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MYOB Training Course: Dedicated video tutorial server

Are you happy with your current skills?

Do you like to learn new things?

We’re the same. We love to come into contact with new software and internet technology and anything that will help us to remain a market leader in online MYOB training. We also like to receive feedback (positive and negative) from our students so we know what we are doing well and what we can improve on.

Recent feedback has been about the navigation around our online training video tutorials. These videos are full audio visual demonstrations using the software, just like you would expect in a training classroom using a data projector.

With online training video tutorials you can go over our material again and again until you understand it. You can also go over it in the future when you come across a problem you need some help with. Combine it with our step-by-step training exercises and knowledge reviews and you have a complete learning solution.

So, what’s the news?

[box] We’re putting all new content and upgraded training course materials onto a new dedicated video hosting server![/box]

What does this mean?

It means that the videos are hosted on a separate service to the learning course so that both will operate much faster. All new training videos will also have a navigation panel and the ability to scroll through the video to the place you want to be and finally you’ll be able to expand the video so that it takes up your entire screen.

What the video below to see what we mean.

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New MYOB Training Content available for all students

MYOB Training Course Bank Reconciliation Tutorial Screen

If you are enrolled into our online MYOB training course you’re probably aware of our LIFETIME access feature. You might also recall that this feature enables you to log in at any time and have access to any new or updated content that we create.

We’ve just created training video tutorials for our MYOB bank reconciliation course!

The training workbook for the bank reconciliation course contains a project where you can create a new company file from scratch, import an accounts list (Chart of Accounts), import transaction journals and then enter your own transactions to complete a bank reconciliation. It’s a very satisfying feeling!

Here is a list of the 9 new training videos we created. If you are a student you can simply click on each video, sign-in and start watching.

  • Section 1 Video 1 – Export and Import using MYOB
  • Section 1 Video 2 – Working with Read Only MYOB data files
  • Section 1 Video 3 – Exporting Accounts List and Transaction Journals
  • Section 1 Video 4 – Exploring Exported MYOB Accounts list Data
  • Section 1 Video 5 – Create a new training company datafile
  • Section 1 Video 6 – Importing an accounts list into a new MYOB data file
  • Section 1 Video 7 – Importing the Transaction Journals into a new MYOB data file
  • Section 1 Video 8 – Deleting duplicate accounts and changing linked accounts
  • Section 1 Video 9 – Setting Linked Accounts for GST
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    As part of our continuous improvement process we are now hosting our videos on a dedicated video hosting platform and the videos can now be paused and played and you can enable them to take up the full screen for easier viewing.

    Happy Learning!

    To learn more about our online MYOB training course and the fantastic new features like LIFETIME membership, EzyLearn Q&A and more visit: http://ezylearnonline.com.au/courses/myob-training/

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    MYOB Training Q&A: Printing Cheques using MYOB

    MYOB Training Online - Printing cheques
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    We recently introduced the EzyLearn Q&A service for our MYOB online training course students to give you more specific answers to your MYOB questions. The service is available for existing EzyLearn students only and there is no extra cost for this service. If you are an existing student and you need an answer to an MYOB question please feel free to use the service!

    One of our students in Perth is having some issues printing cheques and the bookkeeper for their organisation is being a little cagey with the information so we jumped in to help.

    In a nutshell you need to make sure that whether you create a cheque from the banking module or the Purchases module, you need to ensure that when your payment is entered that it is NOT marked as printed. So that when you do search for Cheques to be printed the one you want will show up.

    Keep the questions coming and stay tuned to the EzyLearn blog (register to receive them automatically) to see what MYOB Online Training students are looking for.

    If you are an existing student simply follow this link to see the Printing Cheques using MYOB training guide we created to answer the question. Just log in with your student login details.

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    You should now have your certificate

    Iroshini - Online Training CoursesYou may recall that we identified a GAP in our internal resources last week (ie. we needed an extra team member) to help us with the backlog of assessing and issuing of certificates for our online Microsoft Excel and MYOB training courses.

    Well, here she is Iroshini has performed small tasks for us over the last month or so, but she’s now on board to ensure that the results of knowledge reviews are assessed quickly so that you can receive your  certificates faster. The result is you should have your certificate now 🙂

    Our Online MYOB Training Course has proven to be extremely popular and along with the announcement of Iroshini’s arrival we want you to know that we are currently building our MYOB Payroll course to include more detailed information about the Payroll liability accounts and how to create and setup a new employee, and create the pay slips.

