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The purpose of a well designed course is to provide a series of steps for students to perform that gives them the knowledge and practical experience they need to learn.
We use a number of different tools and case studies and one of my favourites is the Jerry Lame “. He’s like many people that you’ll meet every day.
Continue reading Just follow the messy trail and you’ll learn Xero and MYOB
I’ve tried and tested hundreds of software programs over the last 25 years and I’ve noticed something very interesting in the last 12 months – they’ve gotten so complicated!
Email marketing is commonplace these days and you know it’s a money spinner when Intuit buy Mailchimp.
The cost of email marketing software has gone up and up and up and all the software vendors are increasing their prices at the moment. I thought Xero was pushing it with their yearly price increase but Aweber is similar to Mailchimp and they recently increased one of their monthly packages from $10pm to $55pm – that’s OVER 500% increase.
Continue reading Has it all become too complicated?Is it worth it?
Working with our graduates we’ve discovered that organisations are still looking for staff who can work remotely.
A quick look on Indeed (which seems to have more remote working jobs advertised) shows a wide range of jobs from Sales and Customer Service administration to Bookkeeping and Business Administration.
Continue reading Remote Working Internship
We receive lots of bookkeeping course enquiries from students who are changing careers and want to find bookkeeping work.
If you are new to bookkeeping you may be familiar with MYOB because it has been around for decades. As soon as you start looking at job ads you’ll hear about Xero because a lot of businesses are migrating away from MYOB to Xero.
So a common question is should I learn MYOB and then Xero?
Continue reading Should you learn MYOB, Xero or QuickBooks First?
Am I speaking gibberish or just crazy?
No, I’m speaking the language of eInvoicing!
PEPPOL is a global way for accounting systems to avoid the entire email system as we know it and Xero are registering every business unless you opt out by 13th November – and it’s included in our Bookkeeping courses.
Is this a new closed network that eliminates any invoice and bill paying spam? Yes, pretty much.
I remember teaching people how to use email when it first arrived in our lives in the late 1990’s and it is now the most common way to “authenticate” yourself as a real person.
It is also one of the most common ways to be scammed, spammed and phished!
I first wrote about PEPPOL when the Australian Government announced that they were adoption it – yes, it’s an Australian Government initiative, not a Xero Initiative.
PEPPOL is the mechanism whereby you can get your invoice directly into the software of your client and I think it’s great.
Someone made contact with me recently and told me about an opportunity where “I could make an obscene amount of money. Does that interest you too?”
This persons problem is that the link to his website didn’t even work!
Who makes an obscene amount of money?
Continue reading Do you want to earn an obscene amount of money?
EzyLearn has been an online training company for Office Admin and Business Admin courses since the Internet appeared and geez I could tell you some stories about what I’ve seen.
Something frustrating is happening at the moment and it pits the developing countries again rich countries like Australia.
If you’re reading this because you received an email notification then you’re a subscriber to our blog – WELCOME!
We manage this list using MailChimp because it helps us to be compliant for AntiSPAM requirements but it doesn’t stop people entering all sorts of information into our “Lead Capture Pages”.
PS. Did you know that QuickBooks Online owner, Intuit, now owns MailChimp?
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Continue reading I wish you could see this
People are interesting aren’t they?
I recall when we opened our first Sydney training centre how I took people through a needs analysis to determine what they knew and didn’t know. I could quickly see the difference between what people say and what they do.
We were doing most of the training for clients of Commonwealth Rehab Services when the Internet was in it’s infancy and lots of people were learning about how to send an email!
Continue reading I’ve never actually done it
This website page answers 99% of students questions about online MYOB courses and certification. It has evolved as we’ve added content and support services so it’s pretty thorough.
The answers to these questions have become a little more complex since MYOB created separate versions of their software:
The Bookkeeping Academy MYOB course combination includes training and support for both of these versions.
See the most common questions students ask us.
Continue reading What most students ask about MYOB 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.
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?
Unless you’re a tradie with a Commercial “PowerPass” account with Bunnings you probably wouldn’t know about their fantastic system of keeping track of all your tax invoices.
It’s actually quite easy to get a PowerPass account and it’s very similar to using Flybuys. You go and buy all the things you need – like I did to erect the garden shed in our Job tracking and Projects case study for the MYOB and Xero Courses – and scan your card when you pay. You get a discount and your tax invoice is recorded in the Bunnings PowerPass system.
You just log into the PowerPass admin area and EVERY SINGLE invoice is available to you there!
Xero made a big deal about their Hubdoc purchase and how it was included for all users when they increased their monthly subscriptions by $2 in 2019.
This was the start of what seems to be an ongoing increase in the monthly subscription price for Xero. Xero appears to come across like a money hungry landlord that has you hooked on their software and wants to see how much they can extract from you.
It’s a big job to change accounting programs and like many software publishers Xero need to increase their subscription rate or earn more money by selling addons that they own – or they can charge a per employee rate for payroll services!
If you are starting a new business or switching back to MYOB Business from Xero learn how to use MYOB Business online with us.
If you are looking for work you are best to learn both version of MYOB: AccountRight and MYOB Business. They are available in our MYOB & Xero Bookkeeping Course Bundles.
I don’t think I’ve spent much time mentioning how many sample files you get when you enrol into the Excel Complete Microsoft Excel Course Package.
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 has struggled for a long time against Xero but now seems to be in a sweet spot for price vs features.
MYOB is used by more than 1,000,000 users in Australia so it is a very good skill to have if you are looking for bookkeeping jobs or business admin jobs.
When we started delivering MYOB courses in a classroom in Dee Why in the late 1990’s I realised early that learning bookkeeping skills is best to do one step at a time. When I say 1 step I mean in training sessions that last no more than about 2-3 hours.
That’s why we created Micro courses in MYOB.
Visit the MYOB Training Course information page and see each of these different skill levels. You’ll see that it is based on the case studies I’ve written recently about like Flockana Cafe and Trim and Styles Hairdressing Salon.
See the MYOB Courses separately
MYOB costs less than Xero but now have similar features and that makes it an attractive choice of accounting software.
Xero on the other hand are constantly increasing their monthly subscriptions and that has caused a bit of an up cry for some users.
Bookkeeping Academy course packages are discounted courses which include MYOB & Xero Courses as well as combinations of Xero and Microsoft Excel.
Explore the Bookkeeping Academy courses and current specials.
I wrote about the $600 garden shed that blew out to a $4000 shed and our QuickBooks, MYOB and Xero Courses to manage Job Tracking and Projects recently.
I’m now pleased to announce that you can buy the Xero Projects Course Workbook separately for immediate download.
This rounds out all of our Xero Course WORKBOOKS which are now available separately and are a great way to learn Xero cheaply.
