Why use AJ Accounting Services?

Assisting small businesses in accounting and bookkeeping with MYOB has been my goal for around 14 years. Before commencing AJ Accounting Services in 1999, I held roles in Office Management and worked for a Chartered Accountants Office. I hold a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from Bond University, completed this year with many awards and a final GPA of 3.417/4 (Equivilant 85% average!)

Since being in business for the last 11 years, I’ve been involved in some very interesting projects in different industries and different areas that has given me a wealth of knowledge and experience in what it takes to run a small business. In any area of your business you can rest assured that I’ve seen the same thing once, twice, or a hundred times in some cases. If there is something I don’t know, I usually know how to find out quickly.

My speed on a keyboard for data entry into MYOB is very fast, and very accurate. It is important to remember when choosing someone to assist with your MYOB accounting and bookkeeping, that often a low hourly rate equates to a long time to do the work or a level of incompetence and a low hourly rate should make you question their ability.

I always aim to please, and that means keeping the time spent with you to a minimum, because it's more important for me to build an ongoing relationship than to make a quick buck. For this level of skill and experience, and my qualifications, you will find the cost of my assistance to be much cheaper in the long run. Iin fact, I may save you more money than my fees cost you, which is the case more often than you may think!

Why is it important to be is Certified by MYOB?

If you look hard enough you’ll find a lot of people who claim to be “Experts” in MYOB, and while there are many individuals out there who have used MYOB, there are only a handful of us who have devoted our careers to working with MYOB software who are really capable of the help you deserve.

Bookkeeping and consulting is still an unregulated industry and no formal qualifications are needed to work in our industry, though that is changing with the need to now hold a minimum of a Certificate IV in Accounting. That's why it is important that you choose a consultant who is certified by MYOB and holds the appropriate qualifications. It is important not to shop on costs only, but to consider what the overall cost/ benefit to your business is.

If still in doubt about your decision for specialised MYOB help, give me a call as I'm happy to speak personally to you about your own situation.

What else can a Certified Consultant do for you?

If you're pretty sure you need help, but can't quite put your finger on what you need, here are some common areas where help is requested.

• If you employ a bookkeeper to carry out your day to day entries and you can’t be sure it’s being done right, you can have your MYOB data reviewed periodically and have any errors fixed.
  
  
• If you feel confident doing your own data entry, journals, payroll, super, BAS etc but just need someone to make sure you’re on the right track and fix any errors.
  
  
• If you don’t know how to use the software, you’ve just purchased it and have no idea where to begin.
  
  
• If you’ve used the software but would like to make sure the initial setup is correct, so all linked accounts are accurate and all settings are correct.
  
  
• If you’d like some tweaking, troubleshooting, error fixing, converting from say quickbooks to MYOB or from a manual system to an electronic MYOB one!
  
  
• If you’re not sure that you’re getting the best out of the software and you feel you need some new systems to save time, or to maintain a better paper trail, or there are new features you'd like to start using.
  
  
• If you don’t own MYOB software but would still like your bookkeeping done efficiently to either track your profitability or to give completed accounts to your accountant to save on fees.
  
  
• If there is ever a chance of fraud by your staff, or if you’ve discovered any misappropriation of funds and you need specialist MYOB help to survey the damage, or implement systems to stop it happening again.
  

Or just because it would give you reassurance that you’re on the right track!!