    All of this new content will be available for existing students at no extra charge as part of our LIFETIME Membership offer. Stay tuned also for announcements about our new Microsoft Excel Online training materials… We have some new content in our advanced Microsoft Excel courses, some new knowledge reviews and updated training workbooks.

     

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    MYOB Training Course: We’ve identified problems

    MYOB online training course knowledge reviewsDon’t be alarmed, but we have identified problems. We’ve conducted some GAP analysis on our processes and realise that it is taking too long for us to assess the results of knowledge reviews.

    There are always ways that we can improve our business and the best way of finding out is by feedback from students who’ve actually completed the course. Like all good businesses we try hard to get better at what we offer and how we offer it and I’ve taken measures to ensure that our assessment issue is rectified immediately!

    Stay tuned for news about an addition to our team to handle student knowledge review assessments for the EzyLearn MYOB Course Certificate. We pride ourselves on having a very popular online MYOB training course that you can enrol into today and start by 5pm the next business day and now we are aiming to bring down the time for completion of assessment so that you can have your course completed, assessed and a certificate issued within 2 weeks. That’s our next goal.

    We’ve had some great feedback from students AND we are also listening to what they think we can improve. Here are some of the comments we’ve received from our MYOB online training students when asked about the best parts of our MYOB course:

    “…goes into fine detail of all aspect of MYOB”

    Sammar Kamar from Victoria

    “Liked the fact that I could know if I got the question right or wrong immediately.”

    Phillip Sayce from Queensland

    “..the convenience of being able to do it in your own time”

    Keira Page from New South Wales

    “It is all really good I couldn’t pick (the best parts) if I tried. I have tried to use MYOB in the past but it never made sense to me. But after doing your course it makes more sense. Thanks”

    Linda Matanovic from Queensland.

    Read what other students have to say about our online MYOB training course.

    The next improvement on our list is adding more detailed content to our Payroll Course. Oh, and you probably might already be aware, but existing students will have access to this new content for no extra charge because of our new LIFETIME student memberships that come with each course.

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    MYOB Online Course Videos — Creating Customer Cards

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    Creating customer cards in MYOB is easy! To enter a new customer, simply click on ‘New’; this will bring up a new window.

    It’s also simple to edit customers here. Say you want to change postal or contact details, simply click on ‘Customer’ and hit ‘Edit’.

    You will note that MYOB gives you a choice in the designation section to enter a company or an individual. All customer entries are stored alphabetically so make sure if you are entering an individual you use their last name first.

    You use the tab key as a shortcut to go through all the fields.

    A handy hint: When a customer has a longer address, such as a unit number or a Suite number, hold the Control Key and press ‘Enter’ for a second line.

    Also, if you have tabbed past a field you need, simply hold the Shift Key and hit the ‘Tab’ key to go up to the field above.

    Video Reference: 501204

    Link for existing students: http://myobcourse.com/elearning/mod/resource/view.php?id=359

    For information about our Online MYOB Training Course and new Lifetime Membership for all students, please visit: www.studymyob.com.au

    Please feel free to send your comments about this video to: sales@ezylearn.com.au

     

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    MYOB online course videos – Accounts list is your chart of accounts

    Even if you have used the MYOB ‘default’ to set accounts details for your company you can still change the account details after entering your Company details. This comes in handy especially if you receive account details after from the company accountant. MYOB allows you to import this new list, just click on import list.

    When selecting the type of business for your company in the Accounts list, MYOB will change the accounts relating to that business accordingly.

     

    Video Reference: 501103

    Link for existing students: http://myobcourse.com/elearning/mod/resource/view.php?id=350

    For information about our Online MYOB Training Course and new lifetime membership for all students please visit: www.studymyob.com.au

    Please feel free to send your comments to us about this video to sales@ezylearn.com.au

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    MYOB online course videos – Company information & 13th period

    Make sure all accounting details are correct in the company details. You will not be able to change any details once entered and saved. So the rule here is check and double check all details are correct.

    Did you know that in MYOB there is a 13th Accounting Period? This is not another month but is an accounting period where you can make any accounting changes if needed.

