STP stands for Single Touch Payroll and is an initiative aimed at making the payment of superannuation and other entitlements occur at the same time that wages are paid.
Single Touch Payroll enables employers to integrate payments directly to employees super accounts via information that is entered at the setup and configuration stage of setting up a new employee.
Now employees have less chance of not being paid their superannuation entitlements by small AND large businesses that go into receivership or become bankrupt because they are paid at the same time as wages.
One reason I love online training and how it offers exceptional value for students who are looking for work as well a those who are currently working is that they can ask questions and have them answered using EzyLearn ANSWERS.
We’ve been inundated with questions about STP now that it is mandatory for small businesses with 1-9 employees – unless you’re a closely-held employee.
Is that you? Are you closely held? Here are
some providers of FREE STP software,
great software features (like invoice signing), and
links to the ATO website where you can dig deeper.
I RECENTLY HAD the pleasure of visiting the Reckon head office in Sydney to learn more about their new Reckon One product — and it’s quite a compelling offer.
To start with, Reckon, a listed company, was not allowed to sell its accounting practice management software (APS) to its competitor, MYOB, because Xero HQ wasn’t much chop.
Yes, that’s right, Xero HQ was deemed so “insufficient and unsophisticated” that it wasn’t viewed by the ACCC as offering any competition in this marketplace whatsoever and therefore they wouldn’t allow MYOB to hold the monopoly.
This made me, and no doubt, many others, realise just how powerful Reckon could be in the online accounting market if it had the right software offer — and now it does.
MYOB Essentials seems to tick the boxes for most small businesses
Our MYOB Essentials course seems to cater to small business for the following reasons:
It enables businesses to keep track of quotes and convert them to sales invoices
It includes bank feeds for faster, more accurate and less stressful end of month/quarter reporting
You can work out the allocation of GST paid and received for quicker BAS reports
Included is Payroll to manage the sometimes complex compliance requirements faced by small businesses
And here’s an excerpt from the MYOB Essentials website:
MYOB Essentials has a well-placed price
MYOB also seem to have the pricing at just the right level to not hurt the wallet of small business owners. Xero is now powering ahead with constant features updates (and that puts regular pressure on us to continually create Xero Course updates — which we LOVE doing!) to justify a higher price as they hurtle along on their journey of being a quasi-ERP system using integrated apps in their marketplace.
Pricing as of 24 February 2018
QuickBooks Online, on the other hand, use an ongoing cheap price special offer to attract new users and use an Australian-based payroll services provided to provide very sophisticated advanced payroll features while keeping the total price low.
Current MYOB training course students receive MYOB Essentials Courses FREE
When I first took EzyLearn online in 2006 it was a huge change in my life and I’ve always been grateful to every student who has chosen EzyLearn to do online training. I’m always looking for ways to help them learn more, do more and achieve better results in their career, business and life goals.
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My commitment to continuing to keep MYOB Essentials courses and MYOB Accountright Course updated has never wavered.
Quickbooks is gaining traction in the Australian marketplace.
I’m a fan of QuickBooks as the functionality is excellent and the cost of the software is still low. I’m really pleased to announce that you can now enrol in our QuickBooks Online Daily Transactions Course — but does QuickBooks fulfil Australian legal obligations to be SuperStream compliant?
The background is that from July 1 this year, all Australian businesses with fewer than 20 employees were required, by law, to be SuperStream compliant.
SuperStream is a government initiative to improve the efficiency of Australia’s superannuation system, namely by making superannuation a totally electronic process.
Most cloud-accounting packages that have been developed for the Australian market (such as major applications, like MYOB, Xero, Reckon and so forth, but not smaller apps like Zoho or QuickBooks, which can be used in Australia but don’t interface well with Australian tax procedures) are now all SuperStream compliant, with one exception: QuickBooks. Continue reading QuickBooks Isn’t SuperStream Compliant, But It Doesn’t Matter!
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