Baby Offspring of Monster Pot Plant
A plant is like a business - This is actually my own plant, a giant spathiphyllum, that I have had in the office for about 14 years. Why like a business – (1) You make sure you satisfy the essential day to day and week to week requirements (happy customers, finished...
This summer – Climbing Cradle Mountain with my Xero bag
Modulo eImagepac and Sage 300 Ops Inquiry Registry Virtualisation (UAC Virtualisation) Error
Some users, running Sage 6.5 (2018), cannot run Modulo eImagePac or the Sage 300 Options program Ops Inquiry (eg Item Inquiry), even though a user with administrative privileges can run them without error. In the case of eImagePac, the problem shows as the following...
Work Life Balance
#WorkLifeBalance: I was literally near the top of this mountain when I was called by a customer. It was after a hard day bushwalking for me, a hard day in the office for them. I explained to my client how to solve their issue in their payroll software,...
Small Business Soldier
This was one of my favourite books when I started in business. The publisher was “Information Australia”. I don’t think you could buy it now even if you wanted to. Does anybody know where you can find this now? ...
Have you had this Microsoft Access Error 3340: “Query ‘qryName’ is corrupt” this week?
One of our clients had a new error pop up in an otherwise perfectly working Microsoft Access program. We looked into it and discovered there was in fact nothing wrong with the program. The problem was down a brand new bug in Microsoft Access itself. It came...
Boat Weather Forecast player for Marine Rescue Burdekin
We recently upgraded Boat Weather Forecast Software to new Oceans Control KTA-223 hardware. The KTA-223 is a USB or RS-485 controlled IO module for interfacing PCs to real world applications, such as controlling lights and sprinkler systems, reading sensors...
Legislation passed – Single Touch Payroll reporting applicable to all businesses
The Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No.4) Bill has been passed today. This means that businesses with 19 employees or less employees will be required to report under Single Touch Payroll from 1 July 2019. This follows the commencement of Single Touch Payroll...
Big questions concerning 1 July 2019 Single Touch Payroll for micro businesses
The next STP deadline is 1 July 2019, for employers with 19 or less employees. The legislation, still before the Senate, has yet to be approved, but the ATO has advised that it is best practice to start preparing for the roll out as per the deadline. John...
Single Touch Payroll: Australia Heads for Untested Logjam
When Single Touch Payroll (STP) was first officially announced, it was said that in the period July 2017 to June 2018 “all businesses will be able to commence STP reporting”, with STP for companies with 20 or more employees compulsory from 1 July 2018. This optional...