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Workpapers - icons like Notes/Client Query are too small and colours too inconspicuous
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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Workpapers - Lock Down Preparers from editing Completed Workpapers
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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Workpapers - Fix Income Tax workpaper that incorrectly shows current year June PAYG installment
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).
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 section99.99% of the time, the prior year June…
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Workpapers Spreadsheet - formatting, cell selection, size of sheet
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.
15 votesHi 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.
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Workpapers - Post a journal without creating a draft
Manual journals have to be saved as a draft first. Then they need to be edited to be posted. This is an unnecessary step. Or if it is required, it should be role based.
13 votesWe appreciate the support this idea is receiving and will continue to monitor feedback this receives for consideration in future planning.
I'll make sure to share if there's any progress for you all here.
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Ability to add our practice workpapers each year
Prefer to have one set of workpapers completed in a single software. Within Xero workpapers have ability to attach excel template to specific workpapers for completion eg live stock workpaper, overdrawn current account, hire purchase workpaper, etc.
The most important workpapers have calculations that are required outside of verifying an account balance. Eg those mentioned above.
If unable to have all workpapers in one place, it's easier to stay with current excel pack.6 votesThanks 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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Workpapers - Show attachments in Supporting Documents section
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.
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Workpapers - Edit Checklist Items
Ability to edit the checklist item. Currently we can only delete and re-type a checklist item not edit anything that is existing
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New Xero Workpapers - Delete and modify period of Workpapers created in error
I created a new Workpapers and selected the financial year (eg. 1 Aug 2024 to 31 Jul 2025) during creation, but after creation completes the wrong period shows (31 Jul 2024 to 30 Jul 2025). First - There should be a way to change the financial period after creating? Second - Should be able delete the workpaper if created in error. Admin rights restriction should be applied to both.
5 votesThanks 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.
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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 - Line for prior year tax paid in Income tax workpaper
The income tax workpaper has the balance sheet workpaper. Unfortunately, you have to add an 'other adjustment' to record the prior year tax payment. It would be very helpful to have at least one line called 'prior year tax paid'.
11 votesThanks for your feedback on this idea. We appreciate you explaining how a dedicated line for prior year tax paid could streamline your workflow.
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in the Workpapers dashboard, ability to change Status
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…5 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.
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Workpapers - Make the button to notify preparer / reviewer more prominent
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
14 votesHi 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 😁
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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.
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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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Country specific currencies
Currently all values show as $. Working papers needs to reflect the currency used in Xero. Be that ZAR, GBP etc
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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.
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Workpapers - change Variance to Change or Movement (it is not a variance, it is a movement from one year to the next, which is expected)
It's bad enough that new Workpapers only show "Variance" for CY vs LY rather than CY vs supporting Workpapers (the whole point of workpapers).
This is not a Variance... it is a Change or Movement.
Variance is defined as:
- the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent
- the state or fact of disagreeing or quarrelling
- a discrepancy between two statements or documentsYou'll notice that these all suggest a variance is not good (it's a difference of facts, quality, disagreement, discrepancy).
In the accounting world we try to solve or explain variances. A change or…
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Workpaper custom set up - Checklists
When amending the Workpaper templates, it would be useful to be able to "edit" the checklist items without having to delete them and reset them.
It would be useful to be able to set the order of the checklists rather than defaulting to alphabetical.
It would be useful to be able to prepare a personalised checklist in this space as well.
We tend to tweak items from time to time. NOT reset them.
If this can be included as an individual feature as well that would be good. As some clients do not require these items to be done.
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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.
9 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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