standardised Reporting for NZ Not for Profits
The introduction of the new financial reporting standards in New Zealand (NZ), is bringing a change to Not-for-Profit reporting. What’s changing? From this financial year onwards, some 30,000 charities and other Public Benefit Entities (PBEs) in New Zealand are...