Calxa Blog
The latest updates and news on product and educational thoughts.
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...
Xerocon Turns Melbourne Blue
Xerocon 2015 turned Melbourne blue. The Xerocon machine made it’s way into Melbourne with the two-day conference concluding last Friday. The Calxa team was there amongst the 1500 attendees, and it was great to catch up with existing partners and users, as well as...
The New Face of Bookkeeping
The Calxa Team recently took part in the ABN (Australian Bookkeeping Network) session during the Network in Paradise Conference in Far North Queensland. Peter Thorp’s ‘Time Capsule’ presentation was lively and certainly got the discussion going. It afforded...
Get a little bit Fancy with KPIs
We’re sure you are fully aware of the tools and shortcuts that can be used in Calxa to quickly create budgets and forecasts. But have you thought about adding ‘sprinkles’ to your forecasts and reports with a few KPIs? Key Performance Indicators are a great way to...
For Release: Statement of Cashflows
The Statement of Cashflows Software Update will be released Next Week. Last month we added a new group of reports to Calxa, featuring a Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Trial Balance report. While you can always run these reports from your accounting software,...
Calxa Club Travel Bug
Our team have got the travel bug and are on the road, we have the following Calxa Clubs coming up: Auckland 17 August Canberra 4 September Melbourne 16 September These Calxa Clubs will be focussing on Reporting in the Cloud where we will discuss the benefits of...