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Do you need our Perth bookkeeping team to help you with the September BAS that’s due 28 October 2011?
If your business is located in the northern suburbs of Perth then contact our Perth bookkeeping team today, as our diary is filling up over the next few weeks approaching the BAS lodgement deadline.
Maybe it’s the first time you’ve had to complete a Business Activity Statement for your new Perth business.
Here’s a surprise, lodging the BAS is the easy part Having the correct figures is where the fun starts.
If you want to know how to fill in a Business Activity Statement BAS – then contact us today for help.
Perth business owners can be caught by putting the wrong figures in the boxes and then paying the Australian Taxation Office too much – or even too little – tax at the end of the quarter.
How do you know if you’re paying too much tax?
Simple answer is that we ALL feel we are paying too much tax to the ATO. As Perth bookkeepers, we have certain checking procedures that we run to ensure your figures are correct before you lodge your BAS.
Would you rather pay us a few extra dollars, or pay the tax office TOO MANY extra dollars because you’ve put the wrong figures in your September quarter BAS form?
Contact our Perth bookkeeping team for help with the September BAS due 28 October 2011
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A desperate phone call from a business owner in Osborne Park: “Help, We need a bookkeeper yesterday!”
There’s nothing like being given plenty of notice to organise a meeting with a new bookkeeping client.
There’s not many bookkeepers around Osborne Park who are justsitting around waiting for the phone to ring.
If you find a bookkeeper who is in such a position, then perhaps you should be wondering why they are not busy working on bookkeeeping for other clients.
Fortunately we have a good working relationship with our bookkeeping clients in and around Osborne Park. When a new client is in a desperate need for help, we are able to juggle a few appointments around with our regular clients and help out small business owners around Osborne Park with bookkeeping.
Whether you use Quickbooks or MYOB accounting software, or any other package for the bookkeeping in your Perth northern suburbs business, contact us today for help, but please try and give us a little more than ten hours notice!
Had a call from a physio in Mt Hawthorn that needs help with their bookkeeping. They’ve asked us to come in and train their office girls to use Quickbooks properly. If you also need help contact us NOW
We’ll look through their data files and run various reports to check the how the chart of accounts is set up, have a look through their allocations, and see if the reports reflect their GST figures on their BAS forms.
We’ve saved some business owners large amounts of money by ensuring that their bookwork is running smoothly.
Your Mount Hawthorn business may need a health check, so give us a call and we can organise to review your Quickbooks or MYOB data files and ensure that you’re not paying the ATO more than you need to.
Maybe you need some help withyour tax as well, so we can get our friendly tax agent / accountants to help you out in that regard too
Our Perth bookkeepers often receive calls from home based business owners wanting help in getting their office set up with a bookkeeping system.
For many people, the office may be the spare bedroom, or the garage. You might purchase some new furniture such as a desk, chair, and some office equipment such as computer, printer etc.
It’s a good idea to keep all receipts for your purchases, because while you’re getting started you may not be sure what is classed as a legitimate expense.
As well as having a business plan, it’s a good idea to have a chat with your accountant, since you may be able to claim the payments as a tax deduction if you decide to rent or lease equipment rather than buy.
The way you set up your business in your home may affect your tax deductions. See the ATO information on home-based work and deductions .
Our Perth bookkeeping service would suggest that you set up a separate bank accounts for your business and personal expenses. You’ll find that the bookkeeping for your Perth business is simplified by doing this.
Other things to consider include your insurances, licences etc . You may need to check for any local council by-laws regarding your home-based business.
For help with your bookkeeping, or even some ideas how help with your home-based business, contact our Perth bookkeepers today
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The City of Joondalup is quite active in its support of local businesses, while promoting Joondalup as an attractive investment destination.
There’s around 13,000 registered businesses ranging from health, education, tourism, retail, to the finance and professional service sectors.
The City of Joondalup conducts regular Business Forums, and on 26 September 2011 they are holding a “Vision for Joondalup” forum. It’s a free event being held at Joondalup Resort and Country Club between 8.30am and 2.00pm (luncheon included).
Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch!
Do you ever feel like you’re wasting money on bookkeeping for your Perth business?
It seems that some clients can’t wait to throw their money on bookkeeping fees.
There’s nothing wrong with making a decision to outsource the bookkeeping to professional bookkeepers in an effort to save on accounting fees. What seems crazy is when we give them options to further increase savings by implementing some simple procedures that we ask them to put in place.
