Don’t leave your bookkeeping until it’s too late! With end of financial year for 2009 – 2010 fast approaching, it’s a good idea to get your bookkeeping upto date.

By being ontop of your bookwork, you can have a chat with your accountant and make sure that you have the correct strategies in place to reduce your tax liabilities.

Failing to be prepared can be costly when you come to lodge your tax return after 30 june 2010

There’s many reasons why you should get your bookkeeping upto date before the end of the financial year on 30 June 2010.

Often clients are devastated when they discover how much tax they have to pay because they didn’t plan for the FYE (financial year end). Leaving it until after 30 June is too late.

We are not tax agents or accounts, but our team of mobile Mandurah bookkeepers can certainly help you get your paperwork upto date so that you can at least have three quarters of the 2009/2010 financial year upto date and ready to visit your accountant before the end of June 2010

It’s ripper when it falls on a Tuesday, because it’s a true blue fair dinkum reason to take Monday off, and make it a long weekend!!

Throw another prawn on the barbie, grab a slab of coldies, invite a few mates around, and have a good time

Thanks, girls, whoever you are. And thanks to the photographer, where ever you are – Happy Australia Day

If you qualify as an experienced freelance bookkeeper, and you need more clients in and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Australia, then we may be able to help you and your business

We’ve successfully helped a bookkeeper start basically from scratch. He wasn’t sure how much to charge, or how to speak to clients, and generally struggled to get the business happening. Now he’s almost reached full capacity, we’re getting enquiries from clients wanting experienced MYOB and QuickBooks bookkeepers

We offer bookkeepers a program whereby we will find them bookkeeping clients for their bookkeeping business.

Right now we are looking for Quickbooks and MYOB bookeepers in and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Australia, so if you are starting out, or need more bookkeping clients and feel that you have sufficient experience as a freelance bookkeeper*, then contact us today.

We talk about finding bookkeeping clients, and the sort of *experience that you need to start your own bookkeeping business in our EBook How To Find Bookkeeping Clients

With the Christmas holiday period over for many small businesses, it’s time to get all your paperwork together and get it to your bookkeeper or outsourced bookkeeping service- to report on the 2nd quarter (1 September to 31 December 2009) to get your BAS lodged on time.

Maybe the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) does have a heart, after all. Rather than asking for lodgements on 28 January, they automatically give everyone an extension to the BAS lodgements to 28 February. This is, of course, a Sunday. However, the next business day is not Monday, since it’s a public holiday in Western Australia. Thus the Q2 BAS is due on 2 March 2010

However, don’t be fooled by their grace, because there is NO WAY that they’ll consider granting an extension after that date. So you need to ensure that you have your Business Activity Statement lodged by 2 March 2010

If you are struggling with your bookkeeping and need help, if you do not have a bookkeeper, or are looking to outsource to a mobile bookkeeping service, then contact us now

You may use MYOB or Quickbooks accounting software – or even some other system for your bookwork. We can assist you with any challenges, or even just relieve you of the burden of the book-keeping

Our bookkeeping Service has clients in and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Australia Contact us here for details

Did the bookkeeper notice a shortfall?

One wonders how the bookkeeper or the company accountants didn’t notice the shortfall. As a small business owner, it’s important to keep a regular check of the figures, as well as keep an eye on your bookkeeper.

A couple of years ago we were approached by the owner of a retail store, and soon discovered that one of her staff had been helping themselves to the daily takings.

How long this had been going on for was difficult to determine – considering the staff member was a “trusted friend”

This amazing fact uncovered by WBC (one of the big four Australian Banks) was revealed by one of their bank tellers whilst we were doing some banking on behalf of one of our Mandurah bookkeeping clients

One wonders how much money was spent by their marketing department to learn that customers actually want to be treated like real people by, wait for it, real people.

Our clients know that their book-keeper is only a phone call or an email away.

Maybe we are the only small business owners in and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, and Coodanup that object to calling large companies and have a computerised voice telling them to press this number for that service, or that number for another option

You may be unfortunate enough to find “Lara” answering your enquiry when you contact a certain mobile phone company. Lara seems not only to have a hearing problem, but also lacks any understanding even when you tell “her” that you just want to pay your phone bill

Our bookkeeping company, like many small business owners in and around Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs fully appreciate that the best way to win customers and to keep customers is with Real Customer Service. That means that the customer should be treated as a special person who has individual needs, and feelings.

