Updates

Reports in the app's language

The reports you export are now written in the language you chose for Haruno in Settings ▸ Language: English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese or Arabic.

Projects

The sidebar has a new Projects row. A project keeps the chats, files, folders and web pages for one piece of work together. ⌘O opens a project or creates one. Haruno no longer asks you for a folder before you can chat.

Every company in your Portfolio now has a project of its own, named after it. Ask Haruno on a company's page opens that project's chat, and the chat reads that company's books. When you archive a company, its project is archived too. Restore the company and the project comes back with it.

Read a company's annual reports

Add a folder or a PDF of a company's annual reports to a project, then choose Read as company accounts… on it. Haruno reads the balance sheet, the income statement and the cash flow statement from each report. Scanned reports are read too, on your Mac.

Sometimes Haruno isn't sure. For example, it may not know which line is the profit, which unit the figures are in or which year a column covers. Then the report shows Needs a look, and Answer… asks you.

The project gets a Companies tab. Each company there has its own page with its statements over the years and its findings. Its Analysis tab says what stands out, how the company has changed, its strengths and risks, and what to check in the full report. Every figure the analysis quotes is checked against the statements. A point that doesn't match them is left out.

If a figure on a scan looks misread, Haruno marks it. Click it to see that page of the PDF with the figure boxed, then type the number the page shows.

The project's chats can read these companies too.

One customer is counted once

When a customer was renamed or set up again in your billing, the books counted one customer lost and a new one won. Now the close spots customers that look like the same one and asks you about them on Findings & questions. Link them, or keep them apart.

Until you answer, the recurring revenue figures say "Customer identities need review." Mark as Reviewed asks first if any are still open. The recurring revenue panel also names the customers lost and won each month. The investor report never names them.

QuickBooks

• A company added from QuickBooks takes its address and its tax jurisdiction from QuickBooks. Enter the EIN and the entity type yourself in Company details, because QuickBooks doesn't have them.
• Remove from this computer is now Stop syncing from QuickBooks, which is what it always did. The company keeps its books and stays in your Portfolio, and its card says "sync stopped".
• Archived companies are listed under Archived at the foot of the company list. Right-click one to Restore it, or to delete its data on this Mac with Delete Company Data….
• An archived company is also listed in Add company ▸ From QuickBooks. Choosing it restores its books.

Books that are easier to read

• The Portfolio says why a company needs attention, such as a short runway or an open serious finding.
• A company whose cash is below zero shows that no runway is left, not a negative number of months.
• A month's open checks are named by their titles, not by codes.
• The mapping review explains itself in plain words. Preview changes lists what would change, and Draft again is now Analyze data again.

Your data stays where you put it

• Haruno asks you before running a command that sends your data off your Mac, even if you allowed a similar one before. A scheduled task never sends data this way. If it tries, the run fails and says a chat can do it instead.
• Haruno checks what a file really is before it attaches, imports, previews or opens it. Programs and shortcuts can't be attached, and workbooks with macros aren't imported.
• Haruno's diagnostic records no longer keep what you write in a chat. Copies left by earlier versions are removed, and deleting a chat removes its records too.

Smaller things

• Haruno opens where you left it: the project and its tab, a company's tab, the Portfolio as cards or a table, and the scheduled task you had selected.
• While an update installs, Send waits. Your draft is kept.
• Memory and Suggestions moved from Settings ▸ General to Settings ▸ Advanced, in the advanced view.

Sync QuickBooks on a schedule

The Scheduled tab now starts with a task of its own, Sync QuickBooks. Turn it on and Haruno fetches new and changed months for every company in your portfolio that is connected to QuickBooks: every day, Monday to Friday, once a week, once a month or once a quarter, at the time you pick. Edit changes when it runs, and Fetch now fetches every company straight away.

A scheduled sync only brings months in. It never closes, reviews or changes a month, so close the new months when you are ready.

The task runs while Haruno is open. With Run in the background on (Settings ▸ General), closing the window keeps Haruno in the menu bar and the sync still runs. A time missed while your Mac was asleep or offline runs once when it can.