If we were mind-readers, we’d probably no longer be bookkeeping, yet those clients decide that we must know everything that goes on in their small business, and stop the channels of communication.
Your bookkeeper can only work withthe information that is supplied, they should not be having to guess how a payment was made, or hunt around to see which account was used for what transaction.
It makes sense that your bookkeeper is only as good as the information you give them. If you misplace or lose bank statements, invoices, receipts etc, then your bookkeeper will have to spend time (=money) chasing them or wait for you to locate them before their tasks can be completed
These delays equate to time lost and money wasted.
Similarly, if you are slow to get back to your bookkeeoer when quiries are raised, then that will slow down the work flow, and your bookkeeper may fill the schedule that was allocated to your work, with another client.
Again, delays that you cause through not keeping an eye on your bookkeeping can cost money.
Other examples are outlined in our free report that you can download HERE
The worst case scenario maybe that your bookkeeper is stealing and it may be months or even years before you notice.
By which time it could be too late – as in the case of the large electrical retailer, where the bookkeeper found it e-e-easy to steal $20million unnoticed.
By changing a few simple habits you can truly make the most of your bookkeeper. We service local businesses in and around Balcatta, Stirling, Gwelup, Osborne Park, Warwick, generally using MYOB and QuickBooks.
It’s all very well trying to do your own bookkeeping, as long as you realise that incorrect bookeeping can destroy your business.
Whether you’re located in Bayswater, Balcatta, Joondalup or Wanneroo, there’s business owners that believe you can save money by doing your own bookkeeping, or having inexperienced staff doing it for you, without understanding the damage can have on your Perth business
Most weeks we’re confronted by a set of books that have been incorrectly completed. There’s some absolute crackers of mistakes that can have devastating effects on cashflow.
What about the e-e-e-ezy electrical retailer (recently swallowed up by Hardly Normal), that collapsed after the bookkeeper helped herself to around $20million !! It seems extraordinary to think that a company wouldn’t notice that sort of money missing.
What were the financial controllers and accountants doing not to miss that kind of money?
On a smaller scale, bad bookkeeping can be like dining at a one of Perth’s finest restaurants, having a wonderful meal and waking up the next day with food poisoning. It’s not until the damage is done, that you discover the food poisoning.
So many times we come across businesses that have been doing their own bookwork, or saving money by using “cheap” or inexperienced bookkeepers that may be family friends or relatives wanting to “do the right thing”. It’s not until we check their bookkeeping that we find some horrendous (but quite simple) errors that have occurred that can totally affect the cash flow of a small busines
When’s the last time you’ve had health check in the bookkeeping of your business? Contact us NOW for details
As professional bookkeepers in Perth, we often called to the rescue to combat piles of paperwork
Are you fed up of the constant battle with your paper work, and chasing time to do get your bookkeeping upto date ?
For your business’ sake and your sanity Contact Us NOW!
There’s many business owners just like you that do not have enough hours in the day or week and are already too busy working in the business, with no time left to work ON the business.
That’s why savvy business operators outsource their bookkeeping to our team of professional bookkeepers who love doing the bookwork, and can get your paperwork upto date in a shorter time.
Maybe you, a relative, or a friend are trying to help you with your
bookkeeping, because you’re trying to save money of accounting fees.
Have you considered the true cost to your business?
There’s the time cost – do you have the right person to do the bookkeeping
There’s the cost of inaccuracies due to lack of experience / incorrect date entry
There’s the emotional / health cost brought on by stress of getting behind in your reporting
Focus on What You Do Best – Let Us do the Rest
Does this sound like you?
Up late the night before the BAS
is due?
You know that doing the Bookkeeping
is not the best use of your time
Just like so many business owners you HATE Bookkeeping
You’re not getting the right reports to make financial decisions to grow your business
You’ve been meaning to get on top of your paperwork, but it just hasn’t happened
You’ve been “burying your head in the sand” for too long , and now is the time to get your bookkeeping in order
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is chasing you for Business Activity Statements (B.A.S.) / End of Year Reports
For your business’ sake and your sanity Contact Us NOW!
Contact Us and let us show you how our professional bookkeepers providing bookkeeping services in and around Stirling to Warwick, Gwelup to Balga, Inner Northern Suburbs will get your bookkeeping under control.
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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… »
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