The all-in-one cloud platform for faster accounts, tax, and workpapers

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Get a cloud-based, collaborative workspace for working papers, accounts prep, and tax—all in one place. Get Active.

Loved by firms of all shapes & sizes

Our Products

WorkPapers

2-way integrations with Xero & QuickBooks mean you can focus on the accounting whilst we automate the data entry. Standardise your Workpapers workflow in a familiar, locked-down Excel environment.

Accounts

Active Ledger & Reporting creates a set of accounts quickly and effortlessly with tight integrations into Workpapers. Complete consolidated and management accounts through to review with minimal changes and updates needed.

Tax

Say goodbye to manually rekeying tax computations. Active Tax automatically populates CT600 figures with detailed and logical steps to confirm calculations. Save time, reduce cost, and minimise errors.

Data Insights

Visualise the work being done in your firm, and find out where the friction is with operational statistics. Find and reduce friction for a faster, more streamlined firm.

Deep integrations to the rest of your cloud tech stack

Accounts, tax, and workpapers weren’t built to sit alone. With 2-way bookkeeping, document management, and timesheet integrations enabled by a powerful open API, Active fits nicely into your existing cloud tech stack to create automated end-to-end workflows.

Trusted by firms large and small

“ACTIVE WORKPAPERS MAKES TRACKING THE PROGRESS OF A JOB EASY, WITH CUSTOMISABLE STATUSES TO FIT OUR INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE NEEDS.”

Kate Edginton, Director, Hazlewoods

“We moved our personal tax workpapers from Excel to Active last year and were really impressed both by the flexibility of the software and also the support provided.”

Georgi Rollings, Co-CEO, Starfish Accounting

“Active Workpapers has helped to standardise the workpapers in my firm and now we're all on the same page. We particularly like the two way integration with Xero and QBO.”

Lars Swann, Managing Partner, The Bean Counters

“WE’VE ACCEPTED THAT WE’RE NOT GOING TO GO FULLY AWAY FROM EXCEL IN SOME CAPACITY, BUT WE NEED TO USE IT IN THE RIGHT WAY. ACTIVE REALLY HELPS WITH CONSISTENCY ACROSS THE BOARD.”

Adam Ginns, Managing Partner, Layers

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Questions? We have answers…

We’d love to help answer any questions you have about Active. If you can’t find what you’re looking for below, email us at activeuk@businessfitness.com or book a demo here.

When I create my workpaper file, can I pull through additional data as required?
If I create a journal in the system, will it show in Xero or Quickbooks?
If I create a journal in Xero, will it show in workpapers?
 If I’ve got a client on Oracle or Sage Line 50, can I bring this data in?
When the journals are all pushed back to bookkeeping, do they get sent as a single journal, or as individual journal entries?

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A cloud-based, automated, collaborative workspace for faster workpapers, accounts, and tax.