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Outsourcing your bookkeeping can benefit your business by saving you time and costs.

Feb 22, 2018
4 min

Outsourcing your bookkeeping can benefit your business by saving you time and costs.

Keeping your books up to date is important if you care about your business. Without quality bookkeeping, you won’t know how much cash is coming in or going out. You will have no idea as to whether you are meeting your goals or even running a financially successful business. Bookkeeping is one of those tasks that is so often pushed aside and left to build up. Without up to date bookkeeping your accountant can’t do their job. So, either you will pay expensive hourly rates to

Introducing Sass’s newest workshops

Feb 22, 2018
1 min

Introducing Sass’s newest workshops

Excel 2016 Beginner +, Excel 2016 Intermediate & MS Word 2016 Beginner – Intermediate. Our 6.5-hour workshops have been designed for people wanting to learn the true capabilities of what Microsoft Excel & Microsoft Word can do. Often with these programs we are self-taught or just aren’t aware of the many functions these programs can do; which enable us to be more efficient at performing tedious tasks and also gives us the confidence to create professional documents and works

AIM - new provisional tax option for small businesses

Feb 22, 2018
2 min

AIM - new provisional tax option for small businesses

IRD has brought out a new way to pay provisional tax, which they have called AIM accounting income method. Basically, this is filing a mini tax return every two months, opposed to just the end of the year. Sounds great on the surface but once you start getting into the nitty gritty there are many aspects to really think about before you decide if this new method suits your business and whether your accounting system even allows for this new method. Xero is only compatible i

Minimum Wage Increase - To Increase ALL Wages or Not

Feb 15, 2018
3 min

Minimum Wage Increase - To Increase ALL Wages or Not

When the minimum wage increases should you increase all wages by that amount? This is a question we are often asked, and a question that is really open to the individual opinion. We can’t give you the answer to that, but we can give you some things to think about. Before we get into it, many believe (and not disputed among economist, apparently) when the minimum wage increases, not everyone on the minimum wage will feel it as some will receive reduced hours, lose other benef