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The latest updates and news on product and educational thoughts.
Top 5 Xero Cash Flow Alternatives
Businesses using Xero often need to produce cashflow forecasts. This article reviews its Cash Flow capabilities compared to some Xero cash flow alternatives. While the built-in forecast in Xero has improved in recent years, it still requires considerable manual...
New in Calxa: Express Makeover, Improved Reports, KPIs & Performance
New in Calxa this month will see Calxa Express users benefit from the biggest feature upgrade since 2010. However, there has been plenty happening for Calxa Premier customers as well. Read on for a recap here in case you missed something. The Calxa...
Reforecast Your Budget: An Important Business Process
Budget reforecasting is an important business process. Setting a budget at the beginning of the year is a great way to benchmark your business. It allows you to look back later and measure your performance against your expectations. Furthermore, it sets targets in...
Tips to Using the Calxa Budgeting Tool – A Guide
For some organisations, using a budgeting tool is an annual event. For others, managing their budgets is an ongoing process of revising rolling forecasts. Using Calxa as your financial budgeting tool, these tips will help you through a pain-free budgeting and...
5 Best Xero Reporting Tools for Managing Your Business
Xero is a world leading online accounting software. Many businesses are quite satisfied with their Xero reporting tool in itself. Especially for compliance purposes and daily management of your business, it does a decent job. When it comes to financial reporting...
Cost Centre Reporting: The Complete Guide
Cost Centre reporting can be complex. This guide will help you manage reporting on cost centres, projects or departments, especially if you’re using Calxa for your reporting. Whatever you call them, they are the subset of your organisational reports. They are...
Xero Budget Reports: How to Master the Art
Budgeting in Xero has come a long way since the early days. There’s a lot you can do, more than in some comparable accounting systems. Join us as we explore how to prepare Xero budget reports and understand where the limits are. Table of Content How to Do Xero...
New Features to Supercharge Calxa Express
We’ve listened to your feedback and we’re making big changes to Calxa Express in March 2022. Supercharging Calxa Express will help Xero users especially. They have been requesting the option of using Account Trees. On top of this, we have also added Report Styles to...
New in Calxa: Report Styles for Branding
New in Calxa this month, we gave you the power to add your own colours and branding at a global level. Apparently, not everyone is a fan of orange! Previously, you could take a deep dive into the Report Designer and format each template the way you wanted or needed....
New in Calxa: Improvements to Speed and QuickBooks France
We made a big fuss about the Business Unit makeover last month so we’re finishing the year with a collection of small but useful improvements. We hope that at least one of them makes your day! Report Improvements like ‘Using Actuals UpTo’ Reports are the...
5 Tactics to a Successful Calxa Implementation in 5 Days
Achieving a successful Calxa implementation is the topic of this article. A successful implementation of any system requires you to have a clear plan. However, a plan on its own is not sufficient. You will need to bring other stakeholders on board. This can be your...
Unleash the Power of Xero Tracking Categories Reporting
Xero Tracking Categories have come a long way since they were first introduced many years ago. Back then, they seemed a little insipid compared to MYOB jobs or QuickBooks classes. Today this is a different story. Xero departmental reporting is now powerful and agile...
New in Calxa: Business Units are Getting a Makeover
We’ve always worked on giving you greater flexibility to produce the reports you want. Our latest project has taken that to the next level. This month, new in Calxa, will be our latest makeover of business unit reporting: Business Unit Trees. Report on one, some or...
How to Implement Calxa in Your Accounting Practice
How do you successfully implement Calxa across an accounting practice? Once you’ve decided that it’s the right tool for you, how do you get the rest of your team up and running? Follow our 5-step guide and you’ll be well on the way in just a few days. 5...
Nailing Multi-Currency Reporting in Xero and Calxa
We live in a global economy and it’s common for businesses to operate in multiple countries. We’re going to focus here mostly on multi-currency reporting for multiple entities in a group. What is Multi-Currency Reporting? Xero itself does a quite a good...
How to Be a Great CFO
The business marketplace and today’s economy are rapidly changing, forcing organisations to adapt to new trends. This makes fiscal awareness and agility are critical to survival, to say the least. As a result, this places the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) at the helm...