Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely, for any bookkeeper to submit your Business Activity Statement (BAS) to the ATO or operate as a bookkeeping business, they must maintain their BAS agent registration with the Tax Practitioners Board.
Maintaining a current registration, undertaking continuous professional education, maintaining appropriate insurance and staying updated with changes to bookkeeping requirements.
There is no typical, I work with sole traders and companies and some times trusts. Some of my clients are husband and wife teams, some are just starting out and some have 30 employees with a team in the financial office. Bookkeeping can be training others so they can do the work themselves or it can be just doing the accounts payable and bank reconciliation. Sometimes I am in the file weekly and sometimes just once per BAS quarter, which ever is more appropriate for the business.
With a little technology your bookkeeper can be anywhere in the world, but I like being a small business helping small business so I mostly work in the Fraser Coast. For online bookkeeping all the client needs to do is upload paperwork. If you spent it for the business then forward email the Telstra/Optus bill straight to your software, or upload the fuel/Officeworks docket using your app and your bookkeeper will have almost all they need.
For training, most software now works in real time so we can be on the phone and I can see what you have done or uploaded then talk you through a procedure or correction, and later email you a step by step instruction page to refer to.