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Business Activity Statements (BAS), for business owners reporting quarterly, are due on 28 July 2010. Contact us RIGHT NOW for help

For many small business owners and especially for their bookkeepers, July is always a busy time of year in Australia.

With end of financial year reporting, together with reporting of the 01 April to 30 June quarter, businesses that are behind in their paperwork can struggle under extra pressure that they really do not need

Cash flow has certainly tightened up in the economy. As bookkeepers, we’ve seen that invoice payments are being dragged out longer and longer, as suppliers wait to be paid by customers, and service providers wait to be paid by their clients

Focus on what you do best, and we’ll do the rest

The phone’s been ringing as desperate business owners in a panic wanting help with their MYOB and Quickbooks files. In most cases, they can simply email us the files and we’ll have a look at their reporting and can generally work out where the problems are within a short time

One lady contacted us after spending two days trying to reconcile her Quickbooks bank accounts. We had a look at her file and solved the problem in 35 minutes.

Look at the time and stress she would have saved if she had contacted our bookkeeping service when she first noticed that there was a problem

As a small business owner we encourage you to focus on what you do best, and we’ll do the rest

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is searching Facebook as well as other social networking sites to chase offshore investors

According to tax expert Tony Anamourlis, who’s a lecturer at Latrobe University’s faculty of Law and Management. He reckons that the ATO is using such resources to investigate investors using offshore havens. Whilst there’s been pressure on international banks to supply information, Swiss bank UBS has not been so forthcoming.

Why do people tell their whole story on the internet anyway? Apparently insurance companies in the UK charge a higher premium for Facebook account holders because people are so open. Individuals have been known to tell other Facebook fans that exact dates that they will be going on holiday, only to return to find their house burgled.

Why would high-net wealth tax payers reveal so much information in cyber-space? Who knows! At the same time, it seems that staff at the ATO have nothing better to do than to surf the internet. How much is that costing the Australian Tax payer?

As a small business owner in the northern suburbs of Perth, there’s many reasons why you should get your bookkeeping upto date before the end of the financial year on 30 June 2010.

Often clients are devastated when they discover how much tax they have to pay because they didn’t plan for the FYE (financial year end). Leaving it until after 30 June is too late.

We are not tax agents or accounts, but our team of mobile Perth bookkeepers can certainly help you get your paperwork upto date so that you can at least have three quarters of the 2009/2010 financial year upto date and ready to visit your accountant before the end of June 2010

We’ve had many enquiries recently from small business owners in Perth’s northern suburbs asking about MYOB Bookkeepeing for the December quarter BAS that’s due 2 March 2010

Rather than struggling and getting stressed out over it, business owners around Stirling and Warwick have contacted our Perth Bookkeepers, looking for a mobile bookkeeping service.

We’ll come to your premises and review your MYOB data files - we can reconcile your bank account statements and run various checks and reports to ensure that all the data has been entered correctly and allocated in the correct accounts

The Australian Taxation Office advise that almost 80% of BAS forms are lodged incorrectly - as many small business owners are challenegd with the task of completing their Business Activity Statements

Business Activity Statements BAS are due on 2 March 2010 for businesses that report their GST obligations quarterly

With the Christmas holiday period over for many small businesses, it’s time to get all your paperwork together and get it to your bookkeeper or outsourced bookkeeping service- to report on the 2nd quarter (1 September to 31 December 2009) to get your BAS lodged on time.

Maybe the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) does have a heart, after all. Rather than asking for lodgements on 28 January, they automatically give everyone an extension to the BAS lodgements to 28 February. This is, of course, a Sunday. However, the next business day is not Monday, since it’s a public holiday in Western Australia. Thus the Q2 BAS is due on 2 March 2010

However, don’t be fooled by their grace, because there is NO WAY that they’ll consider granting an extension after that date. So you need to ensure that you have your Business Activity Statement lodged by 2 March 2010

If you are struggling with your bookkeeping and need help, if you do not have a bookkeeper, or are looking to outsource to a mobile bookkeeping service, then contact us now

You may use MYOB or Quickbooks accounting software - or even some other system for your bookwork. We can assist you with any challenges, or even just relieve you of the burden of the book-keeping

Our bookkeeping Service has clients in and around Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, Perth, Australia. Contact us here for details

There’s a lady in Worcester , Massachusetts, USA who’s been charged with stealing around US $225,000 from a division of the Boy Scouts of America

She’s been accused of larceny. Allegedly, as the bookkeeper doing the bookkeeping for the Scouts, she wrote cheques from the scouts’ account to pay her own bills, and to support the family business

We’ve been approached by a bookkeeper servicing the northern suburbs of Perth - do we know of a book-keeper who would be interested in taking over an established client base of bookkeeping clients?

