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The latest updates and news on product and educational thoughts.
How To Forecast Tax Liabilities
For many accountants, how to forecast tax liabilities for their clients, is a regular challenge. But it is an important task that is part of their bread-and-butter services. The certainty of paying taxes is often ascribed to Benjamin Franklin, but he was in many ways,...
New in Calxa: Excel Spreadsheet Integration
New in Calxa this month is a bit of a surprise. We call it Calxa Unplugged. It means that Calxa now works without a connected accounting system. It's a combination of creating the structure manually and bringing in some from an Excel Spreadsheet. After many years (did...
New in Calxa: Loan Wizard to Calculate Budget for You
Those of you who remember the Calxa desktop application will know that it included a simple but useful loan calculator. The good news is that we have now added that to the online app for everyone to use. The new loan wizard was released last week. What...
7 Examples Of How To Use Calxa With Spreadsheets
One of the benefits of using Calxa has always been the simple connection to an accounting system. An alternative, is to use Calxa with your spreadsheets. Linking to your Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks means Calxa does some of the hard work for you. However, not everyone...
How To Prepare A Cash Flow Forecast In Under 30 Minutes
If I said to you “I’ll show you how to prepare a cash flow forecast in under 30 minutes” would you believe me? I dare say that, just like me, you have spent half a lifetime in spreadsheets. Possibly adding new rows, tweaking formulas, double-checking the numbers as...
The Best Way To Do Group Consolidation Reporting
Group consolidation reporting, also referred to a multi-company consolidation, can be a time-consuming task for any CFO (Chief Financial Officer). Often, it involves a plethora of spreadsheets with multiple interconnecting worksheets. The effort you need to keep this environment balanced and reconciled is agony for many. It can fall over just by overriding one formula. And, sometimes, you may not even notice the error until months down the track. The desired outcome is the need to see several business activities wrapped up into a combined financial statement. A view to give a snapshot across all companies and to track the overall performance.
5 Signs You Might Be Trading Insolvent
Trading insolvent is a dirty phrase in business. The reality is, many of us run our businesses very close to the wind at times. There are many successful businesses who have struggled with cash flow at some point in their existence. Just having tight cash flow does...
New in Calxa: Multi-Currency Consolidation
Many of our customers work with companies in different countries and therefore different currencies. From early June, you will be able to consolidate those companies in Calxa using a full multi-currency consolidation. This is in lieu of the current simple company rate...
Calxa Menu Makeover Is Here
There’s never a good time to change the menu in any application. But, that’s exactly what we’re about to do in Calxa. The Calxa menu makeover is going live in the second week of May. Calxa Menu Makeover to Help Find What You Need We have recognised that the...
Budgeting for COVID-19 Government Assistance
The world is currently in the grip of both a medical and an economic crisis. Governments around the world have responded with financial stimulus measures, including financial support for businesses. How do you budget for COVID-19 Government Assistance and forecast the...
Cash Flow Scenarios to Mitigate a Crisis
Preparing multiple cash flow scenarios will help you think through the implications of different situations and be prepared. This means that you’ll come to a much quicker decision later on, when you’re under pressure to act fast.
Consolidate any Calxa Report
Whether you are consolidating 2 companies or 200 or the accounting data is in MYOB, Xero or QuickBooks, Calxa has always had a strong reputation for powerful, flexible reporting. Now you can consolidate any Calxa report. Our consolidated reporting has always included...
7 Important Business KPIs for Cash Management
KPIs for cash management provide businesses with a quick way of monitoring availability of cash. Unless you have the luxury of a few spare millions sitting idle, managing cash is important for every organisation. Here, we discuss our selection of the important KPIs...
Balance Sheet Analysis Using KPIs
Many people find the Balance Sheet dark and mysterious. It’s something to leave to their accountant to worry about. However, it can tell you a lot about the health of your business. Doing a Balance Sheet Analysis using KPIs can help you to gain valuable insights....
Calxa Roadmap 2025
The Calxa Roadmap for 2025 started where we left off in 2024 with more Dynamic Column reports. Aged Payables and Receivables reports will quickly follow along with collaboration tools, a flexible report builder and much more. Read on for the details! ...
Analysing the Balance Sheet
Analysing the Balance Sheet covers an area many business owners stay away from. Most entrepreneurs are familiar with the Profit & Loss or Income Statement. The Balance Sheet is less commonly used and many people find it mysterious and hard to understand. If you...
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