Bookkeeping: Robina Bookkeepers, Gold Coast0415 453 536 – MYOB,Quickbooks, Robina, Varsity Lakes, Reedy Creek and Mudgeeraba

We’ve been on the phone solving bookkeeping problems experienced by small busineses in Robina

Using the experience of our professional bookkeepers, we’re able to solve almost every challenge that is thrown at us on the telephone.

In some cases it’s beneficial to make an on-site visit to ascertain the full extent of the challenges that you may be having with the bookkeeping for your Robina business

Often the problems arise through inaccurate or incorrect keying with the MYOB, Quickbooks or other accounting software

Human errors in data entry can cause business owners unnecessary grief, and often require intense detective work by our Robina bookkeeping team. Contact us for details

For Robina business owners that report their GST obligations quarterly, the next Previous Business Activity Statement is WAS due for lodgement by 28 February 2011.

Did you Miss The BAS Deadline?

If you missed the deadline and need help, then rather than struggle with completing your BAS forms Contact Us TODAY for H E L P

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) recognise that people may be taking annual leave over the Christmas / New Year period , and so they automatically extend the (theoretical) lodgement date for the December quarter from January 28 to February 28

Consequently you’ve already had a month’s extension, so there’ll be a Buckley’s to none chance of a further extension

One wonders what happens to business owners that have lost all their documentation in the devasting floods of Queensland and NSW. You can show your support too the flood victims and donate Online to the SALVATION ARMY Disaster Relief Fund HERE

Need Help with Your BAS??
Completing a Business Activity Statement can be daunting, so if you need help lodging your BAS forms Contact Us TODAY

At the beginning of a new year many small business owners in and around Robina look at setting some goals, and reviewing the state of their business as another year has gone by.

With good record keeping and upto date bookkeeping it’s so much easier to accurately assess the financial progress of your Robina business

Here’s three simple resolutions that you can make and KEEP for your business in 2011:

Get Organised And Keep Organised
A good place to start is by tidying up your desk
Having a clear desk creates a more relaxed environment,so you can begin to have clearer thoughts and ideas.

Many Robina business owners have a cluttered desk because you don’t have a filing system in place – we can help you with that

Good Record Keeping
Keeping your paperwork upto date with regular bookkeeping has many advantages in running a healthy business.

There’s also legal obligations in Australia to keep your business records upto date and in order – they need to then be archived for five years.

You’ll find there’s penalties for not maintaining the required records and for not keeping them for five years. Good record keeping will help you avoid these penalties.

Cash Flow Is the Life Blood!!
Tracking all monies coming in to your business and monies flowing out of your business is the primary reason for having an efficient bookkeeping system.

Cash flow in your business is like blood in your body – Just as a blockage in your arteries can cause a heart attack, so too will your business can die if the cashflow dries up.

Start TODAY with a simple four-step Cash Flow Budget. For help contact our Robina Bookkeeping service TODAY

Seasons Greetings to all our Clients, Friends and Associates of our Robina bookkeeping service

Wishing you a safe, happy and very Merry Christmas as we all look forwrd to a healthy, propserous and wealthy New Year in 2011

The Melbourne Cup is almost always a boost for Robina book-makers, but has little effect on Robina Book-keepers.

Robina Town Centre was like a ghost town this morning – it seems no one was venturing out as the Melbourne Cup either slows down, or closes some Robina businesses

“It should be a national public holiday” said one employee, who was in a two-dollar shop buying some party items for the office luncheon

That’s right, today is the first Tuesday of November, and at 3.00 pm AEST, it seems that Australians everywhere stop for one of the world’s most famous horse races – the Melbourne Cup.

Even in the bank, the TV was tuned to the sports channell, four hours early (just in case the staff missed the beginning of the race)

Melbourne Cup day, even in Robina, at the haert of Australia’s Gold Coast, people ruch down to the local TAB and have a flutter

It seems that most years the only real winners from this horse race are the Government, rubbing their hands together with glee from all the extra tax they’ll receive today – and the Bookmakers – as there’s always short odds

Who are the real losers? Small business owners that feel pressured to “jpoin in the spirit of the race” and hold an office party

Anyone got a calculator handy? How many man hours are lost over this horse race that lasts about three and a half minutes?

During the Second World War, 1942–44 – The Melbourne Cup was run on Saturdays – the government was obviously more sensible in those days and understood about productivity and the importance of small businesses

We’ll look after all your bookkeeping needs – whether you use MYOB or Quickbooks, contact our Robina Bookkeeping services

Have you ever wondered why you should outsource your bookwork to our Robina bookkeeping service?

Do you think your business can’t afford to engage freelance professional bookkeepers?

You’re probably thinking that your business can’t afford to engage freelance professional bookkeepers like our Robina bookkeeping service. That’s the sort of thinking we had the other day when we had some problems with our water supply

“Oh, a plumber will charge too much, we can do it ourselves”. So about three hours later, we were no where closer to fixing the problem – it was a situation we’d not encountered before. So now we are three hours behind schedule and nowhere closer to fixing the problem

So we call out one of our clients who’s a plumber – and the problem is fixed in about three minutes.