This is a unique opportunity for an established book keeper looking to expand your business. Personal circumstances have forced the current bookkeeper to move interstate, so that there’ll be clients suddenly in need of an experienced bookkeeper

If that sounds like you, then contact us TODAY

Happy New Financial Year – In Australia, the financial year starts on 1 July and ends 30 June

Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions?
We always encourage our clients from Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, Perth, Western Australia, to get a better handle on their paperwork – it save us time, and thus save our clients money in bookkeeping fees.

A very simple bookeeping habit to get into is simply this: everytime you pay an account, be it an invoice, or even making a cash purchase, you can do a little bit towards your bookkeeping.

Write the date you paid the invoice, the amount you have paid, and the source of funds used for the payment.

Straightaway you are asking:”Why do I have to write the amount that I have paid on the invoice, when there’s already an amount printed on the invoice? Well, we do not know whether you are paying the whole amount as stated on the invoice, or whether you are making a part payment.

Why write the date of payment, when the invoice clearly states the invoice due date – Again, how does your bookkeeper know when you actually paid the invoice, without spending a few minutes chasing up the payment

Why write the payment method? You may have paid by cash, or by cheque, or by credit card, or Internet Bank Transfer

So which bank account, credit card account or other source of funds did you pay the invoice from?

A simple extra minute spent adding this information on your bookwork could dramatically reduce your bookkeeping fees each year

There’ many other New Year’s Resolutions that you could be making for a successful twelve months in your business

Our team of bookkeepers will travel to your premises and work on your computer helping you keep your bookkeeping up to date.

Whether you are based in Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, Perth, Western Australia, we can service all your bookkeeping requirements

Our mobile bookkeepers can assist you with all aspects of your bookkeeping. You may be using MYOB or Quickbooks, or other accounting software.

Contact our team of Perth Inner Northern Suburbs bookkeepers to help you get your accounting in order

So you’ve bought Quickbooks or MYOB - What Next?
Our team of bookkeepers will show you how to install the accounting software package. Just let us know when would be a suitable time, and we can spend an hour or so getting everything functioning to suit your individual business

We can show your bookkeeping staff how to use the software. Many business owners raise invoices directly with MYOB or Quickbooks - We’ll show you how to customise the invoices and add your company logo, address details and any other information that you may need on your invoices

Software Installation Service
Our mobile bookkeeping team offer businesses in and around Inner Northern Suburbs of Perth a software installation service for businesses that have purchased an accounting package, such as MYOB, Quicken or others, and have no idea were to start.

Our installation service of computer accounting package includes

• Setting up all your Chart of Accounts to suit your business
• Entering Customers, Supplier & Employee information (or showing you how to)
• Enter Opening balances, including accountants, customer & supplier Opening Balances.
• Training you and / or your staff on inputting YOUR own business day to day data in plain English.

We recommend two hours for the first site visit. It may take longer if you require us to enter all your data in the first visit. We can then organise a second visit after 2-3 weeks, to check what you have done and give additional training if required.

Our Inner Northern Suburbs of Perth Bookkeepers save you time, worry and most importantly you will save MONEY!! For your business’ sake and your sanity Contact usNOW!

For a limited time are offering a FREE consultation.

To take advantage of this offer Contact Us TODAY!

Secretarial Service wants MYOB training

Had an email from a secretarial service in the northern suburbs of Perth. The lady wants some MYOB training, so that she can “do the bookwork” for one of her clients.

“What experience do you have as a bookkeeper?”, we ask. “None. I just thought I could help my client out”

Yes, lady, you sure can. Since the client is looking at outsourcing their bookkeeping needs, then doesn’t it make sense to turn to a professional bookkeeping team that can do the job properly. One wonders that if her client wanted a plumber, would she ring up a local plumber and ask for some training, because she “just wants to fix a leaking pipe” for one of her clients?

Well. Why should we care? She wants MYOB training. We can certainly provide that for her.

We care because our goal is to help clients by solving problems, not hinder clients by creating more problems.

“I’ll only be doing some data entry, nothing difficult!”, she told us. If it was that simple, everybody would be doing their own bookwork, and nobody would need to outsource their bookkeeping to professional mobile bookkeepers.

Her client is no doubt under the impression that the lady provides bookkeeping as part of her secretarial services – do they know the truth is that this lady is just wanting to “help out” her client and believe she can just start doing bookkeeping for her clients

How irresponsible is that?

We should be very happy and eager to train this lady, because we know she’ll stuff up her client’s bookwork, and then she’ll need us to come in and clean up the mess