     

    Video Reference: 501102

    Link for existing students: http://myobcourse.com/elearning/mod/resource/view.php?id=349

    For information about our Online MYOB Training Course and new lifetime membership for all students please visit: www.studymyob.com.au

    Please feel free to send your comments to us about this video to sales@ezylearn.com.au
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    MYOB online course videos – Create New Company File using MYOB

    When setting up a new company in MYOB the only section which is required is the company name. This is handy to know especially when entering a number of companies. Once entered, you can go back and fill in the details.

    Clicking on the next button allows you to go to the next section which makes data entry easier and quicker.

    Video Reference: 501101

    Link for existing students: http://myobcourse.com/elearning/mod/resource/view.php?id=348

    For information about our Online MYOB Training Course and new lifetime membership for all students please visit: www.studymyob.com.au

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    Subscribe for free MYOB hints during June

    I’d like to introduce you to Frankie. She has been working with EzyLearn in an admin capacity and she going through some of our training material and writing a little bit about each video so that we can showcase what we have.

    Every week we are getting fantastic feedback about our online courses and we’ll share some of them with you. Remember if you haven’t tried online learning, our courses come with a money-back guarantee and LIFETIME membership.

    We’ll be releasing some of our MYOB Setup videos to help you setup your own MYOB Accounting company and data file. The videos we’re releasing are part of the training videos that are included in our online MYOB Training Course.

    Remember that our Online MYOB Training Course contains over 120 training videos, 5 hours of continuous instruction, 5 training workbooks that you can print and keep as a reference and knowledge reviews to test what you’ve learnt and guide you in the right direction for incorrect answers. Students who enrol now will also receive free membership to the course for the rest of their working life.

    Visit our website for more information and to enrol: www.studymyob.com.au.

    You can also stay in touch with EzyLearn and what’s going on my liking our new Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/EzyLearn/110111062349216

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    Do you have an MYOB bookkeeping question?

    When we introduce a new service linked to our online training courses we announce it here at the EzyLearn blog. Today we announce the EzyLearn Q&A Service for the MYOB Accounting Course. This service will be rolled out to all online courses over the coming year.

    This is the time of year that forces most MYOB questions to the surface. It’s the time of year when all of a sudden you need to know how to enter a transaction or where to put a value.

    EzyLearn’s online MYOB Training course is popular because the lifetime membership gives you the ability to go over the material as often as you like and when you like. It also gives you access to new material that we create. Businesses vary greatly and the needs of each small business are very different and we want to do something about it for you.

    Our partner program puts us in touch with many people in the accounting, training and bookkeeping sectors and we are introducing  a new trial service called MYOB Q&A. The service is only available for students enrolled into our online MYOB training course and it works a little like this:

    1. Go to any Learning Outline page in the learning site
    2. Look for the MYOB Q&A section on the right
    3. Enter your details, the category of question and type in your question.

    We will do our best to work through student questions with a Certified MYOB consultant to provide you with even deeper knowledge about how to use MYOB.

    See what’s included in our online MYOB training course.

    Enrol into our online MYOB course today and start learning by 5pm the next business day.

    online MYOB training course and support communityUPDATE: This service, available to MYOB, WordPress and Excel students is now called EzyLearn ANSWERS.

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    Online MYOB training for New Zealand students

    We’ve had some inquiries and enrolments from New Zealand students and this blog is to help you understand some fundamental differences between Australian and New Zealand versions.

    The first thing you need to be aware of is that the knowledge review questions used in our MYOB Payroll Introduction (course 505) use the sample company file which comes with the free MYOB Test drive. From discoveries made by our New Zealand students the sample file contains different information in different countries. You need to use the Australian version to get the correct answers.

    This brings another problem, when you try to download the Australian version of the test drive you need to enter a phone number. One of our students entered our telephone number as the contact number and we have no problem with you doing that if you are an EzyLearn student. If we hear something different from MYOB we’ll let you know.

    I should also mention at this point that this might also apply to our students from Canada, China, Korea, UK and other parts of the world.

    If you want to take a look at what students have said about our course click here.

    If you want to receive these updates in your email, subscribe to the EzyLearn blog here: https://ezylearn.com.au/

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    How did you go in the MYOB skills test?

