Mandurah Bookkeepers: End of Financial Year 2009 / 2010

Our team of Mandurah bookkeepers are normally flooded with calls from business owners in the last quarter of the financial year, as we approrach June 30.

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

Help with MYOB For BAS

If doing the BAS with MYOB feels like a pain in the Ass, then get a quick fix of bookkeeping help from one of our Mandurah bookeepers

We’re a mobile book-keeping service helping small busineses around Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Australia with their Business Activity Statements

Your MYOB Bookkeeping and BAS problems can be over with one quick phone call – just as many small business owners in and Mandurah, Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Australia, have discovered.

If the lodgement of your Business Activity Statement BAS is becoming a pain in the Ass, then call us today

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Mandurah Bookkeeping: Happy Australia Day

Mandurah Bookkeeping: Happy Australia DayAustralians love an excuse for a public holiday.

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

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Mandurah Bookkeepers: Looking For Clients?

Do you have a bookkeeping business around in and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Australia?

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

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Mandurah bookeeping: BAS Due 2 March 2010

Business Activity Statements  BAS are due on 2 march 2010 for businesses in   and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Western AustraliaBusiness Activity Statements BAS are due on 2 march 2010 for businesses that report their GST obligations quarterly

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

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How Did Office Manager Steal $400k from Employer?

The office manager of a Convenience Store in Scotsdale, Arizona, USA has been accused of stealing approximately $416,553 over the last two years

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”

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BAS Due 28 October 2009

Is your paperwork in order, have you got your bookkeeping up to date ready for the BAS due on 28 October? If you are a small business owner in and around Mandurah, we encourage you to focus on what you do best, and we’ll do the rest

With less than three weeks away before the first quarter Business Activity Statements [BAS] are due for lodgement, there’s not much time to get your bookwork organised

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

For small businesses in and around Mandurah, we have a mobile book keeping service that can come to your office and do the work on-site, or we can take the paperwork away with us and complete your bookkeeping work in our offices

Either way, it’s not a good idea to leave your bookkeeping until the last minute and risk a fine from the ATO for a late lodgement Call us today on 0415 453 536 for more information

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ATO TAX Refund Scam Email

ATO-tax-refund-scam-emailWe received an email, apparently from the ATO, advising us that we had a Tax Refund due.

The amount was for AUD$210.75. Nothing strange about that, except for the spelling and the grammar.

They ask you to click a link that takes you to a website [ wv.us ] not anything to do with [ ato.gov.au ]

DON’T CLICK ON THE LINK – who knows what may happen – it could result in a little piece of software that invades your computer and extracts your usernames and pass words

It’s probably going to ask you for all your credit card details, so that the fraudsters in question can then go on a spending spree in London!

Not since Kevin Rudd organised for us to have a cheques sent out from the ATO have we had a tax refund.

And, thank you Mr Rudd, because the cheques arrived a couple of days after the ATO sent us a request for us to pay more tax – so much for the “Stimulus Package” – a waste of money, a publicity stunt – and a wonderful inheritance for the yournger generation of this fine nation.

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Supplying MYOB Software in Mandurah

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.

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.

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Mandurah Bookkeeping: Client Satisfaction

Mandurah Bookkeeping: Client SatisfactionAs bookkeepers in and around Mandurah, Dudley Park, Coodanup, Greenfields, Erskine, Pinjarra and Meadow Springs, Western Australia it seems that we’ve known something that WBC has only just discovered: Clients actually respect and demand REAL customer service.

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.

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