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Work Ahead – Start Tax Planning for 2018 Now

Early tax planning discussions provide small businesses with better choices. Traditionally, small businesses and their advisors have started discussions on tax planning towards the end of the year. For some clients, it’s very close to the end of the year (or even...

XS: The Impact of Extra Small Charities

ACNC report on Australia’s smallest charities. The big guys get most of the attention but there are 19,000 charities in Australia with income of less $50,000. Despite not being over-run with cash, according to a recent report by the ACNC, many of them “perform...

Calxa Portal to Manage your Clients

Handle client subscriptions and workspaces with Calxa Online. If you have been following our Online Diaries, you will know that we’ve done lots of work on Calxa Online but not much of it yet has been visible to you. That’s about to change this month! And, it will...
Benchmarking NFP Boards: How does your NFP Stack Up?

Benchmarking NFP Boards: How does your NFP Stack Up?

Benchmarking NFP boards is not the easiest task for any not-for-profit organisation. Much is being written regarding the state of NFP (not-for-profits) Board practices across the western economies. It makes for some interesting reading and provides some good...

Spicing Up your Cashflow Settings

Sometimes you need more than just plain vanilla cashflow settings. Plain vanilla cashflow settings work for many situations but sometimes you need a little bit more. Sometimes you need to experiment, try something new. In Calxa, there’s a cashflow type assigned to...

Is there a Questioning Culture in Your Organisation?

If not, you may be missing out. Article first published on OPTIMUM NFP’s blog in 2016 Change management is at the forefront of many organisations. As funding changes determine a business-like approach to every day operations, empowering the organisations with...

Auto-Budgets to make Getting Started so Easy

Plus tweaks to the NDIA Bulk Claims and new Cashflow Options Our next update at the end of the month will give you more options in fine-tuning your cashflow and an automatic budget with every new organisation – so you can produce reports instantly.   Auto-Budget...
Choosing your Forecasting Tool

Choosing your Forecasting Tool

Preparing Cashflow Forecasting in a spreadsheet is hard work. Or, more precisely, forecasting cashflow well is hard work in a spreadsheet. The traditional method of managing timing of debtors and creditors, for example, is to make simplistic assumptions that...