Understanding the deadline calendar

Understanding the deadline calendar

The deadline calendar pulls together every open job and every open task from across your firm into one place, then adjusts each due date to account for weekends and public holidays. It answers a simple question: what actually needs to be delivered, and by when.

Where to find it

Open the sidebar and go to Practice, then Calendar (/dashboard/calendar). The top bar shows the breadcrumb "Practice" and the page title "Calendar", while the heading on the page itself reads "Deadline calendar". This item isn't restricted by role, so everyone on your team can see it, unlike some other items in the Practice section such as Profitability or Invoices which are limited to admins and managers.

What shows up on the calendar

Two separate lists are merged onto the grid:

• Open jobs with a due date set (anything not marked Complete or Cancelled)
• Open tasks with a due date set (anything not marked completed), capped at 2,000 records

Jobs and tasks are styled differently so you can tell them apart at a glance:

Note: Tasks on this calendar are firm-wide, not just the ones assigned to you. It's a deliberately shared view, so the whole team is looking at the same calendar rather than a personal one.

Region-aware working-day shifting

This is what makes the calendar distinctive. Every firm has a region, UK or UAE, set on Settings > Firm Details (admin only). The calendar uses that region to work out, for each job and task, the next working day on or after its actual due date, and displays the deadline there instead of on the raw date.

Here's how the shift works:

1. Start from the job or task's actual due date.
2. If that date is a Saturday or Sunday, move forward a day. Both UK and UAE firms use a Monday to Friday working week on this calendar.
3. If that date falls on a public holiday for your firm's region, move forward a day.
4. Repeat until you land on a working day. That's the date the deadline appears under.

The page subheading spells this out directly: "Every open job and task, shifted to the next working day for the [your region] bank-holiday calendar. The dates you see are the dates you actually have to deliver by."

Public holidays are maintained as a fixed list per region:

• UK: England and Wales bank holidays, currently loaded through 2027.
• UAE: currently loaded for 2026 only. Several UAE dates (Eid al-Fitr, Arafat Day, Eid al-Adha, Hijri New Year, the Prophet's Birthday) are Hijri-calendar based and marked as approximate, so treat them as a guide rather than a legal confirmation.

Note: Because the UAE holiday list only covers 2026, a UAE-region firm viewing 2027 or later will only see weekend shifting applied, not UAE public holidays, until the list is refreshed. Keep this in mind if you're planning ahead into next year.

Your firm's region is fixed once you sign up and can't be changed from within the app. If it's showing the wrong region, email support@accupe.com with your company name and the reason for the change, and the Accupe team will update it for you.

Spotting a shifted deadline

When a due date has been moved to the next working day, its pill gets a dashed amber line down the left edge (a non-shifted deadline gets a plain, invisible border in the same spot). Hover over the pill to see the original, unshifted due date in the tooltip, for example "shifted from 2026-08-30".

Tip: Because jobs and tasks share one calendar, treat this page as your master deadline view rather than checking the Jobs list and Tasks list separately. Remember that each day only displays up to three items before switching to a plain "+N more" line, so for a genuinely packed day you'll still want to open All Jobs or All Tasks to see everything due.