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Planday or Plan a Week – Rostering, Attendance and Annual Leave – Xero or not? Attn: New Workforce Management Case Study in Production

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Xero is well known for purchasing apps which integrate with it and provide vertical integration. The best known acquisition in recent years is the purchase of Hubdoc for receipt capture. This made Xero compete directly with some of the other companies who’ve been doing this for a while like Dext (formerly Receipt Bank) and AutoEntry. 

Well they’ve done it again in the purchase this year of Planday in Europe for staff rostering, attendance and reporting. But how will they compete with QuickBooks Online and KeyPay?

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Xero Learn. Xero software offered for $6 per month. Why are businesses paying $60+ NEW: RESUME REVIEW SERVICE

It’s interesting and exciting that Xero now offer their Xero Learn service to training course publishers like EzyLearn for $6 per month. This ongoing access to Xero Accounting software seemed exciting at first but then I realised that it’s just accounting software! AND it’s just for training! AND 30 days is MORE than enough per case study!

Most students don’t want to access Xero accounting software forever. Even business owners don’t really want to pay an ongoing fee for their accounting software – they want something else..

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Can you lose your job because of Microsoft’s productivity police?

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Are you only using 10% of Microsoft Office? Are you taking 2 hours to do something that can actually be done in 30 minutes? Microsoft Office software had a feature that could identify your productivity score in reports to managers. 

The technology was designed as a sales tool for Microsoft to help identify software that could be utilised better at Microsoft corporate clients but it unveiled a whole privacy issue.

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Is Xero the software of choice for real estate property managers

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I was reading some recent announcements from Xero as they try to displace Sage as the small business accounting software of choice in the United Kingdom and notice some announcements they have about how Xero is a great tool for property management. 

It was an eye opener because it shows how aggressive they are against MYOB by quoting a client publicly who converted from MYOB to Xero. They didn’t mention that Re-Leased software also has an integration with QuickBooks Online – but why would they? Here’s what they wrote..

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How my 7 year old son learnt about credit risk and how that can help tradies

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My 7 year old son lent me $5 (which I then lent to his 12 year old brother) and then he lent his brother a further $10 directly so the older brother could buy something he really wanted at the time. Is it getting complicated already!?

This lending happened over a month ago and a conflict is brewing over the $10 he lent to the 12 year old because it was underwritten by his pocket money which had not been paid at the time. 

So simple isn’t it. All this credit offered and accepted and it seems less relevant because it relates to my kids but these lessons last a lifetime so it’s important to explain credit risk and recourse. Continue reading How my 7 year old son learnt about credit risk and how that can help tradies

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Creating the Xero & MYOB Course Training Workbooks

EzyLearn Online Course Training Manuals and Workbooks for MYOB, Xero, Excel, Office, Word, QuickBooks Online

OUR HARDCOPY COURSE workbooks are the written foundation of all our online training courses. Sometimes these workbooks start as little more than a list of transactions. We then create the training course outline and film the breakdown of this in a series of brief, easy to absorb videos.

The Xero Advanced Certificate Training course workbook includes exercises and screenshots based on 6 months worth of financials for a business startup and you can refer to the workbook as an aid while you’re viewing the videos.

They’re also great to read over as an after-course resource or wherever you’re not using the internet. But, how do we create them?

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ATTN: Online Business Course FREE with Xero, MYOB, Excel & Bookkeeping Academy Training Course Packages

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Online Businesses Courses are coming to our FREE Student Inclusions and they’re aimed at helping you work better online from home. 

We made the move online a long time ago and with it came great benefits but it wasn’t a simple case of doing the same thing we did in our Sydney training centres! We had to deal with the loneliness and disconnection associated with not being in an office with others!

Our new, updated online business courses are designed to give you tools to be confident doing your work online.

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Is Xero Certification Valuable for Job Seekers or Contract Bookkeepers?

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Xero Certification is designed for contract bookkeepers to increase the number of customers who use and support the software. 

Like all “partner” programs offered by software vendors including MYOB and Intuit QuickBooks the purpose of these programs is to increase their “channel to market” but it may not always suit every student.

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EzyLearn Course Refresher Access Membership

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Extend Your Online Course Access

The Course Refresher Access membership is part of the Career Academy of EzyLearn and is designed to give students the best value online learning experience.

Rather than enrol into your courses again and pay the extra courses fees you can now achieve this same results using an EzyLearn Course Refresher Access Membership – no matter how many courses you’ve enrolled into. If you have enrolled in one of the Bookkeeping Academy or Microsoft Office Academy packages this membership will give you ongoing access and support to every course in those packages!