Updates by email

Turn on Email me a summary after scheduled syncs, in the task or in Settings ▸ Books, and you'll get emails saying how each company's scheduled syncs went and which months they brought in. They never include any amounts.

Smaller things

• Haruno checks for a new version every time it opens, and every hour while it runs.
• Scheduled tasks no longer have a field for typing a cron expression. A schedule set up that way still runs and shows as Custom.

Add a company from QuickBooks

Add company ▸ From QuickBooks lists the QuickBooks companies in your organization that are not on this Mac yet. Pick one and choose Add to this computer. Haruno creates its books and starts bringing in its last 24 months at once, and the company's page shows how far it has got. You can leave the page while it runs.

A company that is not listed yet can be connected from the same sheet: Company not listed? opens Intuit's own sign-in in your browser, and the company is added as soon as you have signed in.

Haruno only reads from QuickBooks. It never changes anything there.

Sync brings in what changed

Sync asks QuickBooks which months changed since the last sync and fetches those again, so an edit to an old month reaches your books without fetching everything.

Each month now brings more than its statements: the trial balance, what customers and suppliers owe, spending by vendor, the split by class or department, the statement of cash flows, budgets, recurring transactions, and the entries behind prepaid expenses, fixed assets and accrued liabilities. The close uses them to check the balances. For example, it checks that what customers owe matches QuickBooks' own aging.

A month that has not ended yet is on the company's page as it stands. The runway, the burn, the investor report and the questions for management wait until it ends, so a few weeks are never compared with a whole month.

Already reading a company's Excel exports?

Books you already keep on this Mac can be linked to their QuickBooks company. Use QuickBooks from now on moves a company from Excel files to QuickBooks and brings every month up to date.

The chat answers from your books

QuickBooks is no longer in Connectors. The chat answers about every company in your Portfolio from that company's books on this Mac, and says which month they run through. It doesn't read QuickBooks itself: for a later month, click Sync on the company's page and close the month. A question that names no company is about the one whose page you opened last.

Ask Haruno opens the chat beside the page you are on, with just your question in the box.

A trial balance and cash flows from the books

The Statements tab shows a trial balance and a statement of cash flows worked out from the books. Both are in the statement package, and the investor report carries the cash flows.

Headcount

Company details keep the company's headcount and the month each count is as of. The per-employee figures use it, and the company's page says which month the count it shows is from.

Smaller things

• LinkedIn, Git and Local folder are no longer in Connectors. If you had connected them, they are disconnected when you update.
• A chat you continue from History stays one conversation, and an archived chat stays archived until you continue it.
• Drafts of questions for management no longer show up in History as chats.
• The chat panel keeps the newest message in view.
• The Portfolio stays as it is whichever folder you open for chat.
• The sandbox download shows in the sidebar on every page.
• When you check a company's mapping, the accounts it already lists are no longer suggested again, and the note about recurring transactions reads in plain words.
• No reconciliation is asked for behind equity accounts.

A statement of cash flows and a trial balance, from the books

Every company's Statements tab now shows a statement of cash flows and a trial balance, worked out from the company's own books, below the balance sheet and profit and loss. The statement package you export carries them too.

• The statement of cash flows covers the month you closed and the year to date. It starts from net income and shows what moved cash in operating, investing and financing activities, down to the cash at the end. Like QuickBooks, it counts money received and not yet deposited as cash.
• The trial balance lists every account at the month's end, with its debit or credit, and the totals.
• If the company sent a statement of cash flows or a trial balance from QuickBooks, it is shown beside Haruno's own, as it was exported, with what it was checked against. It is never added to the books.

Each statement says what it was made from, the month it covers and the accounting basis. When the books can't complete one, because a month is missing or a movement has nothing to explain it, it says Not complete and lists why, rather than showing a total that isn't there.

The year to date now follows each company's own fiscal year.

In the investor report

The Investor report now includes the statement of cash flows once the books can complete it. The trial balance stays out until you add it with the eye next to its heading, because most investor reports don't include one. A statement exported from QuickBooks never goes to investors.

