Blog

Last-minute tax time tips for sole traders

This article was first published on www.myob.com.au If you’re a sole trader and haven’t lodged your tax return, there is still time. Just make sure you read these expert tips…

5 financial management tips for sole traders during COVID-19 (and beyond)

If you’re a sole trader then managing your money is key to your success and, especially in 2020, your business’s survival. Here are some tips on how to you can…

CA Catalyst Member Stories: Creating value through technology

Amanda Gascoigne believes in educating clients to be more technologically efficient so accountants can focus on higher levels of service. The GST was about to hit when Amanda Gascoigne launched…

How to help clients get BAS done (and receive their COVID-19 stimulus entitlements)

This article first appeared on myob.com.au If you handle BAS submissions for small business clients, the coronavirus outbreak and resulting social distancing measures couldn’t have come at a worse time.…

How to build and maintain your practice culture in a changing world

An interview with Amanda Gascoigne as published on www.receipt-bank.com In many respects, Amanda Gascoigne is a trailblazer. She started her own practice back in 1999 after her place of work…

Trends For Small And Solo Accounting Practices

I believe that in 2020, small and solo accounting practices are looking for more. More from their practice. More from their life. Many on their practice journey for some time,…

5 things you can do to fall in love with your accounting practice again

Are you loving the way your accounting practice is running in 2020? If not, Valentine’s Day marks the perfect time of year to get on top of a few key…

How to plan for practice success in 2020

As in any business, it’s easy for accounting practice owners to get bogged down in the nitty gritty. Before 2020 heats up, now’s the time to break the cycle. These…

What are Business Activity Statements (BAS)?

The mere mention of the term ‘Business Activity Statement’ (BAS) is enough to make many business owners break out in a sweat. Even more stressful than that is having to…

Planning for the Future of Your Practice

I started my practice in 1999 and this year I would of celebrated 20 years in practice had an opportunity not have presented itself 6 years ago. But before I…

Is $5K reasonable to pay an accountant annually?

This was a question posted recently on Facebook and I felt an urge to respond. You see I’ve read similar questions before and have bit my tongue, but the frequency…

Are you ready for Single Touch Payroll?

Single Touch Payroll (STP) is the biggest change for businesses since the introduction of the GST in July 2000. If you were in business back then, I bet it wasn’t…

How accounting practices can guarantee Single Touch Payroll success

This article was first published on MYOB.com/au Single Touch Payroll is one of the biggest changes since GST. As such, it also offers many opportunities for accounting practice owners and…

Single Touch Payroll explained: What if my SME clients have outstanding SG?

A one-size-fits-all rollout of Single Touch Payroll (STP) for SME clients is a game accountants probably shouldn’t be playing.

My “Two Bob’s” worth and what accountant can learn from Two Bobs Bakery

Ideal clients are a key ingredient for a fun, rewarding and profitable business! Here’s an example of a business owner doing business and life their way. Two Bobs Bakery opened just…

EOFY checklist for businesses

This blog was first published on MYOB.com/au There’s lots to do as a business owner as you focus on year-end accounting and bookkeeping tasks in addition to some forward planning…

2019 International Women’s Day Message – scrap the stereotype and embrace the balance!

In the mid 80’s there was a considerable number of my fellow students that opted to enter the workforce after completing Year 9 or 10. For work experience in Year…

Helping accounting practice owners have practices and lives that tick all the boxes – family, choice, freedom, fulfilment, money!

You could say I’ve been a career Chartered Accountant for over 25 years. I was a passionate accounting practice founder and owner for 18 years and have always been motivated…

The Juggle is Real and so are the #proudmumma Moments in the years that follow!

Yesterday was a day of mixed emotions for me. Our eldest son Callum, set off from home with great excitement and confidence as he embarked on a new stage of…

5 things we can learn from the collapse of Napoleon Perdis

Yesterday, Napoleon Perdis (NP) was dishing out plenty of blame as his $120 million cosmetics empire was placed into voluntary administration. greedy landlords uncompromising credit environment shift to online retailing and decline…

Goodbye 2018. Hello 2019. My tips to help you have your best year ever in practice!

Today is the last day of 2018 and I hope that you have had some time since Christmas to reflect on the year that was, to afford yourself some time…

Three habits of successful sole practitioners

So many sole practitioners: are working too many hours are not being well enough remunerated for these hours and are feeling frustrated and disillusioned by their current practicelife! Unfortunately,…

Shop online this Christmas

Save time and shop online ….. The benefits of shopping on line certainly saves you time running around, it can save you dollars as it is much quicker searching the…

What I’ve Been Listening To

13th July, 2018 It’s not even two weeks into the 2018/2019 financial year and I’m curious to know how you are juggling everything? One of the things I am super…

What I’ve Been Reading

6th July, 2018 This week I’ve started a new book “The Big Leap” by Gay Hendricks which has ben sitting on my bookshelf for some time. It’s all about overcoming…

Single Touch Payroll One Stop Shop – Part 1

For those of you who know me, I consider myself a perfectionist, but I’m not perfect! I aimed to get a monthly newsletter out last month and the month before…

