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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...

Winners really are Grinners

Great to see so many Calxa Friends being awarded for their efforts. It was no surprise to see Calxa customers Delphis Australia taking out some well-deserved accolades at the recent inaugural Central Coast Aged Care and Disability Achievements Awards. Their services...

Flying under the ATO Radar

The last thing any business wants is a knock on the door from the Tax Man. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) sets standard industry benchmark ratios to give them an indicator of businesses that may be doing some creative accounting. So the key thing is to be aware...