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  1. Profit & Loss reporting MUST include before and after tax totals. The before tax number would also exclude non-deductible expenses such as Tax, IRD penalties, non-Deductible Entertainment. I use a custom section called Tax and Non-Deductilbe Expenses to calculate the after tax total.
    This is incredibly important because clients look at the Profit number and think they a doing better than they actually are, especially if the tax expense number has not been generated which 99% of the time they look at this report. Having the space for Tax Expense to appear will make them aware of the need to…

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    Hi Dave, thanks for bringing this idea to the community. We understand why having net profit after tax displayed directly within Profit and Loss reports could be useful for preparing financial summaries or reviewing overall business performance.

    The idea is to add a dedicated net profit after tax calculation line within the Profit and Loss report, allowing users to see the final after-tax position without needing to make manual adjustments or calculations.

    We encourage the community to vote on this idea if you’d find this reporting improvement useful.


  2. I would like an advance schedule for medicare levy to check through whether they were full time in the defence force or foreign person etc.

    and a schedule for medicare levy surcharge to input the date periods + to confirm if spouse/dependents had private health insurance

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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. 🙂

  3. Could we add a calculator button in the budget manager cell to do a calculation?

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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. When reviewing quarterly and annual figures from the Profit and Loss report’s account transactions, we currently have to click into each Xero Me app expense to see the description and confirm it’s coded correctly. Expenses entered via bank feeds or bills display descriptions properly in the Account Transactions report, but Xero Me submissions do not.

    This inconsistency makes it difficult to quickly identify and verify transactions without drilling into each one. Competing platforms such as MYOB, QuickBooks, and HandiLedger display expense descriptions consistently, regardless of how the expense was entered.

    An internal workaround suggests entering the description manually in the…

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    Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts! We’ve reviewed your idea, and now it’s time for the community to weigh in.

    If you know colleagues who would love this feature too, be sure to send it their way so they can upvote it. Aside from voting, other users can jump in and comment to let us know exactly how your idea would help them get the most out of Xero.

  5. Reordering lines in manual journals DOES NOT save, and it should be able to! If you click on the drag handle and reorder a few entries, then click save, only to reopen the journal later and find everything is out of order, reviewers will go crazy thinking entries were done in the wrong order when staff did it right... just xero didn't save the order of the lines... and best of all, this was working with the old manual journal interface and only broke with the "new" look and feel.

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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. 🙂

  6. It would be extremely helpful if Xero allowed UK Property Income to be entered manually within the MTD ITSA return, rather than requiring transactions to be entered into the ledger or quarterly journals to be posted.

    A common scenario is where a sole trader already uses Xero for their business but also has separate UK property income. Whilst it's possible to separate the figures using tracking categories, this still mixes business and property transactions within the same accounting records.

    Allowing manual entry of the quarterly property income and expenses for MTD ITSA would:

    • Keep business and property records completely separate.
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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. 🙂

  7. To calculate long service leave entitlements for casual and part time employees or employees that have had a mix of employment types, it is necessary to know how many ordinary time hours an employee has worked. This information can be extracted from the Payroll Activity Summary report although it requires the report to be exported to Excel and the data manipulated, which is extremely time consuming doing each employee one at a time. A simple report that shows the number of ordinary hours worked in a set period of time, filtered by employee would make it much easier for small…

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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. 🙂

  8. Why ever would Xero engineers by design, put unrealized gains on a P&L report? I cite The Bank Revaluations account. Even if just for management financial reports, a bank account is an asset and a revaluation is simply to show this value at a point in time.The Bank Revaluations account should be on the balance sheet in the asset section, but even with that said, bank accounts in Xero for client with multi-currency already reflect the correct valuation on a Xero client balance sheet!
    Unrealized gains and losses are simply that, Unrealized.
    I raise this point because Xero small businesses…

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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. 🙂

  9. If I have a report and a column is a formula.

    When I export that report to excel, the column has the underlying formula in each cell.

    The column even has that formula in a cell that is in a total row. This is okay if the formula is a percentage, but never if the formula is an amount.

    A total row with an amount should always be the total of the cells above it. Never any other formula.

    Other column types (such as date), do not suffer this issue, they will correctly insert a formula that sums the cells…

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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. 🙂

  10. If I have a report and a column is a formula.

    When I export that report to excel, the column has the underlying formula in each cell.

    The column even has that formula in a cell that is in a total row. This is okay if the formula is a percentage, but never if the formula is an amount.

    A total row with an amount should always be the total of the cells above it. Never any other formula.

    Other column types (such as date), do not suffer this issue, they will correctly insert a formula that sums the cells…

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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. 🙂

  11. It would appear that Xero payroll does not include a facility to enter a MTD ITSA category. When running the MTD quarterly report the employee costs do not therefore link.

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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.

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    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  12. For small business users in UK who have been submitting their corporation tax returns to HMRC and Companies House using the HMRC online filing service, can we have that functionality in Xero, please? Now that the online filing service is closing, we are stuck with a choice between other filing software (expensive) and paying accountants to file for us (even more expensive). It would be great if Xero could pick this one up, so we can file direct from Xero in the same way as for VAT returns - covering both HMRC and Companies House (including iXBRL) requirements.

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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.

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    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  13. I am sure this is a design flaw that will be corrected shortly as its astonishing to see, the quarterly income and expenses PDF report needs an identifying name on the report. Once saved not in Xero it does not have anything on it to identify it.
    This needs rectifying with haste.

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    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  14. It would be useful, as someone who has to produce 40+ reports as apart of month end, to add a recipient to each report (similar to that of invoices) and send the reports via email thorough Xero with the option to send as PDF or excel attachment. It takes a lot of time to manually save, rename and send out each report. It could work similar to the email option on invoicing.

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    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  15. In the Cash Flow Manager overview, include the option to filter based on the AI projection for 'cash in' including the overdue receivables. The AI projection is available on the 'cash in' tab, however, that tab doesn't include subtotals (like the overview tab does and this is very helpful) and also doesn't include the ability to filter by the AI projection. Both would be very helpful.

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  16. Hi Xero Team,

    I'd like to suggest a small user interface improvement that would significantly improve the reporting experience.

    The Accounting Basis (Cash vs Accrual) fundamentally changes the meaning of reports such as the General Ledger, Trial Balance and GST reports, yet it's currently hidden under the "More" menu.

    As a business that reports GST on a cash basis, I recently spent several hours reconciling my BAS, General Ledger and Trial Balance because I unknowingly compared reports prepared on different accounting bases. Once I discovered the hidden setting and changed the report to Cash, every figure reconciled immediately.

    The Accounting…

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  17. Can you please add Start Date to the Employee Contact Details
    This will Help when entering payroll leave accruals at the end of the financial year for long service leave. Especially when there are a lot of employees - Save time looking up start dates.

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  18. Both the 'Finalised' and 'Filed with IR' boxes are the same colour, and both pieces of text start with 'F'. Twice, I have experienced glitches where I file the return with IR, it appears to have been submitted, but the status simply changes to 'Finalised'. Would it be possible to change the colour of one to a different colour, to help highlight the different states? Or change the text from Finalised to something like 'Approved/Ready to Submit'. I understand this is minor, and partly user-based, but I do think it could be helpful. Thanks!

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  19. Contact statement showing payables and receivables outstanding with detail of outstanding items. Currently have to run 2 separate reports where a customer is also a supplier.

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  20. Need to be able to exclude non-tax clients from the tax payments report when they are only included because they have a beneficiary schedule in their family trust. Many beneficiaries of trusts are not tax-clients.

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