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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

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.

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

Those that control the purse strings have the power.

In any society, money talks. So why should it be any different in your business? Many small business owners in the Northern Suburbs of Perth are so busy being focused on the every day stuff in their business, that they look at the bookwork as being a chore rather than a fundamental part of the business. Whatever accounting software package you use, be it MYOB or Quickbooks, you should be able to access financial reports showing your business position in seconds.

Have a look at your daily operations, and ask yourself this one question:

Who is in control of your business? Are you, the business owner in control? or is it really you clients that are dictating your daily tasks?

Do you have a handle on your financial position each day or week or each month or quarter? Is your bookkeeping upto date? Can you ask your bookkeeper for the relevant MYOB or Quickbooks reports each day or each week, so that you can make informed decisions regarding your business?

Is the tail wagging the dog, or is the dog wagging the tail?

Have a serious look at the operations of your business. Is it your clients that are dictating when you can take time off? Or do you have that choice? Is it your clents who are deciding when you should be paid, or are you in control of your business cash flow?

Contact our bookkeeping team and let’s have a chat about how we can help you manage your cash flow and get a handle on your business. We can show you how to maximise the potential ow whatever accounting software package you use, be it MYOB or Quickbooks or any other package

When a financial planner contacts a bookkeeping service because they are eighteen months behind in the paperwork, there’s a touch of irony.

It’s like the sparkie who still hasn’t wired up some extra powerpoints in his house though his wife’s been nagging him for three months

Or the accountant who has not lodged their own tax return for a couple of years

Business owners can get so caught up in the busy-ness of every day activities that they can never seem to find time to work on their business.

Even financial planners need the help of freelance bookkeepers to help them with the genera bookkeeping duties such as entering customer and supplier invoices, entering receipts, and calculating fuel expenses etc

Unless you’re passionate about bookeeping, you’ll always find excuses for putting it off.

As a bookkeeping service covering Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, Perth, we are often called up to tidy up the mess that has accumulated over the past few months. Contact us for details

Even with purchasing an accounting software package such as MYOB or Quickbooks, the business owner is still faced with the task of having to find a few spare hours a week or a month to enter all the book-keeping data.

Unless you have a passion for doing the bookeeping yourself, you’ll always find excuses for putting it off. After all, why should you make bookkeeping a priority of your Stirling, Warwick, Gwelup or Balga business?

A widget-maker may know all about widgets, the different sizes and colours, the various strengths and applications for widgets, and have many others skills and knowledge involved in widget making.

So why do you want to spend time away from widgets to have to learn how to use an accounting software program? Then you’ve got to learn where to allocate your sales invoices. Maybe you need to make up a template with your company logo to issue invoices from MYOB or Quickbooks to send to your customers.

Then you have to prepare any reports that are needed by your accountant to lodge your tax return. And what if you make a mistake when entering the data. If you are not experienced in bookkeeping, or have not used a book-keeper, then you could find that you either produce a set of accounts that are not a true reflection of your business, or you find that the bookkeeping figures do not balance.

Meanwhile, you’ve got yourself totally stressed out, and discovered that you’ve spent so much time on trying to be the bookkeeper in your business, that you’ve lost a couple of very valuable sales orders because you haven’t had time to make any widgets.

Your financial planner would probably suggest to you that you need to spend time and effort in your business making the money. Just as you’ve turned to a financial planner for guidance in your financial future, it makes sense to turn to a professional bookkeeping service that covers Robina, Burleigh, Varsity Lakes and Mudgeeraba to look after your bookwork

By outsourcing a bookkeeper, do not feel that you will lose control of your finances. Indeed, in many cases the result is quite the opposite. By having your financials kept upto date by your bookkeeper, you can get regular reports, do month by month comparisons, and see if your business is heading north or south

Many small business owners will say, “Yes, but I leave all that to my accountant!” Well, that’s all well and good, but is your accountant basing decisions on current financial data, or is he looking at your bookkeeping figures from last year?

If your paperwork is in disarray, don’t panic!

Contact our bookkeeping service from Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, Perth, and we can come in and tidy up the mess that has accumulated over the past few months.

Contact us for details

It’s a question that we are often asked. “Should I get MYOB or would I be better to purchase Quickbooks?”

You could be sitting on the mountain at Bathurst listening to a Ford fan and a Holden fan having a debate about which car is better.

It seems you either love ‘em or you hate ‘em. The debate will continue forever

As a small business owner in and around Perth’s inner northern suburbs of Balcatta, Balga, Carine, Gwelup, Hamersley, Karrinyup, Nollamara, Stirling, or Westminster, there’s advantages to MYOB as an accounting package; there’s functions that Quickbooks perform in a simpler matter.

Many small business owners in Perth’s northern suburbs hate doing their own bookkeeping

Contact our Perth bookkeeping service and let us show you how little it will cost to get your bookkeeping under control.

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A new client contacted us out of desperation. Struggling to prepare all the documentation for the Business Activity Statement, she could not get the figures to balance.

We suggested she email us the MYOB data file, so that we could get a clearer understanding of where she was at with her bookwork. Contact us for details

She then admitted that there were two different data files being used in the office for the bookkeeping!

Here lies the problem: If you are working on the bookkeeping in one MYOB data file, and someone else is working on the bookkeeping in another data file for the same company at the same time, errors will arise - because MYOB is not designed to cater for that.

So we asked her to send us the other MYOB data file , and then we had to work out which file was the most current.

Often when clients around Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, Perth ask us to help them with their BAS (Business Activity Statements) the problem is not with the BAS. The problem lies with somewhere within the bookkeeping process during the BAS preparation. You know the saying GIGO - garbage-in, garbage-out! The actual completion of the BAS form is the easy part.

After all, if the figures do not balance, you can simply make a general journal entry to fix it all up - right? WRONG Contact us for details

PS The ATO advises that:” if you make monthly payments, the PAYG is due on 21 January 2009, while most small businesses that report quarterly, this instalment is due on 28 February 2009
Note that as the date falls on a long weekend in some states, the lodgement and payment deadline has been extended to 3 March 2009 Australia Wide)