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  1. At the moment there is not a clear and concise summary that the Reviewers can see the status of all queries, client, internal and reviews which is annoying. The same for just having a fully complete tick box on the summary worksheet somewhere - this should obviously be changed if a refresh is done and any changes.

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  2. 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.

  3. 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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    Thanks 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. 🙂

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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…

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  7. 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.

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    Thanks 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!

  8. 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.

  9. 3 votes

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  10. 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.

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    Hi 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.

  11. Workpapers - Setup - Allow users, other than Super users, the ability to set up Xero workpapers.

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  12. 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.

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    Hi 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.

  13. 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.

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    Hi 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.

  14. Consider enabling account-level access via a dropdown menu to improve usability, instead of having users open each individual code category.

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

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  16. 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"

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    Hi 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.

  17. If you're going to separate out the P&L into 5 different workpapers:

    Revenue
    Cost of Goods Sold
    Expenses
    Motor Vehicle Expenses
    Wages

    Perhaps 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…

    4 votes

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    We 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.

  18. 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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  19. In original Workpapers, if I was adding a Query to an account or workpaper, after typing the Query I could click Save and the Query was saved and the popup window closed.

    This is great and made total sense as more often than note, I am adding ONE Query/Note per account.

    Now I have to click save and then I have to click close.

    I don't want more clicks!!!

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  20. There is currently a limit on the length of the URL linking - this needs to be removed or increased.

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