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 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...