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New Workpapers - Export to a ZIP file
The export produces a single PDF. It would be preferable if the export could instead provide a ZIP file containing the individual documents.
12 votesHi April, thanks for bringing this idea to our attention. Again your contributions are greatly appreciated in this process. Your idea is now being assessed by our product team. 🕵️ We'll share the outcome and update everyone, here, once they've reviewed the idea.
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Workpapers - Provide automated email notifications and reminders for client queries
Automatic notify reviewer that there are queries to answer on workpaper
2 votesThanks for raising this idea, Julie. We can understand how automating reminder emails for Workpapers queries could help streamline communication with clients and reduce the need for manual follow-up.
We've updated the status to Gaining Support and will continue to monitor interest from the community.
Your votes and examples of how this could fit into your workflow help us better understand the impact this feature could have.
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Workpapers - if we're going to be splitting up the P&L accounts.. EXP.DIS accounts should not be on the Expenses workpaper
Profit distribution accounts might have an EXP in the report code (and Xero might force us to use Expenses as the account type in Xero).. but they're not expenses.
Xero has split Revenue, COGS and Expenses across three workpapers.. but still lumped profit distribution accounts in Expenses.
10 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂
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Workpapers - Separate workpapers for investment income and profit appropriation
Currently all income accounts are listed under 'revenue', and while MV expenses and wages are in their own workpaper, profit appropriation accounts are lumped with all other business expenses. Could we have a separate workpaper for things like dividends & distributions, as well as a profit appropriation workpaper?
2 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂
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Workpapers - Create groups for Workpapers
Is there a way that we could create a group or a link to all groups within workpapers
16 votesThanks for sharing your idea, Michaella! It's great to hear what improvements would help in new Workpapers.
We'd like to gauge the interest from others in this here and I'll let you know if any plans are made for groups.
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Problems with being a Reviewer using the New Workpapers
Reviewing Workpapers - when reviewing the file I have found two problems - first - when scrolling through the various workpapers using the arrow keys in the top right- it is including ones that are essentially excluded from needing to be completed - i.e. the shaded out ones on the front. 2nd - I have to click into each attachment - rather than using an arrown key to see each seperate attachment like we do at the moment.
6 votesHi team, we really appreciate the feedback from you here and the issues for Reviewers that you've raised. We've made some recent changes and are really keen to hear if these improvements have solved for your needs.
Now;
- when using the arrow keys in the top right to navigate between worksheets, those marked as Not applicable are now automatically skipped
- When viewing attachments, you can use the arrow key button at the bottom of the attachment to move between files (screenshot below)
Let us know if these changes have been of benefit!
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Workpapers | Income Tax - Reduce column width in L
A little UI matter, I know the column widths will scale depending on the window size; however, when I go into the Income Tax workpaper, the spacing seems quite wide even in a smaller split-screen window. It would be nice if the column widths were narrower
11 votesAppreciate the feedback, Adam. Our product team are staying close to the feedback we're receiving on the new workpapers solution so I'll keep you updated hear if there is any change planned. For now we'll get a sense of others in community that support this too. Thanks
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Workpapers - Option to Group Shareholders' Current Accounts by Shareholder
In the classic Workpapers, we had the ability to be able to group shareholder's accounts by shareholder to get the net balance, by changing the group name in the trial balance. This ability has disappeared in the new workpapers, which makes it difficult to get a view of beneficiary accounts in the workpaper stage (i.e., when trying to ensure a beneficiary has been correctly paid out their account balance). Would be great to have this feature back.
4 votesThanks for letting us know how we could further improve new Workpapers for you here. 🙂
Can see how you found this feature useful in Classic workpapers and we'd like to see the support for this in new from your idea here.
Welcome to share the idea with any colleagues that would find this useful so they can add their vote, too. I'll be sure to update of there are any plans made to group accounts by shareholder.
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Workpapers - don't use decimals for fields Taxable Income and above. The tax return does not allow decimals, the workpaper shouldn't either.
The tax return doesn't allow for decimals.
When people use decimals on an income tax rec (before/up to taxable income), we end up with rounding issues and incorrect tax expense calculation.
Taxable income must be a round number, all of the inputs into the tax return to calculate taxable income must also be a round number, therefore it makes most sense to make the workpaper only allow round numbers (up until the point decimals are allowed in the tax return, which is when the tax expense is calculated).
9 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂
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Workpapers | Manual Journals - don't automatically mark as Cash Basis
Journals (General Journals, Manual Journals) are inherently an ACCRUALS transaction. Not cash.
Manual Journals can't be recorded against a bank account in Xero.
Manual Journals should NOT be Cash Basis by default. They should be Accruals ONLY, by default. Xero should give you the OPTION to include your Manual Journals on cash based reports.
8 votesHi team, appreciate this idea is specifically around how you can process Manual Journals within new Xero Workpapers.
Right now the selection of whether to show a journal on cash basis reports is only available when posting Manual journals within an organisation at present.
Our product team are still making improvements within the new Workpapers experience and using feedback from the forums here to inform their roadmap.
This isn't planned at present, but I'll be sure to let you know if there are any plans made around enabling this selection within our new Xero Workpapers solution, here.
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Workpapers | Working Trial Balance - Enable Review Actions
Allow reviewers to access workpaper attachments for an account and to update the account status directly from the Working Trial Balance view.
