Online Sessions

Finally - They have been released!

The online seminar sessions and the BAS Agent Legislation session is now available to buy on disk, including postage and handling. For a short time the 3 My Bookkeeping Business Seminar Sessions also come with the compendium and work book!

To buy the webinar sessions, click on the links with each item.

BAS Agent Legislation - 60 minute presentation on the changes and the impacts to Bookkeepers due to the new legislation. This session was attended by over 100 people and was a great informative session which discusses qualifications, experience, professional indemnity insurance, and applying to the TPB. The session is now available for $33 including postage and GST.

Session 1 - My Bookkeeping Business, Starting your Bookkeeping Business including Business Plans. 90 minute session, $77 including postage and GST.

Session 2 - My Bookkeeping Business, Marketing your Bookkeeping Business including Client Generation. 90 minute session, $77 including postage and GST .

Session 3 - My Bookkeeping Business, Running and Growing your Bookkeeping Business. This session includes the nuts and bolts of running your business. 90 minute session, $77 including postage and GST.

Buy 1 or 2 sessions for $77 each, or buy all 3 for $198 including GST and postage and receive the bonus work book and compendium.

Face to face seminar sessions will be on again in September/October 2010.

BAS Agent Legislation

I can't believe where the year has gone. It is March 1st already. I have been busy this year working on my business, getting my book printed and now the new BAS Agent Legislation Registration applications can be completed!

So with all of the questions floating around, I will be holding a one hour webinar (online seminar) which anyone can participate in for free. Just register for the event, log into the webinar a few minutes before start time and have a fun filled hour of discussion, questions and answers!

It will be on Tuesday March 9th at 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm AEST.

To register please click here!

Start a Bookkeeping Business - Licensing

If you are thinking about starting your own Bookkeeping Business, you will need to think about your qualifications and experience and if there are any services you can not offer to clients.

At this stage Bookkeeping is not regulated and anyone can set up shop as a bookkeeper. The only exception to this is if a bookkeeper wants to perform BAS and BAS related services to clients. The reason for this is that the provision of the BAS is caught up in the taxation legislation, which is very specific about who is eligible to perform BAS services for a fee.

Due to this if you want to provide BAS services for a fee, you will need to satisfy certain criteria so you do not get into trouble with the ATO.

If you perform all other bookkeeping functions for a business and just give the client the reports for them to complete to BAS form and you do not complete it, you do not need any special qualifications or professional memberships.

I often get asked if Bookkeeping itself might become more regulated and it is possible as it rises in popularity and is now looked at as a quasi profession. Since the provision of BAS services is wrapped up in taxation legislation, the provision of BAS services for a fee will become more regulated as with the proposed introduction of the BAS Agent Registration legislation and bookkeepers will need tp incerase their skills and knowledge to continue being competitive in their own businesses.

BAS Agent Registration

Draft legislation has become available for people wishing to become registered BAS agents. 

The legislation proposes that to be registered the applicant must have as a minimum accounting qualification -

Certificate IV Financial Services (Bookkeeping) or

Certificate IV Financial Services (Accounting)

In addition the individual must have undertaken at least 1,400 hours of relevant experience in the last 3 years.

As you can see the provision of BAS services for a fee, is becoming stricter to protect the end user. 

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