Ever feel like your brain is at capacity? That you are suffering from information overload? Starting a business can quickly bring you to this point.
Information Overload is a real thing – the trick is convert info to knowledge!
Small business owners need a guardian angel – someone like a bookkeeper to keep them on the path of light and away from the darkness of a tax office audit.
These days BAS agents (professional bookkeepers) are usually found working in the cloud.
Are you mainlining caffeine to keep it all going in your small business?
Maybe on International Coffee Day you are starting to think about how you can cut down to a more sensible 3 cups per day?
So you’ve got staff and you need to opt in for STP reporting, why not setup xero auto super while you are at it?
STP reporting is designed to make sure employers are paying staff super – on time.
Single Touch Payroll (STP) is the new way to report employee wages, withholding tax and super data to the ATO.
Instead of waiting til after the end of financial year – businesses will be reporting electronically in real time – you need STP enabled software to do this (no more carbon paper forms).
Nicole was invited to demonstrate MinuteDock, from a users perspective, to 200 bookkeepers & accountants at Heather Smith’s #PreXercon Cloud Apps Meetup last week.
Sometimes when you are self employed it feels like the whole world is against you. So many competing demands, so many task to take care of. Don’t forget to stop and take care of yourself.
Have you heard the latest gossip from the tax office?
Don’t rely on the rumour mill at the pub – make sure you discuss possible issues with your BAS agent before you get caught with your pants down!
Are you working like a dog, without so much as a ‘Good Boy!’ ?
Once you’ve got hold of the ball do you refuse to drop it, and end up working late into the night?
Running a small business may have you feel like you are chasing your tail…
Are you planting trees or still cutting them down?
We’re largely paperless, and so are our clients, thanks to Xero and connected apps like Hubdoc, which will e-fetch your invoices and statements for you.
