Melissa has grown up and is still living in Epping in Victoria. Her background nationality is half Italian and half Maltese.
She has been working for Swag Bookkeeping since May 2018. She was looking for a part-time job close to home with flexibility like many young people starting a family.
Before Swag, she worked for another bookkeeping company part-time as well as chased after two cheeky rascals. Her daughter, Elyse, is five and son, Dion, is three. In addition to being a full-time mother and part-time bookkeeper for SWAG, she also performs all the administration and bookkeeping duties for herhusband’s Electrical business.
In her very little spare time, she enjoys reading, spending time with friends and family, long walks along the beach, jet skiing and loves to travel. If she did not study accounting she could see herself doing something with planes and traveling.
In the next five years, she hopes to further her education and increase her work profile when her kids begin school. That will allow her to have more time to focus on her career. And of course like most of the SWAG employees she would also love to continue traveling around Australia and overseas. P
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Teamwork also offers a Chat tool for free as an alternative to Slack. You can attach files, search conversations and mobile chant with this free app.
Why did Sheree choose Teamwork over Asana? The software provides systems that come with basic and advanced tools that are not as confusing as the other well-known platforms. We can organize our projects, teams, resources, schedules and more with ease and speed. It will allow us to collaborate effectively with members of our team as well as our clients. Another feature she liked is we can go mobile because it is compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android, Google Chrome and the Web.
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Tasmania is a great tourist destination. It is picturesque, rich in history, culinary delights and outdoor adventure opportunities. We recently traveled to Launceston to attend the wedding of a friend in his 80’s, reunited with the love of his life after 40 years of searching. A love story to touch your heart; to make you smile.
The reception at the Country Club was a veritable feast- way too delicious to exercise moderation, so come Sunday we were looking to do something a little more active. We had stayed overnight at Deloraine and opted for a tour of the Marakoopa Cave near Mole Creek. The temperature inside the caves is a constant 9 degrees all year round, so if you are planning to visit, it’s advisable to take something warm to wear.
We saw a few glowworms on the ceiling at the start of our tour, with our guide promising that we would see a lot more on the way out once our eyes had adjusted to the low level light in the cave. The cave features stalagmites, formed from water dripping from the straw like stalactites above, underground streams and glittering flowstone formations. It is quite beautiful and incredibly amazing when you appreciate just how many years it takes to create these formations. We did indeed see many more glowworms on our return.
We stopped for breakfast in Mole Creek at Café Bozzey. No bacon and eggs but the Devon tea was a cheerful substitute. Generous, served with real cream and great coffee. The comfortable couch and armchairs added to the experience.
Café Bozzey is full of tourist information. There were various books on sale, some by a local author JH Fletcher. As luck would have it, he wandered in for a coffee while we were there, and we invited him to join us and to tell us about his writing. He is a man who followed his dream and
For more information
http://molecreek.info/natures-wonders/mole-creek-caves/
Once reporting through STP-enabled payroll software you will send tax and super information to the ATO each time you run your payroll and pay your employees.
Here is the STP process:
• Run your regular payroll to pay employees (eg weekly, fortnightly or monthly)
• Your employee receives their salary or wages, and their payslip as they did previously
• Your payroll software includes mandatory fields to capture the STP data, which includes year-to-date salary or wages and super information
• The STP data is sent to the ATO. The STP file is called a “pay event”. The way the file is sent will depend on the software. This may be directly, or through a sending service provider (a third party)
• the ATO receives the STP data and matches the information to the employer and their employees
• The ATO makes STP information available to employees through myGov, to employers through the Business Portal and to tax agents through the Tax Agent Portal. Employees can see their year-to-date tax and super information.
You will no longer need to provide your employees with payment summaries for the information they report through STP. Employees will find the information they need to complete their income tax return in ATO online services, accessed through myGov. Employees who choose not to have a myGov account can contact the ATO to get a copy of their payment summary information.
STP data will also be available to tax agents in pre-filling. From January 2020, the ATO will pre-fill activity statement labels W1 and W2. And note that employers will no longer need to provide the ATO with a payment summary annual report (PSAR).
You will be able to offer online commencement forms to new employees, including Tax file number declaration, Superannuation (super) standard choice, Withholding declaration and Medicare levy variation declaration forms that can be sent to the ATO via myGov.
If you have 20 or more employees on 1 April 2018 you have been required to report to the ATO through STP-enabled software from 1 July 2018, unless you’ve been granted a deferral.
