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Workpapers - Customise/Hide Columns in Working Trial Balance for Review
Can we have the ability to hide or adjust size/ minimise "reporting codes" & "adjustments", "Adjusted balance", "Variance" & "Assignee" - making this more customisable for easy review & based on what is important for each person.
4 votesWe appreciate you sharing your idea and letting us know which changes matter most to you. Your idea has been reviewed and is now ready for community support.
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The Ability 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.
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Edit documents already uploaded to Xero Workpapers
Ability to Highlight and Edit Documents (i.e. add text box or erase sensitive information) already uploaded to Xero Workpapers
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New Workpapers - Financial Year end default dates
Reporting period date: full financial year, based on Xero Blue Financial settings' year-end.
Not all the clients' year-ends are the same in South Africa
3 votesThanks so much for sharing this idea. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know how improving the default year end date behaviour in Workpapers would help your workflow 😊
At the moment, you can change the default financial year end month in Workpapers at the practice level, and override it in a client’s workpaper pack when needed.
We can see the value in making this easier and more intuitive, so we’re moving this idea to Gaining Support so we can better understand interest from the community and keep tracking demand for it.
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Manual Journals - Ability to post GST-only adjustments
When posting journals I can't see the cash / accrual options? When posting EOFY adjustments for non-ded entertainment and home office would need the cash basis option so updates in blue xero on the next gst return. Does selecting the tax inclusive from the drop down have this impact?
3 votesHi everyone, thanks for sharing your Inputs. We can see how the ability to post a GST-only manual journal would be helpful when managing more complex GST adjustments, such as imports or clearing transactions.
Being able to adjust the GST component directly could make records easier to review. We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support so we can track interest and share the feedback with our product teams.
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Workpapers - Automatic Journals from rolled over workpapers
It would be a perfect scenario that with particular types of workpapers, we could auto post journals in the following year.
For example - Borrowing Cost - if Xero created a Borrowing Cost workpaper that tracked borrowing costs and kept an amortisation schedule - this would then be rolled over to the following financial year workpaper - but it could go one step further where when it is rolled over and updated for any new loans or refinanced/paid out existing loans, we could have the option to auto post the amortisation journal.
Same thing with things like Chattel mortgages, especially…
3 votesHiya team, we have recently released the ability to roll forward journals in new Workpapers.
You'll find this option in the header of the manual journal tab.
It's worth noting as you'll see from the note in my image - While you can set a manual journal to roll forward, this will not roll forward debit and credit values as often these will change year to year.
For the time being, we'll leave this idea open so we can continue to track interest in being able to automatically roll forward manual journals with values. To get more insight of the use case we'd love to hear more detail of situations our customers have where you'd want to roll forward journals with the same values? Thanks!
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Workpapers - Ability to Link A Reconciliation Field in the Workpaper with Balance in Financials
There should be a way that we can link a field in the workpaper (say it's an excel spreadsheet) as the reconciliation field and it should match the Balance in Xero. The status of the Account should be able to reflect that it is "RECONCILED" in that the workpaper matches the balance in xero.
3 votesHi community, we've made a recent update that we'd love to share and believe may help achieve what you need here.
We've now added a supporting balance column, a new variance and change column.
It'd be great to hear if there is additional that you'd be looking for in this idea.
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Workpapers - Limit in File size attachment
Encountered an error saving large files (e.g. Deeds) – limit appears to be 21MB per file.
3 votesThanks for bringing this to our attention April, again your feedback is incredibly helpful when assessing our users experience. This is now being assessed by our product team. 🕵️ We'll share the outcome and update everyone, here.
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Workpapers - Allow non Super users access
Workpapers - Setup - Allow users, other than Super users, the ability to set up Xero workpapers.
2 votes✨ Hi everyone, thanks for sharing your feedback on this idea.
We understand how helpful it would be to allow users other than Super users to set up Xero Workpapers, especially where practices want to delegate setup tasks across their team.
We’ve moved this idea to Gaining Support, so others in the community can vote and add comments to share how this change would help their workflow.
If this is something that would make a difference for your practice, please add your vote and share a little more detail about who would need this access and why. This helps our product team better understand the impact and demand.
