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What is the cheapest way to learn Xero and Microsoft Excel

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Learning how to use Xero for specific tasks is easy. There are dozens of videos that you can watch for free on YouTube and they are good for “JIT Learning” – Just In Time Learning. If you want to get a thorough and detailed training about how to perform bookkeeping using Xero you need to learn how to perform all the bookkeeping tasks.

Most people like to watch training videos about how to use Xero or Excel and then try to replicated it.

But once you’ve watched 3-4 videos you get the feeling that you should be using the software. You’ll also start to realise the benefit of a course that contains all the sample data and exercises to help you learn bookkeeping.

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Office Admin Workers Day – gift ideas for staff

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Office admin workers are the key employees which keep every business running, large or small. They perform the tasks required to keep some form of order and record keeping for the business and without their assistance everything could turn messy quickly.

There is a celebration in a small number of countries for these works and it is often known as Secretary’s Day.

It is an opportunity for bosses or managers to give gifts to their secretary’s and some common gifts tend to be gestures of appreciation that are relatively easy to give in a workplace setting. These often include:

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Join the Bookkeeping Academy

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Join the Bookkeeping Academy as a member to improve your personal brand and get online exposure for bookkeeping and office administration work.

  • Membership to bookkeeper database
  • Verification of Credentials
  • Online Member Profile
  • 4 hours annual CPD training credits
  • Your Worklife Contribution (optional)
  • Local Awareness Marketing
  • Training in bookkeeping integration subjects
  • Access to Academic Development Program (APD)
  • Bookkeeping Affiliate Program Membership
  • Social Media Marketing Introduction Training

Business Owner Benefits

The Bookkeeping Academy is designed for anyone who wants to enhance their knowledge and use of technology to manage the financial aspects of their business.

As a business owner this gives you a low cost educational and support resource to help you use technology to become more organised and efficient in the administration aspects of your business.

Ongoing Course Access and Support

EzyLearn Online Course Updates & Additions for latest versions of Xero, Excel & MYOB courses

This membership gives you ongoing access to EVERY course that you have ever enrolled into (since January 1st 2013) with EzyLearn – this includes all

  • updated training workbooks,
  • educational videos and
  • exercise files.

We update our training materials regularly to keep up with changes in features, compliance requirements and navigation changes made by the major software vendors.

Specialisation for Certified Bookkeeping Assistants

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When you specialise you demonstrate your commitment to a deeper level of understanding about certain Bookkeeping Assistant tasks. This knowledge ensure you are more productive for your employer or client and can help them use technology to better manage their business.

Specialisation Training include:

  1. Introduction to Apps and Integrations
  2. Receipt Capture and Storage
  3. Credit Management
  4. Rostering and Workforce Management
  5. Financial Reporting

Get the details about Bookkeeping Academy membership

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BAS Course and Financial Reporting training by rescuing Jerry’s messy startup

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Some of the most challenging bookkeeping work is catchup or rescue bookkeeping. When there are 3 months worth of transactions of all different types and you need to

  • enter the data,
  • reconcile the bank accounts and
  • make sure that the tax, GST and payroll data is accurate –

Welcome to Jerry’s Messy Startup Case Study.

This course is designed for students or workers who already have an understanding about data entry for daily financial transactions, credit management and bank reconciliation.

You’ll work with 3 months of data and end up producing financial reports to help Jerry be compliant with the ATO for GST as well as his payroll PAYG obligations.

You’ll also give Jerry some useful insights into his messy business using financial reporting.

This BAS Course case study is available to help you learn BAS and Financial Reporting using QuickBooks, MYOB and Xero.

Information about these BAS Courses

  • BAS course in QuickBooks Online, MYOB and Xero takes approx 5 hours to complete
  • You are legally permitted to provide BAS services provided you are under instruction from the Business Owner, the business accountant or a registered BAS Agent.
  • BAS Services include Payroll and Superannuation calculations
  • Completing your BAS gets tricky with partial GST expenses
  • Data entry for historical transactions is what takes the most time when completing the BAS
  • Catchup or Rescue Bookkeeping is hard when the business owner can’t find copies of receipts
  • Business owners get stressed at BAS lodgement time because there are penalties for being late

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Can you REALLY Trust PayPal?

