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Use this cashflow forecast to project weekly receipts and payments over a 12 month period. Along with our monthly version, their features include –

• Commence the forecast in any month or week based on user input;
• Automatic calculation of GST owing to the ATO;
• Minimum cash balance warning;
• Input totals for actual receipts and payments at the end of each month or week to automatically update forecasts of closing cash balances in future periods;
• KPIs including total net cash received and minimum, maximum and average cash balances over the period are displayed at the top of the sheet for easy reference; and
• Handy graphs illustrating Net Cash Flow and Cash Balance for each month or week.

Calculations/Budgets & Projections/Cashflow Forecast

Records Checklists

New records checklists for 2024 returns have now been uploaded to Forms.  One constant challenge when preparing personal returns is getting all of the information you need up front.  Delays in completing returns breeds inefficiency, increases the time you spend on the job and ultimately affects cashflow.  There are two versions of these checklists.

A short one page version is a checklist that the client can use to either get ready for their meeting with you or to be reminded of the information you need if there will be no meeting.  Send this checklist to your clients before the job commences to ensure that there are no missing records.

The longer six page version is a fillable form that will allow the client to record all relevant information and send it to you without the need for a formal meeting.  Be selective about which clients receive this longer version.

Interview Notes

This form will serve as a checklist of the items to be considered when you prepare a personal return face to face.  One important use of this form is to ask the client to complete the “income” section of the form, with a Yes or No answer, while they wait in reception for your meeting. This will remind them of income they may have received and importantly be confirmation of their instructions to you about their income for the preparation of their return.

All forms are available for download from our site as either a Microsoft Word document, to allow you to edit the form to suit the particular needs of your practice, or as a PDF document.

Forms

Change to layout.  All calculations can now be viewed on one screen.

Calculations/2024/Asset Acquisition

New Layout  New Video

Analyse a proposed rental property acquisition by your client and advise on –

• Pre and post tax cashflow
• Weekly cost to the client for affordability
• Gross and net rental yield
• Equity at any point in the analysis period
• Investment return over the ownership period (whether still held or sold)

Or in the case of a negatively-geared property, use hypothetical information to profile an ideal property to match the client’s excess cashflow.  Tax rates have been updated for the 2025 financial year.

Calculations/Budgets & Projections/Property Investment Analysis

This handy calculator will help you estimate rental income and deductions, interest on investment loans, motor vehicle expenses and depreciation on related assets for 2025 for a PAYG withholding variation.  This year, all calculations are now in this one file.

Calculations/2025/PAYG Withholding Variations

You can now start using this calculator part way through the term of the loan by entering a start year and balance at the beginning of that year.  This update will help users move existing loans across from a different calculator.

Calculations/Division 7A Loans

Save precious time and use our trust distribution workbook for your discretionary trust distributions for the year ended 30 June 2024.

Using projected net (taxable) income for the year, you can view the marginal tax rates and income available at those rates for each beneficiary to make tax-effective distributions. The worksheet will convert those taxable distributions to accounting distributions for the trustee resolution.  The resolution forms part of this workbook.

And when the time comes to prepare the trust tax return, you can enter actual accounting distributions to calculate the individual (taxable) amounts to be shown at each return label for the beneficiaries on the trust return.

Click here to watch a video.

Calculations/2024/Trust Distributions

Click here to view an updated video on these calculators.

All HP calculators are no longer date dependant and have been moved to Calculations/Financial.

The journal worksheet in our HP schedules now includes a journal for acquisition of the asset.

Calculations/Financial

The 2024 version of our working paper file for FBT jobs is now available for download.  Updates to the calculator this year include –

• Protection over all sheets has been minimised to include just our formulas and labels or text, giving you more flexibility in adding your own data or comments;
• You can now import Excel or CSV data to any unprotected cell in this workbook with just a few clicks on that option in the Accountants menu, consistent with our other JobPaper files;
• A new Table group in the Accountants menu now allows you to work better with our tables.  Options in this group include insert or delete multiple rows, sort columns and fill down data (the latter can also be performed outside tables);
• Insert pictures, shapes, icons or screen shots in all sheets to make it easier for you to follow or review your work;
• New items in the Tools menu group include clear formats and fit or reset column widths to allow more flexibility in managing your data; and
• If you need help or would like to provide feedback, click on the Email Support button in the Tools group to open a new email using your default email program and our address and the exact file name/version will be inserted in your email.

And just a reminder that this JobPaper can be used for all employer types (taxable, exempt or rebatable) and has worksheets to calculate all benefits to be shown on the FBT return form.

You can access a video on this calculator at Main Menu/Videos or click on this link to view it on our YouTube channel.

Calculations/2024/JobPapers/FBT