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Lydia & Associates
GL BAS Bookkeeping Services
Registered BAS Agent
Senior Bookkeeper
Importance of
Bookkeeping Records
It is a LEGAL REQUIREMENT to keep records
that are accurate and true for a period of at least 5 years from the date
that the documents were prepared, obtained or the transaction completed,
whichever occurs the latest. You can keep in English or in a form that
ATO can access and understand in order to work out the amount of tax you
are liable to pay. There are penalties for not maintaining the required
records and for not keeping them for five years. KEEPING GOOD
RECORDS WILL HELP YOU AVOID THESE PENALTIES.
Also GOOD RECORDS make it easier to
complete your activity statements and prepare your annual income tax and
fringe benefits tax returns; monitor the health of your business and be
able to make sound business decisions – for example, by keeping
track of debtors and creditors; help you to manage your cash flow so you
can pay your tax when it falls due; demonstrate your financial position
to banks and other lenders, and also to prospective buyers of your business;
make best use of your tax adviser. Rather than paying them to sort through
a shoebox of paperwork, give your tax adviser well prepared records and
pay them instead to help you with your business and financial planning;
GL BAS & Bookkeeping Services provides:
- BAS preparation & Lodgement
- Invoicing- Time billing, service sale or item sale
- Accounts Payables & Receivables Management
- Bank Reconciliations
- Inventory management
- Payroll/ Superannuation/ Entitlements Management
- STP - Single Touch Payroll service
- Employee Time Sheet Process, link to wages and invoicing clients
- Job/ Project Management
- Profit & Loss Statements
- Cash Flow Management
- End of financial year processes
And for Legal Firms:
- Trust & General Accounting
- Receipts & Payments Processing
- Disbursement and Invoicing Processing
- Client's Accounts Management
- End of Month Reconciliations & Reports
- External Auditing Assistant
- LEAP Accounting and LawWare Maintenance
And for Property management Firms:
- Trust & General Accounting
- Receipts & Payments Processing
- Disbursement and Invoicing Processing
- End of Month Reconciliations & Reports
- External Auditing Assistance
Plus:
- Employment Compliance Consulting
- Accounts Trouble Shooting
- Software On/Off site Training & Support
- New Business Setup Advice & Register
Also we are Accounting System consultant,
providing MYOB upgrading to Live version services & support.
Accounting systems and processes are an extremely important element of
any business. Having the right accounting systems in place is critical
to the success of managing your business.
There are a number of reasons why effective business
accounting systems are important:
- The right system can give you much more control on
your business management and greatly improve the
effectiveness of information share and security.
- It will ease your data entry from department to
department, or position to position..
- It makes it cheaper, easier and quicker to complete
activity statements and in turn your annual tax returns.
- It enables businesses to monitor the health of their
business and in turn make sound decisions.
- It helps businesses manage their cash flow.
- It demonstrates the financial position to banks and
other lending institutions.
- It enables business to make better use of their tax
adviser.
  
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The records you must keep for ATO
1. Income tax and GST:
– sales invoices, including tax invoices
– sales vouchers or receipts
– cash register tapes, credit card statements
– bank deposit books and account statements.
– purchase/expense invoices, including tax invoices
– purchase/expense receipts, which include an ABN
– cheque butts and bank account statements
– credit card statements
– records showing how you worked out any private use of something you
purchased, i.e. car.
2. Year-end income tax records
– motor vehicle expenses
– debtors and creditors lists
– stocktake sheets
– depreciation schedules
– capital gains tax records.
3. Employee Payment Records
- timesheet showing start &
finish time of normal and overtime work
- issue Pay Slip showing normal and overtime hours, Pay rate, Allowance,
Gross pay, Tax & Net pay, and Pay period
Small business benchmarks raise awareness
The ATO
have developed benchmarks for over 900,000 small
businesses in over 100 industries.
Approximately 90% of businesses in bench marked
industries fall within a benchmark range.
Where a business is reporting significantly more net
income than their industry peers, this can alert the business to consider if
they have forgotten to claim all of their business deductions.
On the other hand about 76,000 businesses report income
that is significantly below that of their industry peers.
This requires ATO to do further checking, either through
matching against known asset information, reports from the community or
through direct queries from the ATO to the business.
Where a business is reporting significantly less income than the benchmark
range for their industry, if they have good evidence to explain all of their
income and expenses, they will not be subject to tax adjustments. |