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When we were using our old enrolment form I was alerted about the option to migrate to using Stripe instead of PayPal.

At the time I wondered why a software company that makes online forms would encourage all their users to migrate away from PayPal – the company that Elon Musk started. Now I can see why.

Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of great features that PayPal offer, including:

  • PayPal Pay in 4
  • Cashflow lending
  • low cost ePayments gateway

The problem we’ve noticed is that once a payment has been received the system that we’re using often doesn’t get the correct notification of a successful payment for that order.

It started with our Wufoo form builder several years ago, but recently it has happened for some students who use PayPal for their payments.

AI Driven Customer Service, VERY Average PayPal

As a result of a recently missed payment a student requested a refund and the whole process for this has changed as well. In fact it was clunky and awful to use. So bad that we found ways of trying to reach out and ask a question to a real person.

We also wanted to know how to rectify the payment notification issue and came across a VERY awkward support system that wanted to just brush it’s hand of our enquiry!

The PayPal AI support assistant didn’t appear to understand English

We offer a 30 day money back guarantee and have since we first started offering online courses in MYOB and Xero and Microsoft Office. Early on this offer was important because some students didn’t know if they would be able to learn online. Now it’s to ensure that students are completely happy with their online learning experience.

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Bookkeeping Basics: Chart of Accounts Explained

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Just wanted to give you the heads-up on some cool stuff we’ve been working on. We made this free guide called “Introduction to Bookkeeping Beginner Basics” (super catchy, right? ?) that you can grab on the EzyLearn website.

Think of it as the foundation of your business’s finances. Our guide walks you through setting one up in Xero, MYOB, or QuickBooks, but this blog post is more about why it matters.

Okay, so what IS a chart of accounts?

Basically, it’s just a way to organize all your business’s accounts (like assets, liabilities, etc.) so you know where your money’s coming from and going.

It makes your reports make WAY more sense and gives you a quick look at your business’s health. It’s like creating categories for your money (spending, saving, making, etc) so you can easily see the flow.

A good chart of accounts helps you play by the rules (financial reporting standards) and can be customized to fit your business perfectly. For example, you could track your income and expenses by product type or department. So you can adjust it as your business gets more complicated.

Xero call is an Accounts List and you’ll learn about this in the Beginners Certificate Xero Courses.

Breaking Down the ‘Accounts’

When you set up your chart of accounts, it will be organized like this: banks accounts, assets, liabilities, equity, income, and expenses in that order.

  • Assets: This is not money that you have received. So, imagine you invoice someone and they haven’t paid you yet? That’s “accounts receivable,” which is different from actual income!
  • Liabilities: Think of these as debts your business owes. Like leases or credit from suppliers.
  • Equity: This is stuff your company owns outright, like equipment you’ve paid for. If you sell it, you get the money! Cars and office equipment are equity.
  • Expenses: This is the money you spend immediately on running your business. Like gas for your car or office supplies. If you pay right away, it’s an expense. If you get a bill with 14 days to pay, it’s a liability.

Why do you even need a chart of accounts?

No matter how you keep track of your finances (even if you’re still using a spreadsheet!), it’s crucial to know where your money is coming from and going. A chart of accounts is what makes that possible. Keeping it up-to-date will give you an accurate snapshot of your business’s financial health at any moment.

This is just one part of our Bookkeeping Basics series, so don’t forget to download the free guide from the EzyLearn website if you want to learn more!

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Thank you Dani!

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I’ve received some negative feedback this week, but it’s not as bad as you think.

When I say negative it means that we did something that needed correcting. I think a lot of people take any negative feedback as a personal attack but I’ve come to realise it is a HUGE BONUS when someone actually reaches out to tell you what they think – but you need to do something about it.

I love hearing from our blog subscribers and students PARTICULARLY if it helps us improve and do a better job.

Dani, if you are reading this, you made us act on our digital marketing using MailChimp!

I think Mailchimp has become a bit of a rip off to be honest. They’ve figured out exactly what people like about their email marketing software and created “upgrades” for anyone who wants to use them.

When anyone requested our free training course samples we use MailChimp for our AutoResponders – messages that are sent automatically at pre defined intervals.

