13th November, 2025
The overarching themes for MYOB Practice Compliance this year are connect, expand, and strengthen.
MYOB Practice Compliance is our connected, cloud-based solution for MYOB Accountant’s Office and Accountant’s Enterprise (AO/AE) users. It connects client ledgers into a single compliance workflow, including workpapers, financial statements, tax returns and digital approval portals.
While MYOB Practice Compliance has been rolling out modules and features for several years, 2025 saw it truly come into its own, with the release of all major tax return types on the platform. The Tax in MYOB Practice Compliance module released more worksheets, connected more workflows, and saw more customers shifting their work online. A total of 25,000 returns were lodged through the platform this year.
Client Accounting evolved, too. Financial reporting for more company structures, AI mapping and more core workpapers have all helped us lay a foundation for smooth, connected workflows and consistency. The end-goal is a platform that lets accountants manage all their account prep in one place, with simple, standardised templates and automation to accelerate work.
In case you missed anything, here’s a look at some of the most important changes:
For Tax in MYOB Practice Compliance, 2025 has seen two major shifts. First, we’ve taken some big steps — or many smaller steps — toward complete tax compliance coverage on the platform. Pre-2025, you could prepare and lodge major returns in the cloud, but had to go back to MYOB Accountant’s Enterprise or Accountant’s Office (AE/AO) for specialist returns or worksheets. Bringing more returns online means less switching between platforms and increased productivity for practices.
The second improvement is enhanced functionality and flow. Last year, some workflows involved manual steps, data being checked or moved between tools, and disconnected communication with clients. Now, thanks to some significant workflow and design updates, workflows are smooth and connected, making life easier for your people and your clients.
As a result of these changes, practices previously using MYOB AO or AE have been moving their returns to Tax in MYOB Practice Compliance. Hundreds of practices across Australia have already made the switch.
Here are eight key improvements and what they mean for your practice:
2025 was the year of the specialised return. After launching with core returns, we introduced a wider range of less-common returns over the year, including FBT, FTE, IEE, TFN Withholding and TFN Annual, each with a supporting schedule. This gives us full compliance coverage, with the exception of Self-Managed Super Funds (SMSF), which will still be managed in MYOB AE/AO.
Key benefit: Productivity. With a near-comprehensive set of returns available in the cloud, your practice can minimise back-and-forth between platforms, getting more done each day.
We launched several new standardised worksheets over the year, starting with the Small Business Income Worksheet for Trust and Partnership returns in the first half of the year, then the Foreign Rental Property worksheet and the highly-anticipated Capital Gains Tax worksheet. These simplify the return prep process, giving practices consistent results with less toggling between cloud and desktop platforms.
Key benefit: Productivity. A consistent format for worksheets makes life easier for your people, so they can achieve more.
A new amendment feature gives you the flexibility to adjust a return late in the process. Instead of restarting a return, you can dip in and amend it if a client changes details at the last minute.
Key benefit: Streamlining client service. Your practice can do more for clients in the cloud platform, which means quicker turnarounds and fewer delays.
Thanks to the Income Tax Client Report (ITCRPT), which launched mid-year, it’s now easier to track tax lodgement dates across clients.
Key benefit: Better client service. With upcoming due dates in one place, there’s no chance of missing a due date and being hit with a late lodgement penalty.
Every time you have to copy and paste information from one form to another, it’s an opportunity to enter the wrong number or miss a digit. We’ve reduced the risk with a new auto-fill function for asset depreciation – the platform pulls key information directly from the asset register and drops it into the relevant section of your return. Not only that, but the system also generates a clear depreciation summary to send to clients.
Key benefit: Speed and accuracy. Cloud-based tax software allows direct data sharing between documents, which means details are accurate every time.
Since the beginning of the year, users have been able to store and pre-fill ATO data by saving the report into the documents tab of a return. This means you can check details, compare data, and copy figures without flipping between the ATO page and your own system.
Key benefit: Time savings. With less back-and-forth, returns are finished more quickly and need fewer revisions.
Simple client communication is now built into our system, with new and improved tax estimate PDFs. The new look is designed to be easy for non-accountants to read and understand, with clearer summaries and simplified tax estimate breakdowns.
Key benefit: Enhanced service, with less frustration or confusion for clients
Most recently, we went live with a significant software redesign, focused on smoother navigation, reduced scrolling and simplified switching between schedules. It’s a good example of our approach, which prioritises continuous improvement in response to feedback from our clients. This change aims to save time and make life easier for your team.
Key benefit: Productivity. All those tiny time-savings over a return add up to significant gains for your team.
For cloud-based Client Accounting, 2025 was about creating a complete, connected workflow for all compliance tasks. Two broad changes helped us get there: the introduction of AI mapping and the launch of financial reporting and workpapers for all core entity types.
We started the year by giving some clients early access to the platform, including financial reporting and six workpapers covering core accounting functions. More workpapers went live throughout the year, along with expanded financial reporting functionality and AI-powered mapping.
Here’s a look at some of the key updates and what they mean for your practice:
Our AI mapping feature automates the data entry process, standardising data from any source to create a consistent chart of accounts for each client. This means data flows seamlessly from workpapers to financial statements, saving time for your team and giving them a clean, structured foundation to work from.
Key benefit: Fast, accurate work. With accurate data automatically flowing through the system, you have fewer mismatches and reconciliation issues.
A major milestone: we now have more than 30 standardised workpapers live in the Client Accounting platform. These are the core workpapers , powering the everyday work of accounting practices. Each new release of workpapers builds on the last, accelerating time savings and consistency.
Key benefit: Improved productivity. More workpapers in one place, less time wrangling rogue spreadsheets and manually updating data.
Client Accounting launched with financial reporting for companies. By mid-year, this had expanded to partnerships, trusts and sole traders. This means that the platform can deliver financial statements for family group entities.
Key benefit: Enhanced client service. With full financial reporting , practices can serve family groups in the cloud, using a single, consistent process.
In the second half of the year, self-guided onboarding went live, giving practices an accelerated pathway to cloud accounting. Self-guided onboarding — as the name suggests — lets practices jump into Client Accounting quickly, with self-managed data inputs, short digital learning modules, and support from the MYOB team as needed. The idea is that you get started immediately and learn as you go.
Self-guided onboarding complements our original option, which is more structured, with a dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) guiding implementation.
Key benefit: Switch to Client Accounting quickly, with minimal downtime.
We’ve improved our CSV import workflows, so data from manual imports can be uploaded and mapped more easily. No matter where client data comes from, it’s imported, saved, and stored in the same way, so it can flow into workpapers and financial statements.
This aligns with Client Accounting’s file-agnostic approach. We want our product to be able to deliver the same workflow experience across data and file types, so accountants don’t have to struggle with mismatched data or inaccurate imports.
Key benefit: Flexibility and control. CSV imports give you the flexibility to work with client data from any source, while providing full control and an accurate, point-in-time view of what’s brought into your system.
After a busy year, Tax and Client Accounting in MYOB Practice Compliance are both set up for success. More workpapers, more smart mapping, more connection and better client communication means we’ve built a strong foundation for cloud accounting. And the proof is in the returns, with more clients jumping on board and lodging in the cloud.
In 2026, we’ll continue to build on these gains. With core functions and workpapers in place, we’ll be working to improve flow, connectivity and consistency across the MYOB Practice Compliance platform. As always, the goal is to build a cohesive, user-friendly accounting workspace in the cloud.
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