If you have 19 or fewer employees on 1 April 2018 you can choose to report through STP now if your software is ready.
Before using STP
You will most likely need to take a few initial steps to be able to send data to the ATO. These have been outlined by the ATO on this web page.
Note that you do not need an AUSkey if you are using a sending service provider (SSP) such as a registered BAS Agent to send the STP file.
You also do not need an AUSkey if you are using cloud-based or online software to send the STP file, eg Xero, MYOB or Quickbooks. You will connect to the ATO using the unique software ID the software provider has given you. You should check with your software provider if they do not have a software ID.
The software ID is similar to a serial number. You can notify the ATO of the software ID by phoning 1300 85 22 32 or completing a one-off notification through Access Manager (you need an AUSkey to use Access Manager). The ATO will not be able to receive the STP report without the correct software ID.
You will need their own AUSkey if they are using software that connects directly to the ATO, such as an on-premise solution.
The ATO understands the transition to STP is a major change for some you. You, registered agents and software providers have been able to request more time to start STP reporting.
Some software providers applied to the ATO for a later start date (a deferral) for their employer clients. If a software provider has a deferral, they will advise their clients and provide them with a deferral reference number (DRN).
You do not need to do anything with the DRN. This number verifies the provider was granted a deferral by the ATO. Registered agents who also provide a payroll service can apply for a deferral for their clients by using the ATO’s online form.
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Born and raised in Preston, Gloria Bitilis’ family background is Italian. She and her husband now reside close to her adult children in Mill Park. She has been with Swag for over 2 years. She enjoys working within a small team with others that enjoy providing small businesses with a more intimate style bookkeeping service. Her work experience started in the legal industry then moved to Accounting Firms. She has played some sort of a role within the accounting realm for the past 15 years. She enjoys spending time with family, friends and most importantly, her dogs. She also enjoys her time alone reading a good book. She hopes to continue working but also to balance it with a bit more travel both within Australia & overseas.
We hope you enjoy meeting the team. We want to be one big family along with your team.
Do your own bookkeeping but avoid these MISTAKES
Cloud-based technology and the advent of Xero have been game-changers in the world of bookkeeping. Historically, bookkeeping was tied to a computer and a location and involved paper records. Today desktops are being replaced by internet browsers.
With cloud accounting, records are able to be managed in digital form and accessed from pretty much any device, from any location as long as the user has access to the internet, although it should be noted that this is not entirely true for the very popular MYOB AccountRight Online. This is a hybrid package for which you still need downloaded software on your device to access your file online.
The technology provides for automatic bank feeds which allow transactions to be imported into your file directly from the bank pretty much in real time, although a delay of a day is not uncommon.
The software is intuitive and easy to use and empowers business owners to take control of their bookkeeping. Unfortunately, this can encourage over-confidence in the software packages.
It is not always apparent what is happening in the background of the accounting package, and our bookkeeping service finds itself being called upon more and more often to identify and rectify issues that make it apparent that the bookkeeping records are not quite right.
Irrespective of which accounting package is chosen, we see the same mistakes being made and these are readily avoided with a bit more understanding of what is happening behind the scenes.
The bookkeeping file commences on a certain date, often the first day of a new financial year. If the business has already been operating before adopting Xero, there will have been transactions on the account. The bank accounts and credit cards will have balances – opening balances. Unless you tell Xero what these balances are, Xero assumes they are zero.
Automatic bank feeds are a major benefit of online accounting packages, but they start on a particular day. If the bank feed commences a week after the conversion date, any transactions that occurred before this date will not have been downloaded to your file. These need to be either recorded or imported manually –
The online packages record the wage/salary expense through their payroll function. The actual payment of the net wage, super and PAYG withholding tax is then meeting the liability that has been accrued as a result of the wage being recorded. The payment out of the bank account should be recognized as the payment of this liability and recorded against the liability accounts ie. wages payable or super payable. If the bank transaction is posted as an expense item, the payroll expense is incorrectly duplicated.
Automatic bank feeds make bookkeeping easier and more
For businesses using Paypal where the Paypal expense is debited from their main operating account, the Paypal debit from the operating account is often recorded as an expense instead of a transfer. The expense will be recorded in the Paypal account. The debit out of the operating account is only a transfer of money and should be recorded as such, otherwise, the expense is recorded twice.