Whether you’re a small business located in and around Cockburn, Melville, Fremantle, Canning Vale, or South Perth, Australia,  we encourage you to focus on what you do best, and we’ll do the rest

With less than three weeks away before the second quarter Business Activity Statements [Q2 BAS] are due for lodgement, there’s not much time to get your bookwork organised

For small businesses in and around Cockburn, Melville, Fremantle, Canning Vale, and South Perth, 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 Contact us today for more information

We’ve seen some terrible mistakes made by people who try to do their own books, or someone who’s not that proficient. There was a situation recently where a large retail chain collapsed after their bookkeeper helped herself to around $20million !! Wouldn’t you notice that sort of money missing?

Fortunately the company recovered most of the funds, though their cashflow was totally destroyed, they had over capitalised, and the missing $20million was just a further factor that led to their downfall.

Maybe the problem was more with the bookkeeper than the bookkeeping. Well, yes and no. What were the financial controllers and accountants doing when reviewing the figures?

On a smaller scale, bad bookkeeping can be like dining at a one of Fremantle’s finest restaurants, having a wonderful meal and waking up the next day with food poisoning. It’s not until the damage is done, that you discover the food poisoning.

We often come across business owners doing their own bookwork, or saving money by using “cheap” or inexperienced bookkeepers that may be family friends or relatives wanting to “do the right thing”. It’s not until we check the bookkeeping that we find some horrendous (but quite simple) errors that have occurred that can totally affect the cash flow of a small busines

When’s the last time you’ve had health check in the bookkeeping of your business? Contact us NOW for details

Whether you’re a carpenter, landscaper, electrician, or even a photographer, we’ll be able to help you with your Quickbooks bookkeeping needs in and around Fremantle

Contact us today for help with your Quickbooks bookkeeping

This time of year brings many enquiries for our Fremantle bookkeeping service. The main questions are, for a basic Tax Return: “How Long, and How Much Fees?”

Stroll through any large shopping centre, and you’ll see that centre management have rented out the floor space in the middle of the mall to tax agents who’ve set themselves up like a fast-food outfit.

Wham, Bham, thank you, ma’am, and it’s all over!

Get ‘em in, sit ‘em down, fill in a form, and click a button …. Gone!!

We get quite a few enquiries from individuals, on a salary, with little expenses that they can claim, so their tax return is very straight forward. We are not registered Tax Agents and cannot advise / lodge tax returns on their behalf.

Normally if you go to a shopping centre you’ll most likely find a registered tax agent – they’ll most likely set up a table at this time of year, and be sitting with their laptop waiting for the next customer to come along – costs about $100 and takes about 20 minutes, with about 3 or 4 weeks to get answer from ATO

Some of these tax agents only operate for a few months of the year, specifically to help individuals with their tax returns.

Small business owners may find that the service offered by these quick-fix-tax-return booths are not set up to handle your needs, and that’s where a mobile bookkeeping service such as ours can be of great benefit to you

As bookkeepers, we can help with any bookkeeping requirements you may have, so please feel free to contact us to discuss your bookkeeping setup

By being ontop of your bookwork, you can have a chat with your accountant and make sure that you have the correct strategies in place to reduce your tax liabilities.

Failing to be prepared can be costly when you come to lodge your tax return after 30 june 2010

Often clients are devastated when they discover how much tax they have to pay because they didn’t get their bookwork upto date and 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 Fremantle 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

Business 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 Mrach 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 Mrach 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 syatem for your bookwork. We can assist you with any challenges, or even just releave you of the burden of the book-keeping

Our bookkeeping Service has clients in and around Cockburn, Melville, Fremantle, Canning Vale, and South Perth, Western Australia. Contact us here for details

Apparently the book-keeper was falsifying invoices as she entered data into the accounting software as an account payable to a legitimate vendor.

The bookkeeping software system allowed the bookeeper to print the cheques in her own name, then she’d change the name on the cheque details recorded in the system

The prosecution also allege that she intercepted bank statements and destroyed copies of the cheques she wrote to herself so that no-one else could discover her book-keeping activities

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.

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 Fremantle 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.

Maybe we are the only small business owners in and around Cockburn, Melville, Fremantle, Canning Vale that object to calling large companies and have a computerised voice telling them to press this number for that service, or that number for another option

You may be unfortunate enough to find “Lara” answering your enquiry when you contact a certain mobile phone company. Lara seems not only to have a hearing problem, but also lacks any understanding even when you tell “her” that you just want to pay your phone bill

This Fremantle book keeping service, like many small business owners in and around Cockburn, Melville, Fremantle, Canning Vale fully appreciate that the best way to win customers and to keep customers is with Real Customer Service. That means that the customer should be treated as a special person who has individual needs, and feelings.

Our Fremantle bookeeping service has been looking after loyal clients for many years. Those clients understand the benefits of outsourcing their book keeping. Those clients know that their book-keeper is only a phone call or an email away.

Our Cockburn, Melville, Fremantle, Canning Vale bookkeeping clients understand that sometimes things don’t always go to plan, and they may have an emergency situation and need to call on us, as their bookkeepers, to get them some reports in a hurry, or find a missing invoice, or even track down the warranty certificate for some of their office equipment.

Congratulations go to the “think tank” and marketing department of WBC!! They’ve finally realised that individual people make up their client base. That small business owners like to be treated with courtesy and respect by large money-hungry corporations who have seen their shareholders and their profits being more important than their customers

Maybe, just maybe, it’s just a marketing wheeze that WBC are only paying lip service to. Here’s an open invitation to the GM of WBC to talk to us about what customer service is really all about