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Benchmarking is now live inside Figured, built from the data you already use. No uploads, no formatting, just instant, relevant comparisons. Learn how leading advisory firms are using it to turn reporting moments into stronger conversations, deeper insights, and better planning for every dairy client they support.

Milk price volatility is nothing new to New Zealand dairy farmers. In fact, the only constant is change. Fluctuations aren't just seasonal, they can swing dramatically within a single season, creating uncertainty around margins and making farm financial management challenging.

Introducing the Auto Kill Sheet Processor, a faster, smarter way to reconcile kill sheets. This new feature reduces a 20-minute task to just 1 minute, with seamless invoice syncing, AI-driven data extraction, and quick approvals to streamline your workflows while ensuring accuracy.

Unlocking agri-accountants from manual data entry is crucial for stepping confidently into the expanding advisory role that farmers are needing and asking for. Which is why we're excited to announce our latest Milk Tracker integrations with Open Country, Synlait, and Miraka.

With NIWA releasing their updated season outlook for Sep-Nov alongside some strongly-worded commentary and advice, it would be difficult to argue that we shouldn’t planning for an unusually dry summer. Here we have two scenarios we believe will provide an indicative view of what the El Nino summer might look like for each of your farmers. We would absolutely encourage you to adjust these numbers as you see fit and based on your expertise in your own regions and knowledge of your farmers’ operations. 

It’s been an exciting month for Figured and our community as we’ve released several helpful updates to our planning tools! With each of these updates come better efficiency, accuracy and value for your firm, so have a read below to ensure that you and your firm are across the key updates and are seeing the full potential of your planning toolkit on Figured.

We know how important efficiency is for our accountant partners, so we’re thrilled to introduce consolidated valuations in Figured - allowing you to complete your valuations for all stock of the same type in one go, rather than tracker by tracker. This will substantially reduce the time taken to complete valuations, streamlining your firm’s compliance workflows, and allow you to more easily act on opportunities for advisory where clients require management valuations.

2022 has come and gone - another year filled with a number of challenges, uncertainty, as well as some outstanding achievements from our partners. Figured has had an incredibly exciting year, adding several improvements, new features, and fixes to the app. To wrap up the year and share some of the great new features that have come to Figured in the past year, here is a recap of some of those highlights you shouldn’t miss!

Meet the new and improved Statement of Position allowing you to easily append and amend the farm data from Figured and your cloud accounting platform directly in the Statement of Position page. Now agri accountants and advisors can deliver expert advice, based on reliable data, enriched with financial insights more easily than ever.