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How Are You Managing Rostering, Timesheet, Wages, PAYG, Super?

Manual Wages book and timesheet from the 1890's Cork City Archive - PAYG Super rosteringYou could use a wages book

I RECENTLY SPOKE WITH the owner of a hairdressing salon who’s been in business for over 18 years (at various different businesses). This woman has ALWAYS used a manual wages timesheet system.

Our team are exploring typical rosters and problems which occur in the payroll processing, and as such, we’re also exploring all the different ways that wages are managed.

The manual wage processing that this hairdressing salon owner uses is very similar to this timesheet tracking system from the late 1890’s and she seems to be quite efficient at it. When I explore the process she uses I can see why business owners would prefer not to spend the money, but if things got busy or tricky and staff numbers are high and hours varied, then a computerised system is definitely more “systemised”.

Computerised Time Sheet Software

I wrote recently about popular time-tracking apps for Xero (also QuickBooks Online) and how they help you manage the time that you spend on various work projects as a professional service provider (like website design, marketing and even bookkeeping) and in the next couple weeks we’re going to explore time sheet management software like Tsheets and Deputy. Not only are they good for scheduling your staff but they can help you keep track of when they sign on and sign off for work.

I was recently talking with someone who uses Deputy as an employee and they described the experience like signing in on a bundy clock! The particular person I spoke to didn’t enjoy the regimen of doing it but it makes perfect sense from the business owners perspective so they have a very tight record of time worked.

Announcement: MYOB Payroll Course recently beefed up

EzyLearn has beefed up our MYOB Payroll online training courseIf you’re an existing EzyLearn student who is interested in learning more about the more advanced, more complex areas of Payroll you’ll be pleased to learn that we’ve created and implemented the Advanced Payroll Course (Level 2) into the MYOB AccountRight Payroll Course package.

Here are the topics included:

  • Set Up Timesheet Preferences
  • Edit an Existing Super Payroll Category
  • Create a New Super Payroll Category
  • Add a New Payroll Category
  • Edit Employment Classifications to Suit the Business
  • Create Casual & permanent Employee in MYOB
  • Enter Timesheets in MYOB
  • Process a Pay Run
  • Import Timesheets
  • Process Payroll with Personal Leave included
  • Create a New Deduction Payroll Category
  • View Employee Leave Accrued
  • Process Pay including Annual Leave
  • Run a Payroll Entitlements Report
  • Run a Payroll Journal Report
  • Produce a Balance Sheet
  • Record your Bank Details
  • Record Employee Bank Details
  • Process a Pay Run
  • Create an Electronic Payment File
  • Process Final Pay

Stay tuned for updates and additions of advanced MYOB, Xero and Quickbooks training content in the coming announcements.

Employer Recognised & Trusted Course

Employer Recognised and Trusted Online Excel, Word, Office, MYOB, Xero, QuickBooks Online Training CoursesI was going through some enrolments from recent and past students with our marketing team and realised we’ve helped thousands of students from hundreds of different companies large and small, government, not-for-profit and industry organisations which help students retrain and up-skill if they are injured at work. That’s not to mention the thousands of students who do one of our courses to help them in their career advancement or to find a job.

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Take a look as some of the employers who recognise and trust EzyLearn as their first choice for bookkeeping and office admin courses.

PS. I have some exciting new additions to announce from Ross Miller regarding the Workface Career Academy!

Announcement: EzyLearn LIFELONG Learning Hub is NOW LIVE!

EzyLearn LIFELONG Learning Hub Logo Excel, Xero, MYOB, QuickBooksEvery EzyLearn student now has a student account FOR LIFE!

OK, before I continue let me just clarify: If you’ve only signed up for 12 months’ course access to, say, the Xero Beginners’ Certificate Courses, then you get access to those courses for 12 months. If you sign up for LIFETIME Course Access to the Xero COMPLETE Training Course package you get Lifetime Course Access to all the Xero courses PLUS Updates and Additions.

 

[box type=”info”] So, what does a student account for LIFE really mean?[/box]

 

When you enrol into an online training course with EzyLearn, we create a student account with a username and password so you can then log in and proceed to your training courses. A couple years ago we introduced FREE Student Inclusions as a way of giving EzyLearn students more reason to expand their knowledge and learn new things. Today’s announcement is to let you know that you get access to these free courses for LIFE!

Not just free courses, but new course samples

Free student inclusions is one reason to enrol with EzyLearn but the new LIFELONG Learning Hub will give you so much more and here’s an example.

We currently have a special offer for any new student enrolling into any of our courses where you get access to the

All of this is accessible from the LIFELONG Learning Hub right now — to everyone who has enrolled into an EzyLearn course since January 2013 — EVERYONE!

From here, all you need do is login with your student account and go to the LIFELONG Learning Hub.

 

The Perfect Job; the Ideal Employee

And the online training to help you get there

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Do you have the skills needed to be the perfect office manager, administrative or executive assistant?

I WAS BROWSING THROUGH my contacts on LinkedIn and found an advertisement by a company that was looking to hire people.

They were in the AI (Artificial Intelligence) space and their headquarters were in Europe.

However, the ad looked like it could be for any company including trades, professional services etc.

Here’s what the ad contained:

Executive Assistant / Office Manager

Overview

The Executive Assistant / Office Manager will be primarily responsible for helping to keep everyone (and everything) working at peak performance. We’re a growing company, and there will be new and interesting challenges every day. Ideal candidates are curious and interested in learning more about what we do, and always interested in learning new skills and taking on new challenges.

Tasks

  • Manage all aspects of office administration
  • Coordinate team schedules and events
  • Manage executive schedules
  • Handle payment of invoices and associated bookkeeping
  • Order supplies and equipment
  • Arrange travel

Skills

Required

  • Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Ability to work with minimum supervision, prioritizing work as needed
  • Strong knowledge of office applications, including Word, Powerpoint, and Excel

The training you need

Apart from the soft skills like good time management, communications, speaking and writing the software skills you can learn to apply for this job are:

Microsoft Office Applications:

Office Admin and Bookkeeping:

Organisational and Time Management:

My thoughts on this ad?

Why I’m sharing this ad is that I reckon it encapsulates “the perfect” administrative or executive assistant, or office manager. What I mean is that anybody possessing all the skills and capabilities listed above would be well qualified for almost any job in this area — for pretty much any type of company.

And they wouldn’t be limited to any particular industry either. Any intelligent person who is a quick learner would be able to pick up the nuances for various different industries and apply their skills as necessary.

Online courses to help you

The other positive thing about this ad is that it reinforces the fact that so many of our EzyLearn online training courses are geared towards people who want to do office administrative-type roles or office management positions. They are also perfect for people wanting to run their own business in any industry.

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At EzyLearn we offer online training courses to help you up-skill and find employment. Choose from our range of cloud-based online accounting software courses, to business start up and management courses, to marketing and sales courses, or update and further your skills in a range of Microsoft Office programs (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) or social media and WordPress web design).