We’ll keep an eye on the feedback here and update the thread if there’s any progress to share.
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Workpapers - Pull through bank account name and partial account number
It would also be useful if the bank name and a partial account number could be pulled through to help identify accounts where a client has many bank accounts.
2 votesHi team, this idea has been created off the back of this earlier idea raised in community.
Although this isn't in our direct plans right now, we're keen to better understand interest for this directly so we can consider in future planning.
If there is any progress we'll share an update here.
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Workpapers - Indication of journals that are set to Rollover
Hi, I have able to find the ability to rollover the manual journal in drafts. However, once you select to have it rollover, you are unable to see that the journal is set for rollover. Would it be possible to add a text message of 'set to rollover' in the Rollover column so different people on the job are aware of the status of the journals.
2 votesThanks for popping back to update your idea, Bradley. I've shifted this across to gaining support so we can get a greater ideas of the interest in this here. We'll share if there are any plans made for surfacing an indication to help you identify where a journal is set to rollover.
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Workpapers - fix the buttons on the Note popup dialogue box
The buttons on the Note popup dialogue box are silly as.
Most dialogue boxes have actions on the bottom right. If a negative action (cancel/close), it would be to the left of the main action.
Add note button is middle left and miles from the bottom right.
Bottom right is the Close button. Close button is also highlighted blue, rather than white.
To point out how ridiculous this is.. as I am typing this idea, to the bottom right of the text box are two buttons, Cancel (white) on the left, and Post idea (blue) on the right...
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Workpapers - Manual Journals - don't require a description (Manual Journals in Blue Xero don't)
Xero doesn't require a description for every line of a Manual Journal. Workpapers should be the same.
It also doesn't highlight/tell you which field it thinks is required but is missing. That's so lazy of the developers.
2 votesThank you for sharing your feedback and highlighting the inconsistency between Workpapers and Xero Blue regarding the requirement for descriptions on manual journal lines. We recognize that in Xero Blue, descriptions are not required for every line of a manual journal, while in Workpapers, this field is currently mandatory. We are moving this idea to “Gaining Support.” as we are actively monitoring interest and feedback from our community to help us prioritize future improvements.
We appreciate your input and encourage you to continue sharing your experiences. We’ll provide updates here as we review this idea further.
Thank you for helping us improve Xero Workpapers!
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when you open an attachment it should auto open on other screen
Most accountants use multiple screens some when reviewing workpapers is would be more ideal for any attachments to open on the other screen otherwise the attachment is always in the way of the workpaper.
1 voteThanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.
If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂
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approve individual expense workpapers
It is difficult to do a second review on a job as your can not approve individual expense balances and workpapers. Also if you approve a workpaper you don't know if it has changed as the status doesn't update automatically. There needs to be an approval tick box for each attachment and each line of the workpaper to show that parts been reviewed.
1 voteThanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.
If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂
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New Workpapers - History of Activities/Events
Like in the Classic, it would also be helpful if each workpaper shows an activity history. Specifically, a log of who imported the data, who updated it, who marked items as completed, and who approved, all with timestamps. This kind of visibility is important for review, accountability, and audit readiness, especially when multiple team members are working on the same file. Having this built into Workpapers would make the workflow much cleaner and easier to track.
1 voteThanks for your idea here, Jessie. Good to have this understanding of what's important to our practices when working with new Xero Workpapers.
Our product team have a close eye on the different requests around this new solution from the forum here. For the time being we'll get a sense of the wider interest and I'll be sure to share if there are any updates planned for history like this.
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Show Journal Edit changes
When a user changes the journal have an audit report available to show what was changed. Quickbooks did this.
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Subheadings/Titles for notes
Enabling subheadings/title for notes on the notes page. This was really helpful in the old workpapers as you could easily navigate to specific areas
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Workpapers : Notes export
Workpapers - Notes
It would be great if the account name would also be visible when exporting the notes section from Workpapers. The screenshot is from a download done just now.
The export to text only extracts the comments, not an account code or name.
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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:…
1 voteHi Ariane, we appreciate you sharing your feedback on new Workpapers here, and understand how enabling more review actions within the Working Trial Balance could be helpful.
We'll be sure to keep you updated if there are any plans made for this here. Thanks
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