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Single Touch Payroll – Are You Ready?

Single Touch Payroll – Are You Ready?

Single Touch Payroll is the government’s way of capturing data in real time for PAYG, Superannuation etc – it also means staff won’t be chasing you for payslips and PAYG summaries as this is all accessible via their myGov portals. They will see tax withheld, gross wages paid, super liable to date in real time.

It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas…

It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas…

It’s here, again! It is just me or does it come around quicker and quicker every year? 

3 Ways to Increase Your Effectiveness at Work

3 Ways to Increase Your Effectiveness at Work

Not feeling like you are achieving as much as you should? Here are three tools to work smarter, healthier and more effectively...

EVERYONE LOVES FREE MONEY...

EVERYONE LOVES FREE MONEY...

If you know me at all you know I love free stuff… But I think it’s safe to say we all love free money don’t we? 

Time Management Tools

Time Management Tools

Always feel there aren't enough hours in the day? Unfortunately, I can't give you more.. and I wouldn't if I could, because I believe if you don't manage your time with 24 hours effectively... 40 hours wouldn't solve the problem.. These 3 tools will though....

Going Paperless – Receipt Capturing

Sick of receipts fading, shoeboxes full of invoices, receipts and paper? CHUCK ‘EM!... well almost… First download the Xero app to your mobile and snap away…

To add receipts and expenses as you go:

1.    If you’ve got an Android phone, tap RECEIPTS then the plus sign (+); on an iPhone, tap the plus sign (+) then ‘Add receipt’. 

2.    Key in the details. 

3.    Choose whether you paid from a business account, or from your own funds and need to be paid back. (Great for expense claims from staff as you need to approve them once they hit your dashboard before they can be repaid and you can see the receipt…… and they can’t say they lost it!)

4.    In the bottom right click Add file > find it on your camera roll or take a snapshot of the receipt in your hand, and upload it as a file…. then off to the recycle centre it goes!

 

Want to learn more about Xero and streamlining your systems? Send us an email for a free consultation!

Top 3 Productivity Tips When Working from Home

Top 3 Productivity Tips When Working from Home

Personally, I love the freedom of just needing wi-fi and a laptop to be able to do my job… from my home office, to my local café to the other side of the world… I can and do literally work ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE. But, keeping productive and motivated in a world so cluttered with distractions can be challenging… so here are some ways I keep productive.

Me time… and why it’s important

Me time… and why it’s important

As entrepreneurs, business owners, humans…. We tend to put others needs before ours, clients, customers, colleagues, family, friends, partners… As selfless as this sounds you are actually doing them a disservice but giving giving giving ALL you have…

Creating Bank Reconciliation Rules in Xero

Creating Bank Reconciliation Rules in Xero

Creating rules takes a little time to set up but will save you hours coding every transaction each month! Here's HOW...

Employee V Contractor

Employee V Contractor

There is a lot of confusion around what classifies a subcontractor and who should be paid as an employee on the books. Recently, this particular question came up with a client. So here are the rules...

Make Your Dashboard Your Friend

Make Your Dashboard Your Friend

Using Xero? Are you making the most of your dashboard?

Learn how to maximise your SNAPSHOT of your numbers and keep an eye on those liabilities...

SuperStream… are you ready?

SuperStream… are you ready?

By June 30, businesses MUST meet the ATO SuperStream standards.

The criteria?

1. Paying superannuation contributions electronically...

Cash or Accrual Basis... but what does it all meeean, Basil?!

Cash or Accrual Basis... but what does it all meeean, Basil?!

When I lodge the first BAS for a client or when I set them up on accounting software such as MYOB or Xero – I ask them, do you report on cash or accrual basis? The common response I get is *blank look* “Huh?!”…

So here is the difference...

3 Common GST Mistakes

3 Common GST Mistakes

June is fast approaching and it will not only be BAS time again, but the end of the Financial Year..

GST and what has it and what doesn't is a common area of confusion for my clients! And fair enough too.. like the English language there are so many "exceptions to the rule"... 

MARCH into this B.A.S with your game face on....!

MARCH into this B.A.S with your game face on....!

"I would rather face root canal surgery with no anaesthetic than do bank reconciliations" - Devan Sabaratnam

Does that sound like you? Well it's that time again.. the end of a quarter.. but it doesn't have to be as bad as all that! Why not look at it as a clean slate, a time to reflect and check in with your business? BAS time can actually be used to your advantage!