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The latest updates and news on product and educational thoughts.
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...
Payroll KPIs to Benchmark your Business
Payroll and staff management have a big impact on small businesses. There are few areas better suited to quantifying costs, effort and sentiment with the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). These Payroll KPIs increase in importance when you consider how they...
Top 3 Business Key Performance Indicators
Business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are the numbers that keep you informed on what’s happening in your business. They’re rarely useful in isolation but if you watch them over time, they will help you see how your business is tracking. In addition, they will...
7 Uses for Advanced Account Trees
Since we introduced them more than 12 years ago, Account Trees have been one of the more popular features of Calxa. As with most areas, they have evolved and improved over that time. Maybe it’s time to stop thinking of them as Advanced and see the current version as...
Introducing Daily Cash Flow Forecasting
We’re not very good at keeping secrets. Over the past 20 years we have spent our time delivering monthly, long-term, cash flow projections to our customers all over the world. We have helped many to better understand the cashflow implications of a growing...
Top Branch Performance Reports
Preparing branch performance reports can be challenging for businesses and their advisors. There are many issues to consider, from legal to financial and more. Calxa can simplify and automate the reporting to help measure branch performance. Company Branch or...