by Steve Slisar | Saturday, February 2, 2019 | 15 Hiring Staff, Increasing Performance and Retaining Good People, Accounting Jobs, Career Academy, Career Training and Upskilling, Gumtree Jobs, Indeed, Job Boards, MYOB, Seek & Seek Learning, SpotED & SpotJobs, training courses, Xero online training course
Hiring staff is something you’ll do as a business owner or manager at some stage in operating the business. In medium sized businesses the hiring and firing is performed by a dedicated HR Manager or Human Resources staff members and the process is exhausting and...
by Steve Slisar | Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | Career Academy, Internships, News
There are Bookkeepers In Need of Your Expertise! We’ve looked before at whether you should use free accounting software — and what the “free” in free accounting software really means. Indeed, we talked about two 100 percent, forever free cloud...
by Steve Slisar | Thursday, August 2, 2018 | Business Startup Help with starting a new business, Career Academy, Career Training and Upskilling, News, Small Business
Upwork, Freelancer and Airtasker: what kind of freelancer will you find on an online marketplace? Hiring a freelancer isn’t particularly easy. In fact, depending on the type of freelancer you’re looking for, it’s often more difficult than hiring a permanent employee....
by Steve Slisar | Monday, June 18, 2018 | Career Academy, 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, 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 | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 | 11 Selling your products or services, Business Startup Help with starting a new business, Career Academy, Career Training and Upskilling, News, Small Business, small business marketing
The perks of working as a bookkeeper for free Working for free is normally not advisable. This is because sometimes it indicates that you don’t value your services, that you’re overpriced, or that you’re inexperienced. (And if you were a permanent employee on a...
by Steve Slisar | Monday, February 12, 2018 | Business Startup Help with starting a new business, Career Academy, News, Small Business
Keeping you on track when starting your own business People talk a lot about setting goals; the theory being that by writing down what you want to achieve, you’ll actually make yourself stick to it. I don’t know if it works quite like that, but I do believe setting...
by Steve Slisar | Monday, January 29, 2018 | Career Academy, Career Training and Upskilling, News
THERE’S a conversation taking place right now between lawmakers and educators as to what exactly we should be teaching our kids. Jobs that exist today might not in a decade’s time — certainly not in two decades — and so schools and learning facilities have...
