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Blog

3 August 2026

Building the Sales Machine to Take You to $50M

Construction is a catch and kill industry. Revenue lives and dies with projects. There is ...
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e-Book

25 July 2026

Launch of Our Xact CFO Guide to Labour Pricing – 2026 Edition

Getting labour pricing right can make or break your profitability. In the building and con...
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Events, Webinar

13 July 2026

Tax Reforms: What’s Settled, What Isn’t, and What Not to Rush

If you run a construction or trade business, you have probably been told the tax changes c...
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Blog

30 June 2026

Tax Reform Update

Current as at 30 June 2026. If you run a construction or trade business, you have probably...
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Events, Webinar

30 June 2026

WIP for Builders: From Guesswork to Financial Clarity

Most builders can price a job from memory and read a set of plans in their sleep. Far fewe...
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Blog

29 June 2026

Loss carry back returns on 1 July 2026: what construction company owners need to know

Construction runs in cycles. A strong couple of years can flip to a hard one quickly: a ma...
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Blog

26 June 2026

Payday Super Is Live

From 1 July 2026, the way you pay super changed. Employers must now pay employees' superan...
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Blog

25 June 2026

Australian Accounting Awards 2026: How Xact Won Twice

Xact Accounting has won both Best Wellness Program/Initiative of the Year and Marketing Pr...
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Blog

24 June 2026

The 4.75% wage rise is already live. The question is whether your job costing caught up.

From the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026, modern award rates rose by 4.75%.
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Blog

24 June 2026

The instant asset write-off, and why this year you can stop watching the calendar

If you have ever scrambled in June to work out whether a purchase would be deductible befo...
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Blog

24 June 2026

From Static Budget to Rolling Forecast: A Practical Framework for Builders

Every builder has had the job that felt fine the whole way through. The site ran, the invo...
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Blog

27 May 2026

Construction Budgeting: A Practical Guide for Builders and Tradies

Most builders know how to price a job. Far fewer have a budgeting process that actually ke...
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