📊 Using Books Review and Reports with Xero
Last Updated: October 2026
If your firm connects client workspaces to Xero, you can use Books Review and Reports to catch data issues early and generate polished financial reports for those clients, with a few differences noted below.
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🔗 Before You Begin
📝 Note: If your Xero connection was set up before Books Review and Reports were available for Xero, you may need to reconnect the workspace to grant the permissions they require. If a client’s Books Review or Reports tab isn’t loading data as expected, reconnecting is the first thing to try.
See: 🔗 How to Set Up the Client Hub Integration with Xero
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📖 Books Review with Xero
Books Review for Xero-connected workspaces surfaces the following categories of issues:
- Expense inconsistencies
- Missing payees
- Missing attachments
- Large transactions
- New accounts
- New vendors
- New customers
- Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss review
For each item, you can:
- Review or recategorize the transaction
- Add an internal comment for your team
- Create a Client Task directly from the item
- Run AI Analysis for deeper insight
- Open the record directly in Xero
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🧾 Reports with Xero
Xero-connected workspaces can generate the following core management reports:
- Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss reports
- Custom report periods
- Comparison periods
- Cash or accrual accounting method
- AI Insights
- PDF generation
- Overdrawn bank accounts shown under Liabilities on the Balance Sheet, the same way Xero displays them
Once generated, reports can be published to selected Client Users, downloaded, or emailed.
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🧠 Tips
- If a report or Books Review category seems to be missing data, check that the Xero connection has been reconnected to grant the required permissions first.