Why could the plumber fix the problem so quickly?

• Because he does this sort of work every day.
• He’s got the correct tools to do the job
• He’s come across this problem many times before
• He’s got years of experience

Why the plumber uses our Robina Bookkeeping Service:

• Because we do bookkeeping everyday for different Robina small busineses
• We’ve got the correct tools to do your bookwork
• We’ve come across all sorts of bookkeeping issues and problems in the past
• We’ve got many years of experience and can see efficient and speedy ways to get ontop of your bookwork

We were struggling with the plumbing because we thought we could save a few bucks. We lost time that we can never buy back, we got stressed out over a simple job, and in the end it cost us more than if we’d left it to a professional in the first instance

Smart Robina business operators understand that whilst they may try to do the bookkeeping themselves, they’ve not got as much experience as we do, and they don’t have time to “give it a go” get it wrong, and still have to pay for a professional bookkeeper to come in and pick up the mess.

We save our Robina bookkeeping clients TIME and MONEY so that they can focus on the parts of their business that they do best.

Many business owners in Robina belive they can save themselves time and money by doing their own bookkeeping.

If that was the case, then why would accountants use Robina bookkeeping services? Accountants realise that their time is better spent in using their skills, so they can continue building their business.

For some small business owners who are continually struggling to do their own bookkeeping, it’s as crazy as them trying to do their own dentistry.

You’ve been looking after your teeth all your life, so therefore it seems reasonable that you can do your own dental care.

Does that seem a crazy notion that you wouldn’t use a professional to be your dentist? So why does it seem so crazy that you should outsource your bookkeeping to a professional mobile bookkeeping service such as ours in the Robina area?

Our team of Robina bookeepers are doing bookeeping everyday of the week, using various accounting software packages such as MYOB and Quickbooks. We’ve come across all sorts of crazy bookwork and sets of accounts from all variety of Robina business owners.

We’d go so far as to say that we’ve not come across a small business in the Robina area whose set of books we haven’t been able to fix up, straighten out and balance to the last dollar and cent.

Stop being stressed out right now, and contact us so we can get your books on the right track

Why do the general public accept the fact that companies have been charging, and continue to charge late fees?

Our Robina bookkeeping team always challenge companies that charge late fees, because there is no clearcut evidence to suggest that they are legal

Some small business owners would rather pay the fees, than “go to all the trouble” of challenging the payment.

When you contact the company, often the response is something along the lines of “OK, We’ll refund your late fee just on this occasion, but don’t do it again”

Are they just being sympathetic? Not necessarily

In 2004 the Consumer Action Law Centre in Australia produced a report challenging the legality of these fees:
“In Australia, it is a well-established legal principle that a contractual term which requires one party to a contract to pay the other ‘innocent’ party a sum of money upon a default or break of the contract is enforceable only if it provides for payment of a sum of money that is a genuine pre-estimate of the loss or damage suffered by the innocent party. This is sometimes called a ‘liquidated damages’ term.

“Penalty terms are unenforceable at law.”

There’s a large class action being put together challenging the Banks, and if you do challenge the bank on any late fees, you’ll find that they’ll refund them

This is just another way that our Robina bookkeeping service strives to save our clients money

Many clients that contact our Robina bookkeeping service do not realise that the bookwork can bring oxygen to your business

For many small business owners around Mudgeeraba, Robina and Varsity Lakes, the idea of outsourcing your bookkeeping to a professional Robina bookkeeping service seems like a luxury they cannot afford.

A good bookkeeping system is an investment that you can’t afford to be without

You may have money coming in and out of your business, and feel that you’ve a healthy heartbeat in your business. But if the blood is lacking oxygen, you quickly feel tired and lethargic.

A bookkeeping system is a way of checking the health of your business, keeping abreast of the cashflow.

A blockage in your blood stream can bring heart failure. A blockage in your cashflow can have disastrous results for your business
Bookkeeping is the oxygen in the blood stream of your business.

If your bookkeeping is inadequate, rushed or contains errors, then it can have a great impact on your business – just as poison in the bloodstream can affect your physical health

A healthy bookkeeping system can have a dramatacally positive effect on your business – CALL US TODAY for more information

Our Robina bookkeeping clients that report quarterly are aware the 1st quarter Business Activity Statements are due for lodgement 28 October 2010

Now school holidays in Queensland are finished, and businesses are returning to some state of normality before the Christmas period descends on us all

How to complete a BAS Statement
If you’ve never completed a Business Activity Statement for your Robina business, it can seem somewhat daunting. That’s whay so many business owners around Mudgeraba, Tallai, Robina and Varsity Lakes contact our Robina Bookkeeping Service

Whether you use MYOB or Quickbooks software, we can help by running various reports and checkinbg proceedures to ensure that your allocations are correct and that your figures balance

Rather than leaving it to the last minute, please contact us today, and we’ll get your bookkeeping upto date and in order