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  1. In new workpapers there is no ability to see which "notes" (Client Query, Review Point) has been resolved 😭

    What theeeeeeeee....

    39 votes

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  2. Those workpapers were available in the old version but are no longer included in the new one. I found them quite useful, and they allowed adjustment journals to be posted directly within the workpaper. Now everything has to be done manually.

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  3. When a document is uploaded then removed from a workpaper, it stays in the background when "Attach document" is selected. We need to be able to delete these if it was added by mistake or outdated.

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  4. Workpapers by default calculates negative tax when there is a loss. This is wrong.

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  5. Currently it defaults to In Progress and I can't seem to change that? At least in Old Workpapers we had On Hold, which we used if there were queries with the client and the job was stalled. And Done, when it was out for signing and waiting for the workpapers to be signed off. It would be really handy to a) be able to customise the Status, and then b) change it.

    Also I tried the Notify feature and that didn't update Status to Ready for Review either
    Otherwise looking at my client view of all workpapers in progress, we…

    10 votes

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  6. After I paste the URL on the Attach URL screen, I want to click Enter.

    My hands are on the keyboard. I don't want to have to move them to the mouse.

    In original Workpapers if I pasted URL, tab Type the title and clicked Enter, it would Add link.

    11 votes

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  7. Currently when an individual set of workpapers are marked as Completed, they can be then changed by a Preparer without it alerting the reviewer that the Workpaper is now not reviewed for that change.

    Once a workpaper is marked as completed, if any change occurs after this, it should be changed to In Progress immediately automatically (similar to how it changes from Not Started to In Progress). This would prevent that Workpaper from being changed without the reviewer being alerted.

    I would have deep concerns about knowing all Workpaper integrity has been maintained without this feature or a feature like…

    15 votes

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  8. It would be good to visibly show the period Xero is locked up to. As a reviewer I want to know Xero is left locked without leaving workpapers to check.

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  9. The Net profit amount that pulls through to Xero Workpapers treats trust distributions to beneficiaries as expenses. They should be excluded (as it does with Income Tax Expense and Dividends Paid).

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  10. Despite the fact I raised this years ago, it was ignored when building the new Workpapers (ironically, this workpaper is one of the few that mimics the original Workpapers layout).

    https://productideas.xero.com/forums/967127-practice-tools/suggestions/47262578-workpapers-payg-instalments-section-issue-with

    The Income Tax workpaper (attached):
    a. correctly shows 4 x current year PAYG Instalments in the 2025 Tax to pay/(refund) section
    b. correctly shows the prior year June PAYG Instalment in the Balance sheet income tax reconciliation section
    c. incorrectly automatically includes the current year June PAYG Instalment (copied from the section above), in the Balance sheet income tax reconciliation section

    99.99% of the time, the prior year June…

    9 votes

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  11. When documents are attached to line items, could they please also show in the Supporting documents section? Currently, they only appear again if you click the line item.

    For example, on the Bank Reconciliation workpaper, a statement has been attached to each bank account line, but when the workpaper is opened again, you only know something is attached due to the icon under Actions. You have to click on the line item for the supporting document to appear below (which isn't intuitive).

    Everything attached should show in the Supporting documents section, as per the old Workpapers.

    7 votes

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  12. 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.

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  13. Ability to add in the checklist section more description/content in the checklist section of the workpaper lines. This would allow us to include essential sections required by the CPA, like Engagement Acceptance/Continuance and Knowledge of the Entity. I built these in the classic Workpapers. Too bad I can't carry over the Workpapers lines I built in the classic version. I attached a screenshot of one section in classic Workpapers showing a line, the guidance and comments.

    5 votes

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  14. 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.

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  15. 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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  16. 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).

    7 votes

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  17. More clicks. I don't want more clicks.

    I understand security.. but if someone has already hacked my Xero account, gone to Workpapers, attached a URL to an account - I have bigger security issues than the fact I will be clicking a link within my (supposedly secure) Xero account!!!

    Our URLs are to our SharePoint. I do not want to confirm I want to proceed. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

    7 votes

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  18. Lol. I just noticed that the checkbox in a Workpaper says Mark Accounts as Completed.

    How unintuitive is that?

    On the All Workpapers screen the checkbox is for selecting (and performing functions). This makes sense, even if it is ridiculous the million steps you need to take to deactivate a workpaper.

    Why would you have the icon exactly the same but have the behaviour completely different?

    Why wouldn't you put a heading above the checkbox to explain what it is for? (If it's for marking the account as completed)

    Why can't we see that the accounts in that workpaper are…

    7 votes

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  19. Ability to Highlight and Edit Documents (i.e. add text box or erase sensitive information) already uploaded to Xero Workpapers

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  20. It's bad enough having 3 workpapers for the profit and loss... I can't change where any of the accounts go and now Wages (1 account) is split off into its own 😅

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