This one time, at band camp, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > For what it's worth we probably spend about 3 hours a month (maximum) entering > invoices and receipts into our accounting package, about 2 minutes a quarter > doing our BAS and maybe 1 hour a year doing the tax return.
That sounds doable. What accounting package, if you don't mind? > At least in Victoria this isn't quite so. We use the super funds that our > employees were already signed up with, and just deposit the money every > quarter. > If you're keeping good records of the salaries paid out then it's not too > hard > to make sure that the super goes out when it needs to. Running your own super > fund (if you have to/choose to go down that route definitely requires an > accountant however. Yeah I think that's national. It only pays to have your own if you've got a buttload of money in the fund. > I agree with this entirely. Whether you use the services of an accountant for > all of your business needs, or whether you do some things yourself; you should > definitely be friends with an accountant so that you can get them to sanity > check anything if you're concerned. They're also really good at helping you > decide if a company or trust or sole trader is the best option for you. Talk > to > an accountant. I'm seeing an accountant tomorrow. And I sign the contract for the job tomorrow too :) Thanks for the info everyone! -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal" - Martin Luther King, Jr. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
