Posts from — July 2009

As 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. [Read more →]

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 [Read more →]

Business Activity Statements, for business owners reporting quarterly, are due on 28 July 2009.

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

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.

To benefit from this Tax Break a small business must have a turnover of less than $2.0 million a year.

Forget the tax break, shop at your locally owned store

This may look good on paper, but unless you actually need to make any investment in capital purchases such as motor vehicles or equipment, how does it actually help small business? [Read more →]