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Do you have a couple friends or work mates who also need to learn how to use Microsoft Office or MYOB and Xero?
Learning with other students is a good way to keep motivated and increase the speed of learning.
Our online Microsoft Office Courses provide you with a step-by-step learning journey with lots of practical tasks.
Our learning management system enables you to log in and access the course materials from anywhere and learn at your own pace.
Group discounts are available for as little as 3 students for the following online courses:
Have you spent any time looking at this foundational accounting formula? It’s a formula that shows how wealthy you are – what your worth.
If you are a property owner you would be smiling because of the increase in home values since Covid – and for the last 30 or more years in Australia!
Continue reading Your Equity = Assets – LiabilitiesLike most financial reports they don’t tell the full picture by themselves.
You can learn how to use Xero and MYOB by yourself and in your own time.
Learning bookkeeping in general is something you can do by yourself. We had a student recently who learnt most aspects of how to use Xero by just watching the instructional videos and then answering the knowledge review tests.
Continue reading Learn MYOB and Xero by yourself and save money
All I could think about what the financial formulas in our Excel Courses!
He is learning about Pythagorean theory and all I could think about is how to reduce my mortgage!
I’ve spoke to hundreds of people about real estate, land and building new homes in the last few months and the cost of living is such a major issue in most of our lives.
Continue reading My son asked what my favourite formula is
This might seem like an odd question and I don’t mean to cause any issues with painters. I was looking for a painter recently and was surprised at how much they charge. The most interesting comment was “I’m very good and I will do the work for $400 cash a day”.
Do the maths and that equates to $50 per hour for an 8 hour day. Are you worth that much?
I understand that it doesn’t just come down to an hourly rate but it still begs the question..
Continue reading Are you worth more than a painter?
When you’re a business owner you see all sorts of things that employees don’t normally see. I get to see every online course enquiry for all our courses and its interesting to see what students want to learn but Eric Jones takes the cake.
Eric and his friends enter their details into our enquiry form at least once a day. He wants to learn everything and in ever format possible but want he really wants is tell his own story..
Continue reading Eric Jones inquires about our courses every day, but he also has a message to share
The Bookkeeping Academy is a membership program designed to help our graduates get more training and exposure to find work. We have a lot of Bookkeeping course students who want to learn how to use MYOB and Xero but many of our students are looking for office admin and business admin jobs.
One of the biggest differences between Office Admin and Business Admin jobs relates to business finances and strategy.
Business Admin jobs pay more because you perform tasks that relate directly to the profitability of the business. These tasks relate to both the initial strategy and the financial reporting so they consider all aspects of the business.
Our Career Academy include the following services:
When you look at these services do you think we should rename our academy from Bookkeeping to Office Academy?
Discover the courses that give you discounted membership to the Bookkeeping Academy.
If you have an opinion please send a reply email (if you are a subscriber).
I don’t think I’ve spent much time mentioning how many sample files you get when you enrol into Excel Complete online course.
There are over 100 Excel course practise files and they cover all sorts of different topics including:
Most of these files come from the work that I have been involved with over several different businesses.
These Excel course practise files are all unlocked and open so you are also free to use them for your own personal use or business use. Some of the personal uses include calculating your mortgage repayments and figuring out how to reduce your mortgage faster.
There are also practise files to help with forecasting, managing a large contact database and visually showing what the numbers mean using useful charts.
Here is some other information you might not be aware of about our online Microsoft Excel courses:
MYOB Business is the online version of MYOB that now has a full feature set that is desired by small business owners.
MYOB Business now the features that make MYOB better value for money than Xero and at half the price and better payroll features for 2-3 employees it’s the go to accounting software for micro businesses.
We’ve noticed an increase in MYOB Business Course enrolments since their last major upgrade and it might have something to do with their partnership with Bunnings.
Upskill in the newest MYOB online accounting software with our individual MYOB Business short courses.
MYOB is far better value for micro businesses with 2 or so employees. When you go past the current marketing discounts and look at the regular monthly rate MYOB is far better value for money at $31 per month vs Xero who charges $70 per month.
Micro businesses are massive employers even though they only have a small number of employees yet they have some of the hardest work to do.
These small business employees have to do all the same administration tasks that larger companies (with more staff) do while also stretching themselves to keep their customers happy.
Xero’s pricing has been criticised recently because they’ve continuously increasing prices almost every year despite the hardships that small businesses are going through.
If you are making the switch back to MYOB from Xero or starting a micro business from scratch you can learn everything you need to know with the MYOB Business COMPLETE Course package, including:
See what is included in the MYOB Business COMPLETE Course package
House renovations and improvements are interesting projects which need good project management skills. Several years ago I had to erect a shed for a tenant and to show how naïve I was about building back then I just saw a nice sized shed advertised for $600 and thought that would do the trick – good size and nice and cheap.
Luckily I had a friend who was much handier than me and some staff who could help with the project.
Job Tracking (in MYOB) and Projects in Xero is a system where you can allocate job numbers to transactions and then run reports to show the income and expenses that relate to that job number. Seems pretty simple right?
The problem with proper project and job tracking is that it involves many people making sure that they use that job number. Not just office admin staff but the trades people who are working on site need to keep track of every aspect of the job.
In this case study you’ll see how the trades people going to Bunnings to buy screws and wood for the concrete slab need to keep track of their expenses, just like the tradies who picked up the 10 bags of cement from the depot.
A tricky transactions was when they needed the help of another staff member to come and help put the roof on the shed. This person had to come from another work site, spend 30 minutes helping and then driving back to the other site – it was 1.5 hours of time that needs to be tracked as an expense!
Learn how to manage the income and expenses for job tracking using both MYOB and Xero in The $600 Shed Case Study with the Advanced Xero and MYOB Courses. Read other blog articles relating to Xero Projects.