Smaller things

• Ask the assistant about a company's cash flows or trial balance. It says which figures were worked out from the books and which came from QuickBooks, and why a statement isn't complete.
• A QuickBooks statement of cash flows whose sections don't add up, that doesn't run from the cash at the start to the cash at the end, or that disagrees with the profit and loss is now flagged in the company's findings.
• Companies kept in 弥生会計 say so on their cards.

Fix a figure in a month you have already reported

Sometimes a new export changes a month you closed and sent out. Until now the only way forward was to reopen that month and do it again.

The company's row now offers Correct…. One sheet tells you how much the month's profit would move, what share of revenue that is, and whether it is big enough to matter for this company. Then you pick one of two answers, with the recommended one already chosen:

• Record in the next open month. The reported month stays exactly as you sent it, and the difference goes into the first month you have not reported yet, in the same accounts, with your note.
• Reopen and restate. Go back and fix the month itself.

Either way the correction is written down. It appears in the statement package and in the Restatements table, listed apart from a full restatement. If a later export puts the figure back where it was, the correction goes away again, as long as that later month is still open.

Choose what the investor report shows

Each section of a company's Investor report now has an eye next to its heading. Click it and the section stays on screen, greyed out, with the eye crossed through: it will not be in the report you export.

A section with no figures in it hides itself and says so, and comes back on its own once there are figures to show. Hiding a section does not change any number, so it never clears a review you have already signed off.

More QuickBooks reports, read

• An A/P Aging report, Summary or Detail, now tells Haruno what the company owes as of the date of the report.
• A Recurring Template List is read as the company's schedules. Nothing in it counts as a transaction; it is there for you and the assistant to look at.
• Some reports cannot be used — an A/R Aging Summary or a Vendor Balance, for example. They now say so when you add them, say why, and name the report to export instead. Before, they looked fine at import and only turned up missing at the close.
• A PDF that is not a QuickBooks reconciliation report now tells you to export that report to Excel instead.
• The Files tab marks files the company's mapping does not read and says the next close will leave them out. Draft mapping again… sits beside them, and next to Review mapping… on the Mappings tab.
• If a file is an export of a different company, the import says so and names both companies, so a file dropped on the wrong company is easy to spot.

A company can keep its address

You can type a company's address when you create it, and change it later in Company details, along with its country. It shows on the company's details card and prints on the investor report you send out. It is optional, and nobody but you ever writes it.

Smaller things

• When the assistant projects a company's year, it uses every month since the company's first figures, and says which number is a projection and which is a run rate.
• Restated figures print in the company's own currency instead of always in dollars.
• Reopening a month after a close was refused no longer says there is nothing to reopen.
• Discarding a prepared cloud change asks first and explains what it will undo. Unlike a draft, you cannot get it back afterwards.
• The sheets for reopening a month, closing one and recording an answer are as tall as they need to be, and a company's cash and burn cards stay the same height.
• Files that arrived since the last close are easier to pick out in the list.

Ready after every close, kept until answered

When a close finishes, Haruno drafts each company's questions for management on its own and puts them on the company's Findings tab, with every figure checked against the books. Use Draft again whenever you want a fresh set.

A question nobody has answered or set aside yet stays on the card after the next close, under Still open from the month it was asked about. You can answer it or set it aside there, and Haruno does not ask the same thing twice. Copy and Share… now include each answer under its question, and a company's row in the sidebar and its Portfolio card show how many questions are still open.

Reconcile a QuickBooks company from its reconciliation reports

QuickBooks gives a bank reconciliation only as its Reconciliation report, saved as a PDF. Haruno now reads that PDF. Add it to a company with Upload files, or drop it onto the window, and the month it covers counts as reconciled for that account, just like a reconciliation in the binder.

The file shows as Reconciliation in the company's files. A PDF that is not a reconciliation report is listed as not read, with the reason.

The newest export is the one that counts

When you export the same QuickBooks report again, Haruno now uses the one QuickBooks ran last, whatever the file is called. Before, a second export named something like "Balance Sheet copy" could leave the older figures in place. Once a newer export replaces an older one, the older file also stops adding notes to the close.

Smaller improvements

• Stopping a reply no longer cancels a review that is running in the background.
• The chat box no longer fills up with notes about the open books. Ask about a company and Haruno looks its books up itself.