Business Lessons we can learn from the Royal Wedding

I was one of the nearly 5 million people in Australia who hijacked the TV and took hold of the remote to watch the royal wedding live on Saturday night. Jason was grateful…

10 tax myths new business starters accept as gospel

This article originally appeared in the MYOB website on 15 May. Setting up a new business means being tech savvy. But when it comes to tax, startups often get it…

It’s time accountants and bookkeepers team up in the Connected Practice

This article originally appeared in the MYOB website on 4 May. As automation redefines the roles of accountants and bookkeepers, firms will be better off engaging in who does what.…

The questions that keep practice owners up at night

Being a small or solo accounting practice owner certainly can be rewarding but it can also be quite lonely at times. As a regular facilitator of a “Profitable Accounting Practice” workshop,…

Deadline looms for employers with 20 or more employees to be ready for Single Tax Payroll

How did you get into accounting? I had my sights set on two careers – an accountant or fashion designer/textiles and design teacher. To many, these would appear worlds apart,…

Maitland Mercury Interview: Being the only tax practitioner on ATO’s new payroll working party

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by the Maitland Mercury on Single Touch Payroll. Below is a copy of the article that was published April 6th, 2018. To…

Single Touch Payroll – it’s headcount day for employers!

Today (1 April 2018) is the first milestone date for Single Touch Payroll. Don’t worry if you haven’t done anything about STP up until now as a very large proportion…

2018 International Women’s Day Message – It’s Quality, Not Quantity!

I was born in 1971. My Mum and Dad were both 20. My Dad was a meat slicer at the local abattoirs and my Mum worked at The Wales Bank…

Why I put my hand up to help the ATO with their implementation of Single Touch Payroll

In late September 2016 an “expression of interest” callout landed in my inbox from my professional body, Chartered Accountants ANZ. The callout was to participate in the ATO’s Single Touch…

How to fall in love with your practice again

How to fall in love with your practice again It’s Valentine’s Day today and I thought I would share a few tips for those of you who may have fallen…

Get your practice prepared for STP: the next steps

Single Touch Payroll (STP) will not be SuperStream 2.0 – so it’s important to get prepared now. A lot of accountants I’ve spoken to over the last couple of months…

Did you say no in 2017? Well it’s definitely time to say no in 2018!

If you did, WELL DONE. If you didn’t, I give you PERMISSION to say no in 2018 …. How many times have you said yes to something when you know…

What you need to know about Single Touch Payroll

Single Touch Payroll (STP) is set to change the way just over 100,000 employers report salary and wage payments to the ATO for about 13 million employees. A further 700,000…

Single Touch Payroll and your accounting practice

Single Touch Payroll isn’t just a big change in reporting – it could change the conversation between you and your clients. Single Touch Payroll (STP) is set to change the way just…

Work-life balance – design your perfect practice

How has this work-life balance thing been going for you? I tell you it’s the bloody holy grail for both accounting practice owners and their clients alike, so if you…

Are you living the life of a successful, balanced and happy accountant?

The concept of these things is different to each and every one of us and can also be different during the various stages our lives. When people think of success,…

Say Goodbye 2017 and Hello 2018 – get you and your practice ready!

It’s the last day the 2017 year. Today I hope you too have been able to take some time to reflect on the year. To show gratitude for your successes…

Your end of year business plan

The countdown is on until the end of the year, so let’s make the next few weeks count! The key to making the most of the next few weeks is…

Cull your Christmas Gift List

Be a happy little reindeer – cull your Christmas gift list. 2 years ago, I sent this message to friends and family that I had a tradition of exchanging Christmas…

Beware of the ATOs Christmas Grinch

There are tax-effective ways to spread the Christmas love and spirit, so don’t get caught out this year by the ATO’s Christmas Grinch. I thought I would share with you…

Just say no

I give you permission to say no in 2017 …. How many times have you said yes to something when you know you really should have said no? Well, I’m…

The man behind the scenes – Jason Gascoigne

This week Jason and I celebrated our 22nd Wedding Anniversary and in honour of this milestone and this remarkable man, I’m sharing a post written by Jason himself. In this…

How to boost your business mojo

Are you still as in love with your business as you were on day one? If you’re not, how do you get back to that point? Chances are you were…

The way you start will be the way you finish

Just before I started my own business, over 15 years ago, the boss I was leaving gave me this advice and I still use this concept as somewhat of a…

How’s your team looking?

Oprah Winfrey once said, “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher”. If Oprah said it, it must be true. Great people help to create great…

Q&A: Amanda Gascoigne talks opportunities and threats

Amanda Gascoigne, founder and managing director of The Biz Buddy, a consultancy firm helping accountants run their business more efficiently, talks to AccountantsDaily about the industry’s biggest hurdles and greatest opportunities. What exactly…

Isn’t it about time you found your J-spot?

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure (no pun intended) of attending MYOB’s Partner Connect in Sydney. The keynote speaker was a delightful, slightly crazy lady (her words not mine)…

Ready to Get Started?