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Why won’t you talk to me?
One of the most frustrating things about modern business is the apparent poor communication between business owners and colleagues and/or clients. This seems to be a ridiculous statement when, like...
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Productivity Tips for Busy Bees
We all seem to be as busy as bees these days. We are most certainly busier than previous generations; I’m not sure that’s necessarily a good thing but none-the-less, that’s the world in which we all...
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Twitter Tips
Recently I attended a webinar about using Twitter. I thought I’d share some of the tips for using Twitter that I learned from the webinar: To make the most of using Twitter, you should engage in it at...
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Why You Should do Your Own Bookkeeping
There’s a big push at the moment to outsource every task in your business that you don’t want to do. While this concept has merit, there is one business task that you probably shouldn’t outsource, your...
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Media Articles About GST
Here is a list of various articles about the Goods and Services Tax that we have collected – some purely informational but others very controversial! Enjoy the read and we hope you find this post...
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How do our Clients Deal with Source Documents?
Last week we looked at source documents, what they are and why they’re important. This week we look at how our clients work with source documents, how they deliver them to us and the various issues...
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Load & Go: Australia Post’s Visa Prepaid Card – an Alternative to Petty Cash
The other day I visited a client who told me about Load & Go Visa Cards. He was looking for a way to better handle giving petty cash to employees for minor business-related purchases. It wasn’t...
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So far this year, I’ve attended 3 all-day bookkeeping conferences/seminars (and it’s only April!). I’ve attended each one hoping to come away with more knowledge, more skills and more business...
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Sleepless in Sin City
At the moment I’m regularly losing sleep over something that happens quite a bit in our practice. It’s something that really worries me to the point that I almost wasn’t going to write this post...
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10 Characteristics of the Ideal Bookkeeping Client
We’ve been running our bookkeeping business for over 10 years and in that time we’ve worked with many different clients; some have been wonderful and others not so great. So what makes a great client...
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We’ve Gone Paperless Part 1
Starting this financial year 2013-14, we’ve decided to go paperless! We’re changing our own bookkeeping processes and also how we keep our clients’ records. In part one of this blog, we’ll tell you...
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We’ve Gone Paperless Part 2
In our last blog, we told you about our new paperless bookkeeping system that we now use for our own bookkeeping/accounting. It works so well that we have extended the idea to that of how we store our...
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Any Tom, Dick and Harry can prepare and lodge the BAS……but should they?
It’s a well known fact that almost everyone can prepare and lodge the Business Activity Statement (BAS). Those who charge a fee for this task must become registered with the Tax Practitioners Board...
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Didn’t lodge your BAS on time? Here come the late lodgement fines…..maybe
So the BAS lodgement date came and went and you didn’t get around to lodging your BAS – what happens now? The Australian Tax Office (ATO) doesn’t look favorably on this behaviour. If they see fit, you...
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IMHO – Xero’s business model stinks! (but their software is cool)
I recently read an article about blogging which claimed that the best blogs are written by people who write about their own opinions. Apparently those blogs are more interesting to readers than blogs...
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29 Common GST Mistakes
Even though the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been in operation for more than 10 years, despite its best efforts to educate the general public, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is still...
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Employers’ Toolbox (free download)
Are you a new employer? Do you need help with getting started? Do you know what your employer obligations involve? Being an employer is a huge responsibility and brings with it added compliance to...
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How to speed up data entry in Saasu by using the duplicate feature
Data entry into your accounting software is a menial and thankless task but one that most of us have to do on a regular basis regardless. I think most of us don’t like it because it’s so time-consuming...
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GST Tax Code Software Comparison
Thankfully GST tax codes aren’t as complicated as actual computer coding as shown in our feature image here! What can be complicated (and confusing) however, is the way the major accounting software...
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ATO lassos super clearing house
This blog is an update to our previous blog regarding paying super contributions to the Small Business Super Clearing House via Medicare. From 1st April 2014, the clearing house will now be run by the...
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