Celebrations – Streamline Management

🎈It’s our 29th Birthday!🎈

We’ll be celebrating with Fairy Bread for lunch!
(cause you’re never too old for white bread, butter, and hundreds and thousands.)

Do you remember 1997?
– Tax time meant marching down to the post office with your PAYE and PPS pink books.
– The internet came with a dial-up screech and laptops could double as doorstops.
– Accounting meant wrestling with Lotus 1-2-3 on an extremely deep desktop monitor.

To our amazing clients, partners, and friends – thank you. Thank you for trusting us with your businesses, for laughing at our silly days of the year, and for being the best bit of our 29 year journey. We literally couldn’t do it without you.
🧁 🎁🍾🎁🧁

04/07/2026

Top 50 Women in Accounting nominee – yet again!

Our founder, Nicole, has just been nominated for the global Top 50 Women in Accounting for 2026!

Now, we don’t want to brag (ok, you got us, we love an event to brag about!) The collection is getting out of hand, she has managed to pull off this nomination every single year since 2019!

19/06/2026

Australian Made Week

Are you producing Australian Made goods or services?

We are proud to say our services are 100% Australian-made. No overseas outsourcing – just local experts helping local small businesses thrive.

Shopping with Aussie businesses supports smaller players (more than 95% of Australian businesses are classed as small), creating a ripple effect of jobs so those employees can shop local too.
Whether it’s everyday essentials, local manufacturing, or choosing an Aussie service provider like us, every dollar counts.

18/05/2026

May 2026

May Day May Day!
Make sure these key dates are in your diary.

01/05/2026

Payday Super Hero Day!

Payday Super laws have officially passed, and the countdown to 1 July 2026 is on. You will need to pay super at the same time as you pay wages. It must leap tall buildings and land in the employee’s fund within 7 business days.
We’ve put our undies on the outside of our tights, and we’ve got your back on these big changes.

What’s Changing?
– Increased Frequency: Depending on your pay cycles, your reporting frequency will shift from quarterly to weekly, fortnightly, or monthly. You’ll be in the phone booth a lot more often.

– New Calculations: ‘Qualifying Earnings’ will replace ‘Ordinary Time Earnings’ (OTE) as the base for calculating the 12% contribution.

– Cashflow Impact: If you don’t start your run-up now, you could end up paying April, May, June, and July all within a single month. That would be villainous for your cashflow.

Don’t wait for the 2026 deadline to activate your superpowers – start easing into the phone booth now to avoid a mid-2026 crunch.

Need a sidekick to make you look good? Ask us to give you a hand.

28/04/2026

Happy Easter!

We will eggs-it the office at noon on Thursday 2nd April,
and we’ll be back on Tuesday 7th April.

Have an eggs-ellent Easter Break!

The Chicks
Streamline Management

🐣🐣🐣

02/04/2026

April public holidays

As a small business owner you might be looking forward to a few days off to take a little break and eat too much chocolate.
As an employer you might be a bit less keen to pay your team when they are not working.

Remember: ‘Employees (except casual employees) who normally work on the day a public holiday falls will be paid their base pay rate for the ordinary hours they would have worked if they had not been away because of the public holiday. An employee’s roster can’t be changed to deliberately avoid this payment. An employee doesn’t get paid for a public holiday if they don’t normally work on the day that the public holiday falls.’ says Fairwork

Part time staff need to be paid for their normal work days, if you ask them to come in on an extra day to get everything done, you need to pay them extra – no swapsies!

31/03/2026

Panic Day 2026

Take a breath, put the kettle on, and let us handle the numbers. We promise to bring the organisation (and the good humour.)

We help small business owners keep calm – by managing deadlines and their accounts department.

As Heidi from Mackenzie Pronk Architects puts it, we’re all about that ‘comprehensive but light touch.’ We’ll give you the gentle reminders you need so that Panic Day stays an amusing date in our calendar, rather than a permanent state of mind.

09/03/2026

Employee Appreciation Day – Gifts

Employee Appreciation Day is tomorrow.
Want to say ‘thank you’ without inviting the ATO to the party?

Handle the ‘fun tax’ (FBT) like a pro.
Keep your gift under $300 (including GST) per person. For the best tax outcome, stick to Non-Entertainment gifts like a hamper or a gift card. You get the deduction, they get the prize!

And don’t forget the non-cash options
What are you planning for your team this year?

05/03/2026

Lego Day

Surely everyone thinks perfectly balanced accounts are just as satisfying as a completed Lego set?

We’re celebrating International Lego Day by doing what we always do, putting things in the right boxes.
Lego – sorted by brick size and colour
Your Accounts – sorted by ‘actually deductible’ and ‘yeah, nah’.

If you feel like you are building 10307 Eiffel Tower without the instruction manual, sing out – we’ll help you snap the final pieces in place.

28/01/2026

Category: Celebrations