Cash vs Accrual analysis | Voters

Cash vs Accrual analysis

Emily McCahon

Current review of profit and loss statement uses the GST settings e.g. cash to prepare the report, but actual management reports can be prepared on an accruals basis. It would be great to have the option to choose which method to use to prepare the analysis in Xbert.

July 23, 2025

Sunniva Andersen

Hi Emily McCahon - thanks for raising this.
Just to clarify where you’re seeing this - are you referring to:
a practice or client report within XBert (e.g. Financial Overview
) where the accounting method is specified either cash or accrual, or
the XBert Intelligence prompt (for example, “Provide a review of the profit and loss statements
”) where the analysis is generated?
If it’s the Intelligence prompt, are you looking to specify cash vs accrual as part of the prompt or configuration?
If it’s a report, is the expectation that XBert allows you to choose the accounting basis when generating or reviewing it?
That will help us understand the right place to address this, cheers!

Emily McCahon

Hi Sunniva Andersen,
I can see that the client report from within Xbert (Financial Overview) has the option to toggle for cash or accruals already.
The Xbert Intelligence prompt is the one that defaults to the basis that the BAS is prepared on.  Being able to specify what basis this is prepared on when we select which year we want the report to run for would be great.