Bookkeepers and Mobile Bookkeeping Services

When a client conntacted us for some Quickbooks training, we were wondering exactly what help she needed.

Have you ever met someone who knows it all, and no matter what you do or say, they cannot be helped?

Well, you must have referred her to us, because this girl told us that she’s self taught, knows a little about bookkeeping, but knows everything that she needs to know about using Quickbooks.

So we are still trying to work out why she contacted us wanting some Quickbooks training. She advised that her bookkeeper helps her when she gets stuck, though the bookkeeper does not use Quickbooks, only MYOB.

We explained that we could review the Quickbooks data file and see if she is really doing everything correctly, but she told us the accountant has recently conducted a company audit.

What help do you need with Quickbooks?

“I just want basic training,” she replied. When someone knows it all, or thinks they know it all, the whole exercise seems totally pointless. We would be wasting our time, because she already knows it all, and she’d be wasting her time because we wouldn’t be able to teach her anything she doesn’t already know about Quickbooks.

It’s like asking Craig Lowndes to teach you how to drive, and telling him you already know everything about driving.

Here’s the thing: We use Quickbooks everyday of the week, we use different versions, with different clients, and come across all sorts of situations that people have created.

We’ve trained many people all around the country in how to use Quickbooks, withone-on-one Quickbooks training sessions.

This girl uses Quickbooks a few hours a week for one company and she’s self taught.

So why should we be surprised that she knows everything and we can’t teach her anything new about how to use Quickbooks?

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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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
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2) Outsourcing bookkeeping services is cost effective
Outsourcing bookkeeping services for your Gold Coast business is much more
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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.

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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.

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