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Ahhh New Financial Year, how you excite me!
This is my first Financial Year roll over as a Bookkeeper - I never thought it could be so exhilarating. I have learnt so much in the last 6 months and I’m really looking forward to learning even more!
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Category: The Business of Bookkeeping
Tag: Small-business
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BAS Due Date (Part II) - Not the end of the World
If you read our last blog entry you should be feeling more confident about having enough cash on hand for your next BAS due date. But what if you are going through a cash flow crisis and don’t have enough cash set aside this time?
Believe it or not - your biggest ally could come from an unexpected quarter - the Australian Taxation Office. The ATO knows it is in everyones best interest to support small businesses through tough times. Here are some examples of valuable support the ATO can provide you so as to keep small businesses up and running (and therefore keep the Australian economy humming!).
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Categories: A Word to the Wise, The Business of Bookkeeping
Tags: ATO, BAS, GST, Small-business
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Take a Lesson in Understanding Financial Reports
As trite as this may sound – take a moment to ask yourself a question: Why do you have a bookkeeper?
The fact is that a major proportion of small business owners have a bookkeeper to help produce the quarterly or monthly GST and tax returns, and don’t really expect – dare I say, dream of – much more beyond this.
Your bookkeeper is in an excellent position to take you as many steps beyond basic compliance as you wish to take. Once transactions have been processed, the holy grail of the bookkeeping world becomes attainable – the financial reports… And if this doesn’t excite you – it should.
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Categories: A Word to the Wise, The Business of Bookkeeping
Tags: Bookkeeping, Financial-reports, Small-business
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Art Therapy Anyone?
On this mornings news I heard a review about Art Therapy for emotional wellbeing. This interested me as one of our clients this week has been setting up ‘Creative Workshops for Health’, a concept we were very enthusiastic about.
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Category: A Word to the Wise
Tags: Case-study, Small-business
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Greetings!
‘The business of bookkeeping and more…’ aims to be a knowledge database for small businesses and the people who run them. Being a small business ourselves - and being passionate about making a success of ours - we know first hand what you might be going through on your path to entrepreneurial triumph!
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Categories: A Word to the Wise, The Business of Bookkeeping, Mini MBA, Really Useful Software Training Tips
Tags: Bookkeeping, MBA, MYOB, Quickbooks, Small-business