Horst Herb wrote:
Or is somebody else familiar with the various financial data formats and keen
to write such export function?
I suspect MYOB only ever caught on because accountants recommend it - and they
only recommend it because MYOB makes book keeping look so difficult that
accountants are needed for it
i wrote my own bog simple spreadsheet in open office
outgoings / incomings (+/- gst), including partially claimable items
calculates bas quarterly with simplicity and gives me numbers to put in
the dreaded government form
the only concession i have to make is to save it as xls, when i give the
accountant the file on a floppy with my papers in a neat file - all the
required documentation is handed over, but he trusts me and the summary
on the spreadsheet is enough to do the tax
i used to do the tan return myself, until the government kept changing
the reference letters for the form - i had all the info i needed, but it
got too complicated trying to figure where to write the numbers; not to
mention the several form "s" attachments for income as a gp, occasional
journalist and infrequent government "consultant"
accounting packages are a means of confusing rather simple maths by
squeezing it into arbitrary tax office defined boxes, pointlessly
i would rather say "earned this, have these deductions, paid this much
in instalments, how much are we out?", and rely on the feds doing random
audits where i would lose time occasionally to explain it to them,
rather than waste my time regularly to fit the same numbers in their
boxes without any greater achievement than creating employment for
accountants, and waste a shitload of paper to "prove" it
ash
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