by Steve Slisar | Monday, June 18, 2018 | Career Academy Program, Career Training and Upskilling, News, Small Business
When does *free* accounting software really become more expensive? The best bookkeepers are forever tasked with the challenge of staying abreast of cloud accounting and bookkeeping technologies and software packages. By moving accounting software into the cloud,...
by Steve Slisar | Thursday, June 14, 2018 | Career Academy Program, National Bookkeeping, News
How a bookkeeping internship can lead to a great bookkeeping job Before a BAS or tax agent can register with the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) to be allowed to provider services to clients for a fee, they must have worked for between 1,000 and 1,400 hours supervised...
by Steve Slisar | Thursday, May 31, 2018 | National Bookkeeping, News
Why bookkeepers need to be emotionally intelligent Throughout the modern era, technological innovations have been the key drivers of economic growth. The most important are what economists call general purpose technologies — the steam engine, electricity, the internal...
by Steve Slisar | Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | National Bookkeeping, News, training courses
Going into business for yourself can be a great move for the motivated It takes a change in attitude for contract bookkeepers to stand out in the gig economy. As an independent contractor, you need to take charge and work with authority. This is different from...
by Steve Slisar | Tuesday, May 8, 2018 | 07 Marketing Action Plan, 08 Undertake Marketing Activities, Business Tools, Google, Marketing Training Courses Online, News, small business marketing, training courses
How to get your business really happening online If you’re going to execute a digital marketing campaign correctly, you first need to create a project plan. But this is much like most things with any degree of complexity. Creating a project plan is basically...
by Steve Slisar | Tuesday, May 1, 2018 | National Bookkeeping, News
BAS agents across the world In Australia, the types of services you’re allowed to provide to clients for a fee depends on the level and type of training you’ve had. BAS agents, for example, are only allows to prepare and lodge activity statements for businesses; a tax...
by Steve Slisar | Friday, April 27, 2018 | National Bookkeeping, News
Factoring in VAT and GST for overseas customers We’ve previously talked about valued-added tax (VAT), the consumption tax charged by most countries around the world, including Australia, although ours is called GST. In that post, we talked about a couple of...
by Steve Slisar | Monday, April 23, 2018 | Finance Training Courses Online, National Bookkeeping, News, Small Business
Understanding VAT and GST VAT simply means a value added tax. In Australia, the goods and services tax (GST) is a VAT of 10% on most goods and services sales. Further, VAT tax is a consumption tax that’s collected incrementally, based on the increase, or “value...
by Steve Slisar | Monday, April 9, 2018 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Startup Help with starting a new business, National Bookkeeping, News, Small Business
Are you aware of your reporting requirements for business? In a previous post, we talked about the government initiative called Standard Business Reporting (SBR), and which cloud accounting systems are SBR-enabled. We also touched on how SBR speeds up the reporting...
by Steve Slisar | Tuesday, March 20, 2018 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, News
Is your mortgage covered? What would you do if you couldn’t do the job you’ve trained for anymore. You may be able to work, but possibly not the work you originally intended. If you are a bookkeeper or BAS Agent you might not be able to travel to clients sites,...
