Category: BAS Courses

The Business Activity Statement finalises the accounting side of a business every month or quarter and includes income and expenses as well as liabilities and assets. Our Financial Reporting and BAS courses will help you perform BAS related bookkeeping.

This course comes after the Daily Transaction and Credit Management Course and the End of Month Bank Reconciliation Course.

It’s the final step which reveals the taxes and amounts owed by the business as well as obligations and liabilities which relate to payroll and superannuation.

Learn how to do Catchup Bookkeeping with our Financial Reporting and BAS Courses in QuickBooks Online, MYOB and Xero

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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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Is Jerry Lames Next Quarter Normal?

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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.

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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.

See The Next Quarter Xero Bookkeeping Course CASE STUDY
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The Xero BAS Course takes 5 hours

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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.

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Advanced Xero Training with the BAS Course Workbooks

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.

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BAS Courses for BAS Agents

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.

You don’t need to complete a Cert IV in most circumstances

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.

See the BAS Courses for Quickbooks, MYOB and Xero

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Can you process Payroll manually? You sure can and the ATO will help you

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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.

Advanced Certificate in Payroll Training Course includes MYOB, Xero, QuickBooks, Square Team, Deputy, TSheets

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.