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| Date Listed | 31/10/2009
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| Address | Clovelly NSW, Australia
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Difference between an Bookkeeper and a data entry person .....
People who list here and elsewhere as bookkeeper are/have :
Bachelor degree commerce - accounting (3y theory)
Cert. Pract. Acc or Chartered Acc (as above + )
Advance Diploma in accounting (2 y)
Diploma in accounting (1y or 1.5y)
Certificate iv related (6 months)
Nothing
Nothing with some experience in working as employee in the a/cs dept.
Teachers
etc
Some quote MYOB certifed or Quickbooks certified consultant, some are good, excellent, some are just a joke.
Some say experience: 10 years, true and some not (working as an employee as an account clerk is not been a bookkeeper with experience).
Many have website that lie (I came across one, Eastern Suburbs - Randwick), let yourself caught in nice marketing and bait advertising.
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Are they insured? Personal Indemnity for bad work they do to you? do you care about what they do to your accounts? as long as they lodge your BAS, if you are audited, do you point your figure to them? Don't you have any responsibility? ........................................................................................................
Do you pay $15 or $20 when a bookkeeper needs: software, a lot have cost of membership, soon compulsory insurance, how about their super? cost of other insurance? $15 or $20 only pays for bad data entry, further how fast do they type? .....at the end is really $15 a good deal: being on the other side, let me laugh at your expense
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Will you pay in return $45 for a Certificate iv (6 months study)????? at this cost you can get about a top consultant
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Do you pay for bookkeeping and BAS and sign the BAS yourself? fishy consultant...
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Before you engage a bookkeeper, think about what you want: a $200 cost for a BAS gives you bad data entry, most transactions are not recorded (making you pay more GST), a lot of creative work is seen, a mess is created, over the years: you think you have saved some bucks, in fact, it is proven that you loose money, your expenses are not claimed, you are given no advice, your balance sheet (fixed assets) are not reviewed, assets that should be expensed are not and not depreciated (this may cost you pay more income tax)....., you may be entitle to a number of accounting concessions, you do not get them.
I see this all the time
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In exchange, do not pay for a Rolls Royce why you only get a 15 year old Fiat.
Do not believe either that because one did or has this that it is a guarantee to good practice.
A number of $45 is to pay for cost of marketing, cost of obtaining bookkeeping knowledge and unfortunately not cost of real experince and insurance to protect you and them.
I see horror, all the time.
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Do your shopping, ask to see the diplomas etc, ask about experience, write it down, check their speed, etc...
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HAVE A SECOND OPINION, HAVE YOUR BOOKS CHECKED once in a while, some bookkeepers may do it for free.
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I should call myself the Bookkeeper doctor: I am called to fix the broken pipes ...I have done with for more than a decade.
I am just warning business owners who fail to take responsibility for their accounts, and only look at cost of 'paying somebody' to do their BAS, paying for ...what do you call .... a lemon?
The ATO is informing business owners about Bookkeepers and BAS agent regulation, business owners have little excuse in saying: I did not know. This is a start....
I am just hoping this information would help some.
Good luck, from next year 1/1/10.
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