Category — Small Business

Here’s some New Year’s resolutions that we’ve compiled for our Melbourne Bookkeeping clients.

Understanding that most resolutions are broken before the first week of the New Year is over, we listed three bookkeeping resolutions small businesses can make and keep in 2011. [Read more →]

Our Melbourne bookkeeping service has seen the relative costs of friends and family doing the bookkeeping at “Mates Rates”

Regardless of what the media or the Federal Government tells us, times are getting tougher for small business owners all around Australia. It’s understandable that an obvious saving to your outgoings is by reducing bookkeeping and accounting fees.

Kind hearted relatives or friends may volunteer to “help you do your bookkeeping” and offer “mates rates” for bookkeeping, or even do the books for free [Read more →]

Sydenham small business owners struggling with your MYOB bookkeeping and BAS can get help right here.

contact our Sydenham Bookkeepers, your local mobile bookkeeping service today

There’s only two weeks to lodge your December quarter Business Activity Statement [BAS].

Our team of bookkeepers servicing the suburbs around Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport have received a number of phone calls from small business owners in the City of Moreland council district wanting help to get their MYOB and Quickbooks bookkeeping upto date ready to lodge the December quarter BAS that’s due 2 March 2010

Savvy business owners from Sydenham on the west to Coburg on the East, have contacted our Pascoe Vale Bookkeepers, looking for a mobile bookkeeping service.

Rather than you struggling and getting stressed out over it, give us a call, and we’ll come to your premises and review your MYOB data files.

Our Melbourne mobile bookkeeping service can help you with reconciling your bank account statements. We’ll run various checks and reports to ensure that all the data has been entered correctly and allocated in the correct accounts

The Australian Taxation Office [ATO] advise that almost 80% of BAS forms are lodged incorrectly – as many small business owners are challenged with the task of completing their Business Activity Statements

Contact our Moreland district bookkeeping team today

Whether you use MYOB / Quickbooks, or you need Software Training for your small business in and around Pascoe Vale South, Coburg North, Keilor East, North Essendon, Doncaster, Ringwood Suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, we are here to help. Contact our Melbourne team of mobile book-keepers now [Read more →]

According to the Australian Federal Government they are helping small businesses with the Small Business and General Business Tax Break.

The package is such that small businesses can claim a bonus 50 per cent tax deduction for eligible assets costing more than $1,000 acquired from 13 December 2008 until 31 December 2009, and installed ready for use by 31 December 2010. [Read more →]

Bookkeeping for the end of the financial year should be well organised before 30 June 2009

Each year many small business owners around Pascoe Vale South, Coburg North, Keilor East, North Essendon, Inner Northern Suburbs of Melbourne, Australia reviewing their finances until after 30 June, potentially missing opportunities to reduce their tax while building wealth.

The best time to prepare for the end-of-year is now, before the end of another financial year [Read more →]

The Government will be issuing the $900 stimuls tax rebate to people who lodge their 2008-2009 tax return, even if those people are now dead.

So how do dead people stimulate the economy?

A spokesman for Treasurer Wayne Swan confirmed that if a person lodged a tax return and later died, they would qualify. [Read more →]

Bookkeeping: A Tax Free Lunch on the ATO? Clients often ask about meals as a tax deduction.

With the new Australian Government Tax- Free Stimulus Package Bonus to $900, how many free lunches would that get?

So if you want a free lunch, then the Australian Government one-off tax-free payments of up to $900 for eligible taxpayers, could be your ticket [Read more →]

We’ve had a number of potential clients contact us, surfing the internet to find the cheapest bookkeeper.

Is a cheap bookkeeper cheap because they themselves do not value their work/worth?

We’ll save you time, the cheapest bookkeeper is probably one who is straight out of TAFE and has got a piece of paper to say that they can do bookkeeping. Maybe the cheapest bookkeeper has done a MYOB course, or a Quickbooks course. Contact us for more details

Maybe the cheapest bookkeeper is just “starting a bookkeeping business” and does not feel confident in “charging too much”

It seems that these days you can get a bookkeeper around Melbourne Inner Suburbs, Fitzroy, Richmond, Toorak, or Pascoe Vale, and Essendon from [Read more →]

Many people are returning to work today after the Christmas / New Year break.

With lower interest rates, lower fuel prices and Kevin Rudd throwing money around like it’s burning a hole in his pocket, what is in store for 2009?

The Australian Taxation Office continue on their relentless search to hammer small business owners and squeeze every last cent out of them. Meanwhile, at the big end of town, multi-nationals and large corporations seem to get away with paying very little tax in comparison.

We’ve seen an increase in small business owners receiving the dreaded ATO letter chasing possible outstanding taxes. Maybe you’ve been a little slack in submitting your Business Activity Statements (BAS) lodgments, and need some help in preparing the paperwork to complete the returns. Contact us here for details

Next Quarterly BAS due 28 February 2009
There’ a few more weeks before the December 2008 quarter is due to be lodged, but bear in mind that the following quarter is then only due a few weeks later, 28 April 2009. It sounds like there’s plenty of time in between, but in Australia there’s a few short weeks in April with Good Friday, Easter Monday and ANZAC day

Don’t get stressed about your bookwork, leave it to professional mobile bookkeepers like us. You can outsource your bookkeeping needs, in the know;ledge that it will be taken care of in a speedy and efficient manner.

Who knows, we may even find some extra income in your business that you were not aware of. Don’t be fooled by believing that bookkeeping is an expense for your business.

Having a good bookkeeping service such as ours, can be a great asset to your business, and you’ll find that our service far exceeds the level of fees.

Smart business operators around Pascoe Vale South, Coburg North, Keilor East, North Essendon realise that an outsourced bookeeping service is an excellent investment for your small business. Contact us here for details