EzyLearn online short courses can be completed within 2-3 weeks but many students use our online courses as a resource after their course is completed.

With the EzyLearn Career Course Access Membership you get continued access to every single course you’ve enrolled into since 2013 for one annual fee!

Becoming a member is the cheapest way of extending your course access a further 12 months.

Online Software programs and apps change all the time now that it is created in a dynamic and fast changing development environment. That means we need to keep maintaining and updating our training course content – you get access to those changes and updates as a member.

Learn more about EzyLearn’s Updates and Additions Policy.

Get Ongoing Student Support

Xero, MYOB & Quickbooks Online are accounting programs in the cloud and because they are now based on a subscription model these changes occur constantly and your software is now updated regularly, often whether you want to update or not.

Course Refresher Access Membership gives you ongoing online course access as well as ongoing knowledge support of the training materials and new content we create as part of each package you’ve enrolled into.

As a member you receive ongoing support from our team on all the course content you’ve already enrolled into as long as you are a member but you can cancel when you no longer need it.

Learn more about how Ezylearn courses work and how your learning is supported

Ask questions on topics that are NOT included in the courses

EzyLearn ANSWERS is a program we launched to help guide our training development based on the needs of our students. Student members use Ezylearn training courses for lots of different reasons, including:

  • employees to upskill and fill out gaps in their knowledge for their current jobs,
  • job seekers to increase their confidence to apply for and get jobs,
  • corporate managers to ensure their staff are using productive features of the software
  • business owners who want their staff to have a solid understanding of how to use their business software

Our courses are designed based on real world scenarios and the questions we receive via EzyLearn ANSWERS helps us constantly improve.

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How do you feel about learning something new?

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Some people love learning new things other people not so much but whether you enjoy it or not it’s frustrating and challenging so you have to keep the end goal in mind!

We’re exploring new technology every month and my latest challenge involves some very technical tasks relating to VoIP telephony for our business phone systems. In the end I know it’s going to be worth it.

If you need to upskill to work remotely from home it’s a great time to learn how to use MYOB Essentials, Xero Accounting & QuickBooks Online. If you are applying for the many government jobs that are available you’ll need data entry and Microsoft Office Essentials skills. Get some of these skills for FREE!

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Xero Accounting to Excel Spreadsheets to MailChimp & Email Marketing

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There’s new content in our Advanced Microsoft Excel Course about Excel Macros that automate the reformatting of database information, exported from Xero Accounting so it can easily be imported into MailChimp for email marketing.

If any of these words don’t make sense to you, you need to upskill to get up to speed because this terminology is becoming common in most workplaces.  

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Learning Xero Will Help You Run An Online Business

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Let’s face it, when you can manage your finances from anywhere, using your phone to scan receipts and Xero Accounting to code them and store them in the cloud one of the hardest parts of managing a business is taken care of. 

We’ve all been able to call, text and email from our mobile phones and use online marketing tools like Google Ads and Facebook for social media so when you finally get your back office tasks migrated to the cloud it’s easy right? Well, that’s what the marketing hype says anyway, but things aren’t that rosy really, are they? Continue reading Learning Xero Will Help You Run An Online Business

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Buying an Online Business: What is it worth?

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I’ve been speaking to an ex-corporate employee from the US lately and we were talking about buying an online business. It’s something that I have spoken with people about a lot but it seems to be more relevant now that we’re all stuck at home!

The common words online business buyers and sellers use are “drop shipping”, “affiliate marketing”, and “advertising revenue” and they are synonymous with Google and Amazon. It’s little wonder these companies continue to grow during the Covid19 crisis, but there is lots more to consider.

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Data Entry and Microsoft Office Skills: Important for NSW Police Call Centre Work and Virtual Assistants

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I was speaking with someone who recently applied for call centre work for NSW Police and they were surprised at how much of the testing performed at the group interviews required data entry and Microsoft Excel skills.

Microsoft Office skills are important to get office support or admin jobs but even more so now that employees are working remotely from home using their computer. If you need help on that front we offer FREE data entry and absolute beginner level skills in Word and Excel.

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ALERT: Reckon One Training Course PRE-Launch SPECIAL

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It was in 2018 that I last wrote about Reckon One and how some of their software was far superior to Xero according to the ACCC. With competing priorities and updating our MYOB, Xero and QuickBooks course materials being our first priority Sage One and Reckon One Daily Transactions training course for tradies is now almost complete.

Reckon works with AutoEntry for receipt capture and their accounting software is also STP Payroll compliant so it’s a perfect low-cost accounting program for micro and small businesses like tradies but they’re missing one important feature..

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