Bookkeepers and Mobile Bookkeeping Services

Received a scam email today, which on close inspection is a fake Domain Registration – laid out to look like it’s a genuine demand for Payment.

This Notice for: WWW.YO2GO.COM will expire on October 12,2011 Act today!

That’s what raised our suspicions – the expiry date. Quickly checking on whois we find that the domain is not due for renewal until mid next year.

Even the “small print” seems genuine:

By accepting this offer, you agree not to hold DS liable for any part. Note that THIS IS NOT A BILL. This is a solicitation. You are under no obligation to pay the amounts stated unless you accept this offer. The information in this letter contains confidential and/or legally privileged information from the notification processing department of the DS. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) named above. There is no pre-existing relationship between DS and the domain mentioned above. This notice is not in any part associated with a continuation of services for domain registration. Search engine submission is an optional service that you can use as a part of your website optimization and alone may not increase the traffic to your site. If you do not wish to receive further updates from DS send an email to unsubscribe@dssubmissions.com and in the subject line only put remove to unsubscribe. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents for this letter is strictly prohibited. * 100% satisfaction guaranteed, you may request a refund within 30 days.

They make it so easy to pay
Payment by Credit Card
PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN BY FAX: 1-310-579-8655

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You’ve been warned – It’s a hoax – ignore it

How’s your Gold Coast Bookkeeping score? One down and three to go!

When we see bookkeeping clients around the Gold Coast, you wonder how they’ve managed to get where they’ve got to. On simple bookkeeping solution is to sweep it all under the carpet and hope that all your bookkeeping worries go away.

Out of sight, out of mind. This methodology works fine until one of your staff complains that their paydidn’t go through. Or you have a supplier for your Gold Coast business on the phone chasing up payments.

Then the ATO wants their share of the action. So you take all the paperwork home one night and stayup into the wee hours of the moring trying to think how all this bookkeeping stuff happens, and what did youdo the last quater to get the BAS lodged.

If you’re like so many Gold Coast businesses, you’ve probably already spent the BAS money, and you’re waiting on a big payment from a reliable customer who alwyas pays their bills – eventually.

Meanwhile there’s the pending gloom of Christmas presents looming, and you’re wondering f you’ve finished off paying all the debts from last Christmas.

The good news is that our Gold Coast bookkeeping team can come in and setup some bookkeeping systems to streamline the paperwork for your office. We can even help you get this first quater BAS out of the way, and so there’ll be one down, and three to go!

If you’re having trouble with the bookkeeping for your Gold Coast business, that may be a good enough reason to outsource to a Gold Coast bookkeeper.

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Whether you like it or not, as a business owner or as an entrepreneur, you need to document all income and expenses for tax purposes.

Good bookkeeping helps you to track your finances and make sure that you are not losing money. Here are six reasons to outsource your bookkeeping:

1) Reduce your workload
The first benefit is decreasing your work load, and instead of doing the book work yourself, you can have someone do your bookkeeping.

2) Outsourcing bookkeeping services is cost effective
Outsourcing bookkeeping services for your Gold Coast business is much more
cost effective than having your own bookkeeper in the office. You’ll save more money for your business or minimize your overhead cost.

3) Dangers of DIY Bookkeeping
DIY bookkeeping can be time consuming, and you can soon get overloaded with book keeping work taking time away from your business.

4) Outsource Bookkeeping To Save Time and Money
Outsourcing to professional bookkeepers will not only save you a lot of time and money, but it will also increase the efficiency of your business and the way you run it.

5) Run a Smoother Operation
By outsourcing your bookeeping it will help you run your business much smoother, and you can be sure that it will be much cheaper to outsource it than having an in-house book keeper.

Start saving money and run your business more efficiently by outsourcing book keeping for your Gold Coast small business.

You may have heard of financial window dressing, or cooking the books. It seems to be a skill that governments have mastered at all levels, from local through to Federal governments

Financial window dressing is where financial managers do certain things to increase or decrease net income that’s recorded in the year. They shuffle figures around to change the true picture of what is going on with the financials.

In the corporate world this sort of activity is known as [Read more →]

There’s been a recent threat to Apple Macs, so be aware that you may be lured into downloading a virus.

Until recently Mac users were realtively safe from all the viruses and malware that plague PC users.

That has changed with a phishing scam that targets Mac users by redirecting you to a website saying your computer is infected. You are then asked to download anti-virus software to fix the virus, and it’s this software that is actually a piece of malware.

Apple advise that the goal is to get the user’s credit card information for fraudulent purposes. SO watch out for MacDefender, MacProtector and MacSecurity.

Until Apple completes theire new Mac OS X update to remove the malware you’ll have to follow these staeps:

1. Go the Utilities folder, in the applications folder, and then launch the Activity Monitor.
2. In the pop-up menu in the upper right corner, choose “all processes”.
3. Under the process name heading, look for the titles “MacDefender”, “MacProtector” or “MacSecurity”.
4. Then, click the “quit process” button, select quit, and then quit the activity monitor application. Then, open the applications folder.
5. Locate the malware, and then drag it to the trash.

You can create more work for yourselves, or contact our Gold Coast bookkeepers to solve your MYOB problem.

The day before Easter we get a call from a Burleigh client who’s having trouble importing card files from one data file to another.

Acccording to MYOB it should be a very straight forward process to simply export the card files from one company file, and then import those same card files into another company file.

However, all their addresses just disappeared! After some investigation, and going back through the process, we discovered that the clients had missed a few steps and consequently they did not achieve the resultd that they had hoped for,

You can try to take short cuts and save yourself some money, which will often result in creating more work for yourselves, or contact our Gold Coast bookkeepers to solve your MYOB problems.

Why is it that when the phone rings, it’s a telemarketer asking if that’s Gold Coast bookkeeping, and then enquiring about our health?

Perhaps there’s a Queensland Government directive from the health minister to ensure that all telemarketers enquire about the health of their potential victims [Read more →]

It’s not uncommon for our Gold Coast bookkeepers to be working On-Site at a client’s house. [Read more →]

The battle against Allconnec continues

There’s a “Walk for Water” being held on Sunday 03 April, 15:00 – 18:00

Location North Burliegh Surf Lifesaving Club
Gold Coast, Australia

Organised by:
Queensland Fights For Water Rights

We’re all invited to “Walk for YOUR Water” on Sunday the 3rd April from North Burleigh to South Burleigh to spread the word through the community. Come and join us, bring the family, friends, kids and pets and join us in this beautiful part of world as we peacefully walk for our water.

There’s so much propaganda coming out of Canberra these days

Even the ABC has very biased reporting in favour of miss JuLIAR and Queen Anna

Following the NSW election results Our Queen Bee should start packing – With all her TV/ Media appearances, she should be fine for a career in the “Infotainment” Business

Here’s a comment on Facebook, by Kate Greenhalgh

I’ve been talking to friends and family members lately. They tell me business is really slowing down everywhere in retail, construction, and manufacturing on the GC.

I hope not though….

So do we, Kate