Timezone
Australian eastern time runs four and a half to five and a half hours ahead of India. There is real overlap for most of your working day, so questions get answered the same day rather than the next one.
Australia · AU
Books that stand up at lodgment.
Day-to-day bookkeeping and return preparation for Australian businesses, and overflow preparation work for accounting and tax agent practices. Lodgment with the ATO is made by your registered tax or BAS agent; the preparation behind it is what I do.
AU · 01
Tax and BAS preparation
- Business activity statements — quarterly and monthly BAS prepared from reconciled books, with the GST working attached.
- Instalment activity statements — PAYG instalment and withholding preparation.
- Individual returns — work-related deductions, rental schedules and capital gains workpapers.
- Company, trust and partnership returns — financial statements and tax reconciliation prepared for agent review.
- GST reconciliation — BAS-to-ledger reconciliation for the year, so the annual position ties out.
- Superannuation — guarantee calculation and quarterly payment schedules.
AU · 02
Bookkeeping
- Xero and MYOB — day-to-day processing, bank feed coding and reconciliation.
- Payroll preparation — pay run data, leave accrual and Single Touch Payroll data checks before submission.
- Accounts payable — supplier bills, approval workflow and payment run preparation.
- Month-end packs — profit and loss, balance sheet, ageing and a short commentary for your accountant.
- Catch-up work — multiple quarters of unreconciled data brought current before the next lodgment.
Practicalities
How it runs
For accounting firms
Files taken by assignment, prepared to your workpaper standards, returned with queries listed and nothing quietly assumed. Capacity that scales with your lodgment programme.
For business owners
A fixed monthly scope for the books, and a clean handover to whichever agent lodges for you. If you do not have one, I will say so early rather than late.
Next step
Quarter-end approaching?
Send the entity, the software and the state of the books. I will tell you what it takes to get to a lodgeable position and what it will cost.