by Online Business Training Courses | Friday, July 6, 2018 | Business Secrets, Business Startup Help with starting a new business, News, Small Business, small business management
Learning to be bolder in business through mistakes Nearly every business owner will run into some bad luck at some stage. In the early days, the most common runs of bad luck are to do with underquoting, late or unpaid invoices, ineffective marketing campaign, or a...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, July 5, 2018 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), Business Secrets, Business Startup Help with starting a new business, News, Small Business, small business management, training courses
Do you have a plan for your business to adapt to change? Every business — large or small, new or established — has its challenges from time to time. The businesses that are unsuccessful in overcoming those challenges haven’t been felled by the challenge itself, but...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, July 2, 2018 | 05 Researching the Market, 11 Selling your products or services, Business Secrets, Business Startup Help with starting a new business, Marketing Training Courses Online, News, Sales Training Courses Online, Small Business
Age doesn’t have a lot to do with how much customers love you I was speaking the other day with a young guy who left school and would love to start his own business, but he said that clients wouldn’t give him a go because of his age. It made me think about the...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, July 2, 2018 | 10 Report on Financial Activities, Business Secrets, Finance Training Courses Online, National Bookkeeping, News, Small Business, training courses
The Different Kinds of Bookkeeping Professionals If you dread having to prepare and maintain your financials and are spending way too much time on all of this, then you’re going to save time (and inevitably money) by hiring a professional to do it for you. But...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, June 21, 2018 | Business Startup Help with starting a new business, National Bookkeeping, News, Real Estate Agents, Small Business, small business management
Are you knowledgeable and interested in property? A buyer’s agent (or buyer’s advocate) is a licensed professional that specialises in finding, evaluating and negotiating the sale of property for a buyer. They do not sell real estate. Only a properly licensed...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, June 18, 2018 | Career Academy, Career Training and Upskilling, News, Small Business
When does *free* accounting software really become more expensive? The best bookkeepers are forever tasked with the challenge of staying abreast of cloud accounting and bookkeeping technologies and software packages. By moving accounting software into the cloud,...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, June 14, 2018 | Career Academy, National Bookkeeping, News
How a bookkeeping internship can lead to a great bookkeeping job Before a BAS or tax agent can register with the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) to be allowed to provider services to clients for a fee, they must have worked for between 1,000 and 1,400 hours supervised...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, May 31, 2018 | National Bookkeeping, News
Why bookkeepers need to be emotionally intelligent Throughout the modern era, technological innovations have been the key drivers of economic growth. The most important are what economists call general purpose technologies — the steam engine, electricity, the internal...
by Online Business Training Courses | Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | National Bookkeeping, News, training courses
Going into business for yourself can be a great move for the motivated It takes a change in attitude for contract bookkeepers to stand out in the gig economy. As an independent contractor, you need to take charge and work with authority. This is different from...
by Online Business Training Courses | Tuesday, May 8, 2018 | 07 Marketing Action Plan, 08 Undertake Marketing Activities, Business Tools, Google, Marketing Training Courses Online, News, small business marketing, training courses
How to get your business really happening online If you’re going to execute a digital marketing campaign correctly, you first need to create a project plan. But this is much like most things with any degree of complexity. Creating a project plan is basically...
by Online Business Training Courses | Tuesday, May 1, 2018 | National Bookkeeping, News
BAS agents across the world In Australia, the types of services you’re allowed to provide to clients for a fee depends on the level and type of training you’ve had. BAS agents, for example, are only allows to prepare and lodge activity statements for businesses; a tax...
by Online Business Training Courses | Friday, April 27, 2018 | National Bookkeeping, News
Factoring in VAT and GST for overseas customers We’ve previously talked about valued-added tax (VAT), the consumption tax charged by most countries around the world, including Australia, although ours is called GST. In that post, we talked about a couple of...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, April 23, 2018 | Finance Training Courses Online, National Bookkeeping, News, Small Business
Understanding VAT and GST VAT simply means a value added tax. In Australia, the goods and services tax (GST) is a VAT of 10% on most goods and services sales. Further, VAT tax is a consumption tax that’s collected incrementally, based on the increase, or “value...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, April 9, 2018 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Startup Help with starting a new business, National Bookkeeping, News, Small Business
Are you aware of your reporting requirements for business? In a previous post, we talked about the government initiative called Standard Business Reporting (SBR), and which cloud accounting systems are SBR-enabled. We also touched on how SBR speeds up the reporting...
by Online Business Training Courses | Tuesday, March 20, 2018 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, News
Is your mortgage covered? What would you do if you couldn’t do the job you’ve trained for anymore. You may be able to work, but possibly not the work you originally intended. If you are a bookkeeper or BAS Agent you might not be able to travel to clients sites,...
