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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.

Whether you use MYOB / Quickbooks, or you need Software Training for your small business in and around Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, Perth, Western Australia, we are here to help. Contact our Stirling team of mobile book-keepers now Read more… »

Business Activity Statements (BAS), for business owners reporting quarterly, are due on 28 July 2009.

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

With end of financial year reporting, together with reporting of the 01 April to 30 June quarter BAS due 28 July, businesses that are behind in their paperwork can struggle under extra pressure that they really do not need - contact our Perth bookkeeping service today for help with your BAS

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.

Some small business owners use their GST money as cash-flow for their business, forgetting that these GST funds are monies collected by the business on behalf of the federal government - then they seem shocked that they have no cash to pay what’s owing on their BAS lodgement

The phone’s been ringing as desperate business owners in a panic wanting our Perth bookkeeping service to 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 our Perth bookkeeping service 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 company 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 - contact our Perth bookkeeping service today for help with your BAS

Small business should support small-to-medium enterprise (SME), a concept that the Australian Federal Government seems to fail to comprehend.

They are telling everyone how the Rudd Government is helping small businesses with the Small Business and General Business Tax Break.

The package is such that small businesses can claim a bonus 50 per cent tax deduction for eligible assets costing more than $1,000 acquired from 13 December 2008 until 31 December 2009, and installed ready for use by 31 December 2010.

To benefit from this Tax Break a small business must have a turnover of less than $2.0 million a year.

Forget the tax break, shop at your locally owned store

This may look good on paper, but unless you actually need to make any investment in capital purchases such as motor vehicles or equipment, how does it actually help small business?

It certainly helps large businesses - the suppliers of motor vehicles, national stationary / office equipment suppliers, hardly normal electical chain stores and the like, but how does it help you, the small business owner in Stirling or Warwick?

Speaking to an accountant of one of our bookkeeping clients recently, he said that whilst the incentive looks very rosy, you should actually look at the costs involved in the purchase of a new vehicle.

Taking all things into consideration for this particular client, the client was going to be worse off purchasing a new vehicle compared to finding a cheaper second-hand vehicle

Many small business owners are understandably looking to save money wherever they can, believing that’s the only way that they can increase their income. Yet at the sametime, they also want to increase their turnover by attracting more customers or upselling existing customers.

Why do small business owners have a problem with supporting other small-to-medium enterprises?

Many of our bookkeeping clients take their shopper dockets from the major supermarkets, to get discount fuel, rather than paying a few cents more (perhaps) for fuel from independent service station operators.

The same clients buy all their fruit and vegetables, meat and other groceries from the large supermarket chains instead of supporting small independent green-grocers or butchers

Why do small-to-medium enterprises complain that your potential customers are going to the large companies or multi-nationals instead of shopping from you? Maybe we should stop pointing the finger at other people, and start asking ourselves, why do small businesses have a problem trading with other small businesses?

Do large companies really care about the local Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, business owner? Not when the head office is in Sydney, Melbourne or even overseas

The positive effect on the local economy would be far wider reaching than all of those small business owners that continue to support large companies who are only interested in making huge profits for their shareholders (many of whom are large multi-nationals themselves).

Go shopping at your local independantly owned business, take business away from large corporations and bring back competition to the market place - you’ll be helping the local econmy whch will in-turn help your SME

July and August are busy months for many registered tax agents around Perth’s northern suburbs – as individuals hurry to lodge their income tax returns in the hope that they’ve been paying too much PAYG tax and hope to get a tax refund.

This time of year brings many enquiries for our bookkeeping service. The main questions are, for a basic Tax Return: “How Long, and How Much Fees?”

Stroll through any large shopping centre Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, Perth, Western Australia, and you’ll see that centre management have rented out the floor space in the middle of the mall to tax agents who’ve set themselves up like a fast-food outfit.

Wham, Bham, thank you, ma’am, and it’s all over!

Get ‘em in, sit ‘em down, fill in a form, and click a button …. Gone!!

We get quite a few enquiries from individuals, on a salary, with little expenses that they can claim, so their tax return is very straight forward. We are not registered Tax Agents and cannot advise / lodge tax returns on their behalf, though we can help with getting your documentation preparedcontact us

Normally if you go to a shopping centre around Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs, you’ll most likely find a registered tax agent - they’ll most likely set up a table at this time of year, and be sitting with their laptop waiting for the next customer to come along - costs about $100 and takes about 20 minutes, with about 3 or 4 weeks to get answer from ATO

Some of these tax agents only operate for a few months of the year, specifically to help individuals with their tax returns.

Small business owners may find that the service offered by these quick-fix-tax-return booths are not set up to handle your needs, and that’s where a mobile bookkeeping service such as ours can be of great benefit to you

As bookkeepers, we can help with any bookkeeping requirements you may have, so please feel free to contact us to discuss your bookkeeping setup

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!

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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

Never deal with a company that has no (obvious) customer support.

An increasing trend is for large companies and groups of companies to hide behind 1800 numbers and post office boxes.

Their websites only have contact forms with no visible email addresses. The staff only has Christian names, never any surnames. There’s never any manager available to speak to, and the staff certainly do not have a direct phone number to contact a manager

If the management of a company are so hard to track down, then what is that company hiding?

There’s an Australian company that’s taken up yodelling with a team of telemarketers. They phone you up, saying that they are from Google, and that they’ll put your business on the front page of Google Read more… »