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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

ATO Discontinue E-RecordThe Australian Taxation Office (ATO) announced that their E-Record system will not be available from July 2010.

So where does that leave small business owners?

Many of our bookkeeping clients around Stirling, Warwick, Gwelup or Balga, do not have accounting software, they simply hand us the paperwork and we prepare the bookkeeping on their behalf. Companies like MYOB and Quickbooks offer a basic software packing starting at around $50 and there are other options of free accounting software on the internet.

* You can browse through the range of Quickbooks and MYOB software HERE
* Need MYOB or Quickbooks Training? Contact Us HERE
* Want to know if Quickbooks or MYOB is the best for your business?
Contact Us HERE

As we all know, there ain’t such thing as a free lunch, so before you rush into a new accounting software program, have a chat with us and we’ll offer some economic solutions for your business.

Whilst the staff at Hardly Normal and similar electrical stores sell software, they know little about accounting or bookkeeping and will endeavour to sell you the most expensive package they can!

You can browse through the range of Quickbooks and MYOB software HERE or Contact Us HERE and we’ll help you determine which accounting software may be most suitable for you, to replace ATO E-Record.

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

Australians love an excuse for a public holiday.

It’s ripper when it falls on a Tuesday, because it’s a true blue fair dinkum reason to take Monday off, and make it a long weekend!!

Throw another prawn on the barbie, grab a slab of coldies, invite a few mates around, and have a good time

Thanks to Penrithcity.nsw.gov.au for the photo – Happy Australia Day

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

As MYOB professional partners, we’re authorised to supply MYOB accounting software. We can supply, install, and train our clients to do their bookkeeping using MYOB software whether your business is in Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, Perth, Western Australia.

A client contacted us yesterday asking us to supply them with MYOB Premier Enterprise for their franchise. It’s a “high-end” version of accounting plus – and comes with five single usr licences

This means that you can have five different users – in different locations, all access the one data file. It’s great for retail outlets – maybe a chain of shops linking back to head office.

The clients have a bookkeeper that’s going to come in and do their bookwork. What is surprising is the fact that the bookkeeper did not advise the client that they would need their own server – and possible an IT guy to come and help them get the system set-up.

Clients are looking for more than just a bookkeeper these days. Clients are looking for a bookkeeping service that will actually supply “customer service” – you know, the old fashioned type of service that was not just knowledge. It’s “service with a smile” service with “heart”.

If you want the “wham, bham, thank-you ma’am”, then there’s plenty of cowboy bookkeepers out there who’ll do the work for next to nothing, and more often give you no service, and heaps of headaches, a set of incorrect figures but at least you’ll have not paid much for your bookkeeping fees.