Current Limitation
Our reviewers prefer working from the Working Trial Balance view. However, under the current functionality, they MUST navigate away from this view and open the Workpapers area to review attachments and mark an account balance as complete. These additional clicks add unnecessary time, and some reviewers find switching between sections disruptive and confusing. For simpler or low‑risk accounts, navigating away solely to mark the balance as reviewed is completely unnecessary.Proposed Improvement
Add the ability to:…
2 votesPleased to share an update with you here, Ariane! We appreciate the friction in the workflow you described and our product team have picked up work for enabling review actions within the Working Trial Balance.
I'll come back to let you know when this is released. 😊
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Workpapers - make ability to link documents/URLs to every line of Income Tax workpaper
There is no ability to link documents/URLs to lines on the Income Tax workpaper.
We need that ability so we aren't scrolling down looking for the supporting documents...
It's so obvious.
8 votesHi Sam, thanks for sharing your thoughts on adding document linking to Income Tax workpapers.
We’ve taken a look and moved your idea into Gaining support, so it’s now open for others in the community to vote on and weigh in. If you’re able to share a bit more about how you’d use this, it could really help others see the value - and give the product team a clearer picture too.
We’ll keep you updated as things progress.
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Workpapers - Manual Journal show full history of edits
The system currently does not display who posted the journal in either XWP or Xero (specific user).
Updates made to journals in Xero are not reflected in the XWP Manual Journal Summary.
Additionally, XWP only allows journals to be voided—there is no option to delete them.
10 votesThanks for your feedback around this functionality in the new Workpapers experience, we really appreciate the time taken to add your thoughts. Your idea is now being assessed by our product team. 🕵️
Once they've reviewed the idea we'll share the outcome and update everyone, here.
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Workpapers Tab - Analytical Review
Can we have a spot that we look at all workpapers, instead of having to click into each, this is something that reviewers find frustrating & creates a barrier for older partners (less tech inclined) - like the old ones "Analytical Review", if you don't add a link on "Working Trial Balance",
This is if we cannot have the links in the "Working trial Balance"
12 votesHi team, thanks for your inputs here. This is an idea that our product team are exploring and considering how they improve the collaboration. For now we'll shift into discovery and I'll share when there is more news around this.
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New Workpapers - Ability to set up new accounts when preparing a journal
In the create journal window of the new workpapers, it would save a lot of time if you had the ability to set up new accounts there rather than back and forth into the Xero ledger. Also it would be nice if the chart of accounts updated with changes from blue Xero when posting journals in the new workpapers.
8 votesThanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!
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New Workpapers - Include Journals in PDF export
It was a very useful feature in Classic workpapers for the journals that were created to be included in the workpapers pack that was exported. We have found that journals aren't exported in New Workpapers. Including this is key to ensure we have an accurate record of changes made to a file by the accountant, especially if the client leaves and we no longer have access to the records.
5 votesHi everyone ✨
Thanks for sharing your feedback on including journals when exporting a Workpapers PDF.
We’ve reviewed this idea and are moving it to Gaining support so others in the community can vote and add comments.
If this would help your workflow, it’d be great to hear more about when you’d use this and whether you’d expect all journals, or only workpaper journals, to be included in the export.
Your feedback helps our product team better understand demand and prioritise future improvements.
We’ll continue to monitor the support this idea receives and update the thread if there’s any progress to share.
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Workpapers - More options for Comparison Period
When preparing monthly or quarterly workpapers, we would like to be able to select the comparison period as last month, quarter or end of last financial year. Not just the same period last year.
10 votesHi Susan, great to hear your feedback on the comparison periods in Workpapers here.
As we continue to develop this new product we're keeping a keen eye on the interest ideas in this forum are building and I'll let you know if there are any changes planned for this, here.
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Workpapers - Working Trial Balance to show Profit(Loss) Figure
On the Working Trial Balance Section of the new Workpapers, when selecting the Profit & Loss section it would be great to be able to see the Profit(Loss) figure.
2 votesHi Chad, thanks for your feedback on the Working Trial Balance in Xero's new Workpapers. It's really good to hear back how our partners would find this more useful.
For the time being we'll get a sense of interest through your idea. If there are any updates planned for this I'll share with you, here.
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Workpapers - Option to split P&L into specific category workpapers
If you're going to separate out the P&L into 5 different workpapers:
Revenue
Cost of Goods Sold
Expenses
Motor Vehicle Expenses
WagesPerhaps it might be better doing it this way:
Trading Statement - this includes trading revenue and cost of goods sold and showing a gross profit
Profit & Loss - this includes everything other then the trading statement and shows a Net Profit - perhaps with the gross profit included as a formula entry from the trading statement. So it might show other revenue that is not included in the trading statement (interest, profit on sale of assets…
6 votesWe appreciate you sharing your ideas and letting us know what matters most to you! Your suggestion is now officially open for community backing.
To give it the best chance of success, feel free to share the link with colleagues who might also find it helpful. Now that it's public, others can add their votes and comment on how this feature would enhance their experience.
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Workpapers | Accounts receivable hotlink - link to summary report for reviewers
The current account receivables hotlink is the detailed report for Accounts receivable which can be very busy - ideally the summary report would be better for Reviewers who don't need to see the individual invoice level of detail.
4 votesAppreciate the feedback and how you'd like the accounts receivable to link to the summary report rather than details.
We'll continue to consider improvements like this as we continue to develop new Workpapers. For now, share this idea with other colleagues that would also find this useful so they can add their vote. 🙂
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