Here is an example of an AutoResponder series (or what MailChimp call a Journey).

  1. Person subscribes to your list (Mailchimp now limit your lists to 3)
  2. Send a Confirmation message which includes details about how to access our Free samples.
  3. Wait one day
  4. Sent a message about our learning journeys
  5. Wait one day
  6. Send a message about our past students and testimonials
  7. Wait 3 days
  8. Sent a message about our Bookkeeping Academy

All of those 8 steps were part of ONE Journey Automation (AutoResponder) but then Mailchimp limited the number of Journey points so we got rid of the “Wait one day” steps.

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Example of a customer journey in MailChimp

Mailchimp realised that their users were creating lots of automated marketing messages (Journeys) so they included this ability in a more expensive “upgrade” plan. Anyone who used them previously were simply TRUNCATED and left to waste!

It resulted in 3 emails being sent automatically and Dani thought that was a complete overload and very SPAMMY.

There are alternative email marketing software programs and one that still enables you to create long journeys is Aweber.

Many other students probably thought the same but because you wrote it down and made us realise how bad it looks, we acted on it!

The messages come out regularly and are spaced with a day or two in between them.

The RESULT

We’ve now created many different journeys and separated the dates to make sure that the messages you receive when you request our free Xero Course samples for example are spaced out evenly.

Learn Mailchimp in our Email Marketing Course and connect with your own customers.

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Stay Ahead of the Curve: Our Updated Xero Beginners Course Reflects Xero’s Constant Evolution

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In today’s fast-paced business environment, staying stagnant is a recipe for falling behind. This is especially true with accounting software, where innovation and updates are constantly reshaping how businesses manage their finances.

At EzyLearn, we’re committed to providing our business administration students with the most current and relevant training possible, particularly when it comes to mastering Xero.

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Are you 1) Angry, 2) Frustrated or 3) Exhausted trying to use Microsoft Excel?

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Master Microsoft Excel one step at a time with the guidance of:

  1. Training Workbooks
  2. Excel Course exercises
  3. Instructional Video Tutorials
  4. Practical tasks used in Office Admin jobs
  5. Knowledge reviews
  6. Excel Course Certificate
  7. Support

Don’t pull your hair out or cry in frustration because you lack some skills and confidence to work with Excel spreadsheets.

Don’t get angry because you struggle to create a spreadsheet from scratch that performs the calculations you need or shows your information in meaningful, concise reports.

Don’t LOSE YOUR MIND because you can’t get charts to look the way you want them to!

Follow the “ultimate learning journey” so you learn Microsoft Excel by performing small exercises one step at a time.

We’ve combined printed workbooks, exercises files and video tutorials so that you just need to watch and then do.

The practical tasks are used in most office admin jobs and gradually get harder and harder as you progress to the advanced Excel Course topics.

* FREE Sample Available *

Most Popular Microsoft Excel Course

The most popular and widely used software program in the world is Microsoft Excel and you can learn how to use it one step at a time.

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The best value for money Excel course is Excel COMPLETE

It includes 9 x half day short courses that take you from beginners Excel to Excel Advanced Certificate.

The courses are carefully and lovingly designed to take you on a learning journey where you’ll

  1. learn new skills,
  2. reinforce those new skill using the Excel course exercise files and case studies and then
  3. progress to more advanced functions.

The Excel course manuals (which are available separately if you want to save money) include step-by-step tasks and the Instructor video tutorials show you exactly how to do it – you can repeat them as often as you want to.

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How does $20,000 mortgage repayments equate to $47,598.02?

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All eyes will be on the announcement from the Reserve Bank Governor today to see what is happening with interest rates. If you are like most people your cashflow would have been affected in the years since Covid because of the increasing interest rates.

There has never been a more important time to master your household budget and spending than now and good knowledge of Microsoft Excel will give you these skills.

The COMPLETE Microsoft Excel Course Package now includes a mortgage spreadsheet

Microsoft Excel Training Course can help you halve your mortgage

A mortgage for your home is a huge debt, particularly for those living in the swelling capital cities with soaring house prices. The pro and cons of buying your own house and living in it are:

  • You don’t pay capital gains tax on a property you live in, but
  • You can’t claim the interest component of your loan

The big problem with this is the interest charge – you can’t claim the cost of it yet it’s a massive component of each and every payment you make on your mortgage.