    Answer Stats for MYOB online training course free public skills test

    We recently made a quick MYOB skills test available on our website to coincide with the launch of our full online MYOB training and assessment tools and the result from over 3000 website visitors showed some very interesting information. The average score was 44.74, with the bulk of students receiving between 31-70%.

    Most fascinating was that less than 10% of all attempts managed to get the first two questions right! These questions related to what options are found in the command centres.

    Tests are a great way to highlight learning outcomes of a course while providing links to the exact training material you need to provide the correct answer and our online MYOB training course includes 9 knowledge reviews covering the Day-to-day operations of a business, bank reconciliation (which if completed successfully allows you to complete your BAS in less than 5 minutes) and Payroll Introduction.

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    MYOB Training Course and the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers

    MYOB online training course - Institute_of_Certified_Bookkeepers

    MYOB online training course - Institute_of_Certified_BookkeepersWhen you enrol into our Online MYOB Training Course from today onwards you receive LifeTime access to all training materials to use as resource after your initial training (this also includes new training materials that we create) AND you can become a member of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers at half the normal price.

    We are working hard every day to give you the skills and certification to be a confident MYOB software user plus give you tools to improve your professional profile for business development or career development.

    Take a quick quiz to test your MYOB skills.

    If you are ready to enjoy the benefits of being an EzyLearn student, enrol now online and start by 5pm tomorrow afternoon (next business day).

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    Are MYOB skills good enough to be a bookkeeper?

    MYOB bookkeeper with Cert IV in Bookkeeping

    MYOB bookkeeper with Cert IV in BookkeepingAccounting in the past

    I remember the days when MYOB was a young company called Data Tech Pty Ltd, they were based in Crows Nest and gave trials of their software on floppy disk and videos on how powerful their software was on VHS. It was also an awkward situation if you wanted to become “certified”. Many people learnt how to use the software and offered their services and it wasn’t until you had a couple customers under your belt that you could become certified by MYOB. This scenario is now very different.

    Education businesses around Australia (and New Zealand) now have strict guidelines to follow when they deliver and assess their training (as part of the Cert IV in Training and Assessment) and there’s a whole new official language which includes: Scope of Registration, Units of competency, Learning outcomes, competency mapping, Core subjects, electives, qualifications, subjects etc. The great news is that we are now “mapping” our training material with the outcomes for the Cert IV in Bookkeeping!

    This qualification will be mandatory by 2013 if you plan to perform bookkeeping tasks for a business whether you are an employee, contractor or a small business owner.

    In fact to give you an idea of how specific and focussed this new qualification is here are the electives (based on your desired goal):

    Contract Bookkeeper
    • (FNSICCUS401B) Deliver a professional service to customers
    • (FNSICCUS402B) Maintain customer relationship

    Small Business Owner
    • (FNSICORG510B) Manage own professional development
    • (FNSPRAC501B) Manage and maintain small/medium business operations

    Permanent Paid Bookkeeper
    • (FNSICORG510B) Manage own professional development
    • (FNSICCUS402B) Maintain customer relationship

    Are you a BAS agent?

    You might also be interested to know that “If you provide BAS services for a fee or other reward, you are required by law to be registered as a BAS agent” with the ATO.

    Our offer to students

    We recently announced the Lifetime MYOB course student membership for all students so you can use our learning resources (including updates as they are created) and now we are happy to inform that we are mapping our training material to the desired learning outcomes for the subjects which make up the Cert IV in Bookkeeping. We’ll be working closely with an RTO (Registered Training Organisation) in a VET partnership and we’ll be able to help you get some fundamental MYOB and accounting skills via our online course, PLUS provide you with a pathway to your Certificate IV in Bookkeeping (including assessment and certification).

    Visit out MYOB course website or enrol as a student.

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    How much do you know about MYOB?

    MYOB Quick free skills test and training

    MYOB Quick free skills test and trainingTests are an excellent way to master new skills. If they are created with a learning outcome in mind they force you to answer based on your current knowledge and then provide you with an explanation of what the correct answer is and where you can go to find more.

    We’ve recently updated our online MYOB training course to include over 80 knowledge review questions covering most aspects of operating MYOB software on a day to day basis. For each question we provide you with the correct answer and information about where you can go to review your knowledge and get it right the next time.

    You’re invited to attempt a quick MYOB skills test to see how much you know.