See how this season ranks since 1900
Rainfall totals are only useful once you know whether they are good or bad for the time of year. This release puts that judgement on the Rainfall page, ranking your farm's season against every year back to 1900. It also gives ESSENTIALS a guided start, so a year of figures from Xero, MYOB or your own books ends up checked and ready to compare.
One sentence tells you where the season stands
SEASON > Rainfall now opens with a line above the calendar that says it plainly: how much rain has fallen so far, what decile that ranks as, and what period and years it is being measured against. The ranking uses the same decile scale the Bureau of Meteorology uses on its own maps, so a decile means the same thing here as it does on the nightly news. Below it, a chart plots the season's running total inside shaded bands for the driest years, the middle and the wettest years since 1900, with your own gauge drawn over the top and dashed lines showing how the season could finish from here.
See how rainfall deciles workSwitch between the windows that matter to your planning
Rainfall does not fall on a calendar-year clock, so the page lets you flick between the current season, the growing season (April to October), the financial year, the calendar year or a single month, and the ranking, the chart and the totals all follow. Every month gets its own bar, tinted by the decile it fell in, with a mark for the long-term median so it is obvious at a glance whether a month ran ahead of or behind normal. The printed report pack now carries the same rainfall picture.
Rain gauge entries are never overwritten
Import Month and Import Full Season used to replace every day in the window with the imported figures, even days you had typed in yourself from your own gauge. They now leave any day you have entered by hand exactly as it is, and tell you how many of your own days were kept.
ESSENTIALS takes you through your figures one step at a time
Getting a year of figures into ESSENTIALS now comes with a walkthrough, whether they come from Xero, from MYOB or from your own books typed in by hand. A bar along the bottom of each screen shows the step you are on and takes you to the next one, from bringing the figures in and sorting your expenses, through setting depreciation at a market rate and putting market values on land, machinery and livestock, to leaving out loans between your own entities. Once a year is done you are offered the year before, so with three years in you can see the trend on the Comparison screen. At the end you can book a free 30-minute call with Mike to go through your figures and plan the season ahead.
Check my figures looks over the year for you
Press Check my figures on the ESSENTIALS Dashboard and the year is checked for the things that most often throw a set of farm figures out, such as income tax, capital works, personal drawings or a partner's share of the profit sitting in the expenses, or machinery still at its tax value. Each point says what it found and what to do about it. Imported Xero expenses also land in the cost type we would choose for them, and the dashboard dials and comparison charts have been redrawn so the numbers are easier to read on screen and in print.
Rename a scenario, and see livestock health costs item by item
A scenario could only be named when it was created. Now you can open it, go to its Dashboard and choose Action > Rename scenario, and the new name shows everywhere straight away. And if you would rather see drench, vaccine and the rest as separate lines in the Cash Flow, a new setting under SEASON > Dashboard > Show Info lists livestock health costs one line per item, the way crop costs already work. It stays as one line per enterprise unless you turn it on.
Plus Enterprise Summary now lists each pasture type separately, Crop Summary is now called Paddock Summary, the Cash Flow edit window has more help dots, your Xero connection stays connected while you import, and cash flow printouts are tidier.