You’d need your house price to go up at least at the interest rate you are paying to make it a good investment – and right now you’d be doing fine (perhaps except in Perth now).

Bigger payments reduce the interest paid

Our Microsoft Excel Training Course now includes an Excel spreadsheet file that will help you see just how much money you’d save if you paid even a small amount off extra each month!

You can use the mortgage comparison file to compare two mortgages, make extra payments or even shorten the term of the loan to see how much you’d need to pay each month if you want to pay your mortgage off quicker.

If you are an existing Excel Course student you’ll find the new file at the end of our Microsoft Excel Advanced Course 309.

Take 10 years off your mortgage when you can

There are several reasons to open this spreadsheet and start seeing the resulting figures to workout the best way to allocate the money you earn. 

  • Interest rates are at record highs,
  • house prices ‘may’ be peaking,
  • some people say that Australian banks are so highly leveraged to the residential property market that they’ll need to hold more capital reserves.

Either way you look at it, why not use your Microsoft Excel skills and play with some calculations to see how much better off you could be if you are financially prudent now.

You can also use this Microsoft Excel file to do a stress test and see how much your mortgage would be if interest rates do go up as many people expect they will.

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Cyber Security for Bookkeepers – How are scammers trying to get you

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Every contract bookkeeper loves receiving these emails but they can wreak havoc with your computer

Emails like these usually means you have a new client and the client has invited you to start doing the bookkeeping for them on their MYOB file.

Everything about the email looks good but here is what to look for and the steps to take:

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Engaging a New Worker? Here Are The Things You Need To Do, particularly if you’re classified by the ATO as a withholder:

There’s lots to do when businesses engage a new worker.  As an employer, you’ll be busy going through the onboarding process and showing your new employee the ropes, but there are other important things to do when you add a new member to your team.

Keeping accurate records complete with the right information is essential for businesses to maintain, and that means updating and adding data when engaging a new worker.  Here are some things to keep in mind as you go through this process:

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Cert IV in Bookkeeping and Accounting + MYOB and Xero Course TRIO

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Not every students needs a Cert IV in Bookkeeping and most business admin and accounts jobs don’t ask for it but if you want to be a BAS Agent or get a Diploma in Accounting it’s a must.

Most employers want you to have a good knowledge about MYOB and Xero but some Cert IV in Bookkeeping Courses don’t even cover them.

The Cert IV in Bookkeeping and Accounting and MYOB and Xero Course TRIO includes it all.

It is ideal for job seekers or current employees of accounting firms who want to progress in their career.

Learn bookkeeping with the Xero and MYOB course online training package - Bookkeeping Academy $20 per week

Now, you can start with a $400 deposit and the balance of payment when you’ve complete the formal Cert IV enrolment process.

You get access to the MYOB and Xero courses quickly and can start learning right away and then go through your accreditation.

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COMPLETE Xero Course includes Beginners to Advanced skills

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This Xero course is the most popular with job seekers and business owners because it gives them the training they need to do almost anything using Xero. These are the course topics:

The Complete Xero Course takes most students 3-4 weeks to complete but you can learn it at your own pace and in your own time.

12 months or LIFETIME access – your choice

Ezy Learning Lifelong training platform for Xero, MYOB, Excel, Digital Marketing training courses

Enrol at our original enrolment website and you can learn everything about Bookkeeping using Xero with LIFETIME course access.

This includes all additional content we create and updates to training material. It also includes access to EzyLearn ANSWERS!

If you want the cheaper option you can enrol into the course here with 12 months course access and support.

Join us as a Tutor

If you have industry experience AND you complete our courses you can also become an EzyLearn Tutor.

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As an EzyLearn TUTOR you become our partner and work part time, while also earning an income online as our affiliate – this is just one of our Career Academy membership options for students.

Enquire with us today and get the FREE Xero course sample – as well as Microsoft Office and Word training!

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If you have any other questions you’ll find answers to most of them at our FAQ’s.

Here are just some of the most common questions and links to their answers.

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