Business Activity Statements (BAS), for business owners reporting quarterly, are due on 28 October 2009.
For many small business owners and especially for their bookkeepers, October is always a busy time of year, as everyone cranks up for Christmas. There’s also Indy ( Super GP), Schoolies, and other frivolities to attract tourists to lure away hard-earned cash.
October BAS, Indy, Schoolies and Christmas Decorations
With a renewed confidence in retail spending, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers are preparing for what is traditionally a spending season on the Gold Coast.
There’s Christmas decorations already appearing in Djs. As bookkeepers, we’ve seen that cash flow has certainly tightened up in the economy. We’ve noticed that invoice payments are being dragged out longer and longer, as suppliers wait to be paid by customers, and service providers wait to be paid by their clients
Desperate business owners want our help with their MYOB and Quickbooks files
The phone’s been ringing as desperate business owners in a panic wanting help with their MYOB and Quickbooks files. In most cases, they can simply email us the files and we’ll have a look at their reporting and can generally work out where the problems are within a short time
One lady contacted us in a panic wanting someone to enter 1000 invoices into their Quickbooks data files and then prepare the BAS for this quarter. They run a roofiing insulation company, sponsored by us, the tax payer, until Kevin Rudd realises that the money-tree policy he has will soon stop bearing fruit.
Fortunately we happened to have a vacancy in our calendar as one of our regular clients has now sold the business.
As a small business owner we encourage you to focus on what you do best, and we’ll do the rest – contact our Gold Coast bookkeeping service today for help with your BAS
