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  1. In the old workpapers, you had the ability to generate the income tax journal to post to the Xero file. It would be very useful to have this option again in the new workpapers.

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    Hi Bradley and others that have supported this idea. You may have seen we have made a recent update to allow journals to be posted from individual workpapers.

    It'd be great to check in with you here and see if this change meets the needs you have in this idea? We welcome your feedback

  2. The new workpapers need to carry forward lease schedules, borrowing cost schedules and any other schedules from the old workpapers. There is no way I'm setting these up again.

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    Hi 👋 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 🙂

  3. Can the spreadsheet have more formatting options - like borders so that you can have a top and bottom border on a total cell? Bold type?

    Also, it needs more functionality like being able to select the range of cells to sum =sum(select cells using mouse) instead of manually typing in the range.

    When you copy and paste from Excel formatting is lost and you cannot add additional lines past where the data pastes if past row 20 (The data itself can paste to additional rows). If data goes to row 19, you cannot insert additional lines past 20 either.

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    Hi community, appreciate the desire for more formatting in new Workpapers and this is something our product team would like to explore more but with a few other items in the pipeline atm isn't road mapped just yet.

    We'll continue to gauge the interest in this idea and as soon as there are updates I'll share with you all, here.

  4. The prepayment workpaper should have the facility to calculate the amount to amortise which was there in previous Xero Workpapers.

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    Hey thanks for raising this Idea with us regarding amortisation options in the New Workpapers calculator. We have reviewed this and moved it to Gaining Support, this means that others can vote and comment on this Idea. We will be watching the progress of this Idea and any updates will be posted here. Thanks again we appreciate your feedback on the New Workpapers.

  5. We need to be able to send the Client Queries to a client.

    The old Xero Workpapers allowed us to send a notification to a client's email, and the client would answer the queries and upload their documents which would be automatically imported into the old Xero Workpapers.

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    Hey Everyone! Thanks for the feedback on the New Workpapers experience. Xero Ask is available on the Classic Workpapers but as yet not available in the new Workpapers experience. We've reviewed your idea and moved it to Gaining Support 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!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  6. Mak the button to notify preparer / reviewer more prominent. The notifications are buried in a menu make them more prominent so the reviewer and preparer can notify each other when tasks have been completed

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    Hi everyone, thanks for showing your support in this idea. Paying close attention to the feedback in this forum our product team have picked this up and are now working on improving the visibility of this button in the new solution. I'll be back to share as soon as I have more news 😁

  7. When working in the manual journals, you receive a message that the journal is out of balance. It would be great if this message also advised the amount of the out of balance.

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback, Bradley. Our product team are watching the feedback for new Workpapers here closely.

    We'll keep a keen eye on the interest for this and let you know if there are any updates.

  8. Can other quality assurance requirements be included as part of the standard workpapers - for example independence sign off ?
    This will save us having to address this separately or add it in ourselves in workpaper packs etc

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    We're grateful for your feedback on the new Workpapers, Stacey. It's really good to get an understanding of improvements that w0oulkd be most useful.

    For now, we'll get a sense of the interest from others using this product here and I'll share if there are any updates.

  9. Aside from the fact that they are now miles apart, separated by a massive and unnecessary white wall of nothing.. the icons are too small (relative to the space available) and inconspicuous.

    Compare a Query on old workpapers to a Note on new workpapers.

    The old flag stands out like a sore thumb (as it should, it's a flag for a reason). Colour/contrast.

    The new note has changed the outline of the icon from black to light blue, coloured in the number blue (like the blue circle next to every account).

    This is not helpful.

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    Thanks for sharing your idea and the examples of the flag icon size differences. 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!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  10. 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…

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    Hi 👋 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 🙂

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

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    Hi 👋 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 🙂

  12. Is there a way that we could create a group or a link to all groups within workpapers

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    Thanks 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.

  13. Allow each reviewer to approve line items. There are now three people that can be assigned to a workpaper but they all share the same 'status dropdown'.

    We need to be able to see the preparer, reviewer and final review separately.

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    Hi 👋 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 🙂

  14. 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.

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    Thanks 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.

  15. The export produces a single PDF. It would be preferable if the export could instead provide a ZIP file containing the individual documents.

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    Hi 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.

  16. Preparers cannot flag status per account — status applies to the whole category. While notes can be added per account, it’s not easy to see which are ready for review and which ones are with queries.

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    Hey April, thanks for raising this idea as well, your continued commitment to bringing these points to us are always appreciated. This will be assessed by our product team. 🕵️

    Once they've reviewed the idea we'll share the outcome and update everyone, here.

  17. it seems that it is not possible to delete or reset a workpaper. For example, I created a workpaper pack for a reacl client to test. I since updated the templates, and want to reset/delete/recreate the workpaper so its i the updated format. I've messaged Xero support and they have advised this isn't possible. This means I'm not stuck and cant use this workpaper for this client. They suggested I leave a comment here.

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    Hi 👋 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 🙂

  18. Automatic ATO BAS data extraction.

    Will Xero be building the GST workpaper by extracting ATO BAS/IAS lodgments into the workpaper. Building the GST reconciliation manually with lodged data is time consuming. The data is there on the Portal, surely it can be dragged into the GST reconciliation workpaper automatically. This would save sooo much time. I know of firms investing heavily into robotics to solve this problem.

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    Thanks for your idea on BAS workpapers being something you would like to see in our future roadmap! Your suggestion is gaining support and aligns with our focus on continuous development. We appreciate feedback and ideas like yours help us shape improvements that benefit both our teams and customers. Please keep sharing your feedback and encourage others to add their support!

  19. The ability to create and edit our own workpaper to add to the pack (like what we could do in the old workpapers)

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  20. 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.

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    Hi 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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