Our Mandurah bookeeping service has been looking after loyal clients for many years. Those clients understand the benefits of outsourcing their book keeping. Those clients know that their book-keeper is only a phone call or an email away.

Our Mandurah, Coodanup, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs bookkeeping clients understand that sometimes things don’t always go to plan, and they may have an emergency situation and need to call on us, as their bookkeepers, to get them some reports in a hurry, or find a missing invoice, or even track down the warranty certificate for some of their office equipment.

Congratulations go to the “think tank” and marketing department of WBC!! They’ve finally realised that individual people make up their client base. That small business owners like to be treated with courtesy and respect by large money-hungry corporations who have seen their shareholders and their profits being more important than their customers

Maybe, just maybe, it’s just a marketing wheeze that WBC are only paying lip service to. Here’s an open invitation to the GM of WBC to talk to us about what customer service is really all about

Is “Off-site bookkeeping” the same as “Mobile Bookeeping”?

Whether you use MYOB / Quickbooks, or you need Software Training for your small business in and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Australia, we are here to help. Contact our Mandurah team of mobile book-keepers now

When looking for bookkeeping services in Mandurah, you may decide to do an internet search for “Mandurah bookkeeping”

Others may look for “book keeping services in Mandurah”, or even “Bookkeeper Mandurah” as well as “Book-keeping” or “book-keeper”

Then there’s those people that are never quite sure if there’s only one “k” in bookeeping, or would you search for “bookeeper”?

You could do a search for “book keeper” in Mandurah

Either way, you’ve come to the right website, because our team of mobile bookkeepers will either come to your premises and work on-site at your offices / business that may be located in Mandurah or surrounding suburbs, or we can collect all the documentation and take it away to work at our premises. This is often referred to as “off-site” bookkeeping

Is “Off-site” bookkeeping the same as “Mobile Bookeeping”?
There are a number of bookeeping services that will only work at their premises. These bookkeepers tend to be inflexible and demand that their clients drop ff the paperwork at the bookkeeper’s premises

That may not always be convenient for a small business owner, and that’s why so many businesses in and around Mandurah choose our mobile travelling bookkeeping services, because our Mandurah bookkeepers will find the solution that works best for you and your business

Whether you use MYOB / Quickbooks, or you need Software Training for your small business in and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Australia, we are here to help. Contact our Mandurah team of mobile book-keepers now

For many small business owners and especially for their bookkeepers in and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, and Meadow Springs, July is always a busy time of year.

With end of financial year reporting, together with reporting of the 01 April to 30 June quarter, businesses that are behind in their paperwork can struggle under extra pressure that they really do not need

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

The phone’s been ringing as desperate business owners in a panic wanting 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 us 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

Apparently the Australian Taxation Office thinks so – but that could be because it’s a government organisation that really does not have to worry about the bottom line

Where is the sense (cents) in making a five cent payment?

One of our bookkeeping clients received a communication from the ATO advising that they owe $0.05

Let’s just think about this simple transaction in terms of human and energy resources:
There’s the cost the ATO $0.55 for the postage. That’s before you take into account the cost of printing the letter, the cost of the paper and the envelope, and the cost of paying someone to handle the letter.

Our bookkeeping client was going to make a phone call, but that would cost 500% more than the value of the enquiry

Whilst they do not have a problem paying the 5 cents, it’s quite obvious why ordinary hard-working Australians are having to pay so much tax overall.

Apparently there is a great deal of wastage of resources at the ATO – typical of the Public Service that doesn’t have to worry about keeping costs down

So, our bookkeeping client was going to do internet banking and make a BPAY transfer, to find out that the ATO does not accept such small amount of payment for a BPAY transfer

So how does our bookkeeping client pay the 5 cents that the ATO is asking for?
Are they expected to go to the Post Office and make a payment over the counter?

Again, what is the cost of that simple exercise?
The Government is concerned about carbon pollution, yet the ATO wants our bookkeeping client to jump in their gas guzzling motor vehicle to drive to the shopping centre, find a car park, then walk to the Post Office, stand in a queue, take up the time of a Post Office Staff member, to process a 5 cent payment

Can anyone from the Australian Taxation Office or the Federal Treasury please tell us, where is the sense (no pun in tended) in making this five cent payment?