Combine these skills with good credit management skills and you can ensure that your business doesn’t lose money when working on small or large projects for clients.
This Advanced Xero training workbook BUNDLE follows on from the BAS course case study of Jerry’s Messy Startup and continues Jerry Lames small business endeavours for The Next Quarter.
You’ll learn how to import transaction data for 3 months of bank statement activity and produce advanced financial reports to learn about and interpret the financial results for his business.
This Advanced Xero Course workbook goes deeper into understanding the financial results of bad business decisions on cashflow and credit management. Many small business owners use all of the money in their bank account because they see it is there and available to them when they can instead chose options that help their cashflow.
Jerry uses digital marketing to find clients for his various businesses and in particular uses HiPages to attract leads. HiPages is a project bidding site just like Airtasker, Bark and ServiceSeeking and this case study looks at whether you are better off getting your own website and using Google Ads to attract people to your business directly.
I’ve written about project bidding websites a few times in the past and am not a huge fan for various reasons. See some of the articles I’ve written about project bidding websites.
Don’t get me wrong, project bidding websites are handy and cheap compared to creating your own website and running Google Ads campaigns but the main winner is the project bidding websites themselves.
Bella interviewed some EzyLearn course graduates and one of the interviews with Jo-Anne, a Registered BAS Agent in Melbourne, revealed a great way to use Bark.com when you’re starting a bookkeeping business.
In this case study Jerry buys a small warehouse for his business so he doesn’t have to bring clients to his house and we explore alternative ways that this “capital purchase” could have occurred.
Buy your copy of the Advanced Xero Course in Cashflow, Budgets and Return on Investment Workbook
I wrote about the messy startup for Jerry’s new business venture. It is used in the BAS Courses for QuickBooks, MYOB and Xero and in The Next Quarter case study you’ll see the results of Jerry’s business decisions and how some of his financial transactions have turned out.
You’ll get enough information from the financial reports to advise Jerry how to make future decisions for his business – particularly when it relates to cashflow, credit management and purchases.
In The Next Quarter Bookkeeping Course case study we look at Jerry’s financial reports and start to keep better track of income vs expenditure as well as better ways to use his money (like buying assets vs paying off loans).
Jerry will also have the knowledge to make product and services decisions because he’ll know what is selling well and where he is making more profit.
In The Next Quarter we look at how his business gets discovered online and what other digital marketing options are available to him.
We explore whether he should continue to use a project bidding site like HiPages or focus on getting more traffic to his own website.
Ultimately, no matter which digital marketing medium you use you’ll want to strengthen your sales skills to learn how to identify ideal clients and turn them into customers. At the same time you’ll want to learn how to help clients who are not ideal.
Cashflow is critical for the survival of a business. It’s like the blood pumping through the veins or the air going into and out of the lungs and without enough positive cashflow you don’t have a business that can survive.
This case study is used in our Advanced Certificate in Xero Cashflow and Financial Reporting Course.
People often ask “How long does it take to complete a Business Activity Statement” but there are several different correct answers to that question.
If all your transactions are entered correctly in your accounting software and your bank account is reconciled the BAS Lodgement takes a matter of minutes.
The hard work is often completed by bookkeepers who do the daily data entry or the catchup bookkeeping to make sure all the data is captured. This task can take days or even weeks!
If you want to save money you can lodge your BAS yourself and use our BAS Course workbooks to learn how to do it.
Learn how to lodge your BAS, including simple payroll wage payments using our Xero BAS Course training workbooks and sample data.
We use Jerry’s Messy Startup case study and you will be his bookkeeper to make sure everything is accurate for lodgement.
It is assumed that you know how to perform daily data entry and bank reconciliations using Xero.
The tricky part of lodging Business Activity Statements is making sure you get the correct tax codes for GST transactions and payroll. If you get these codes wrong you could end up paying less tax to the ATO than you are supposed to or even underpay your staff.
The difference between a BAS Agent and a junior bookkeeper is the compliance requirements to make sure they get it right. A BAS Agent has a duty of care to ensure that the correct tax codes are used and the Cert IV in Bookkeeping and BAS Agent skillset courses (which are Nationally Accredited) take students through the legal framework around compliance.
When a Registered BAS Agent provides these services as a contract bookkeeper they are providing a BAS Service and that is administered by the Tax Practitioners Board.
A BAS Agent is trained but more importantly insured to ensure they get the information 100% correct – otherwise they can be sued. That means they have to have Professional Indemnity insurance to provide BAS Services to clients.
If you want to start your own bookkeeping business and provide BAS Services you need the Cert IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping Course.
In most circumstances where you are completing the BAS as an employee you will be working under the supervision and direction of the business owner, business manager or the bookkeeper or accountant for that business.
Students who enrol into our BAS Courses simply want to know how to perform these tasks using accounting programs like QuickBooks, MYOB and Xero.
You don’t need to subscribe to expensive accounting software like Xero if you only have one or two staff members. Business owners have been processing payroll manually for years and these basics are taught in our BAS Course with the Ad hoc payroll spreadsheet.
I was speaking with a hairdressing salon owner last year and she mentioned that she uses the manual weekly pay tables provided by the ATO and a spreadsheet program to pay all her staff.
We use these pay tables to introduce students to the foundation concepts about payroll.
Every business owner collects GST and taxes on behalf of the ATO from the money they pay their staff. This money is a liability payable to the ATO as part of their quarterly or monthly Business Activity Statements.
As part of the BAS Course you’ll be introduced to the process to enter payroll transactions as journal entries.
It’s a great introduction to basic payroll skills and leads beautifully into the Advanced Certificate in Payroll Courses using QuickBooks, MYOB and Xero.
