APL ACCOUNTANTS LATEST NEWS July 2019  www.aplaccountants.com.au   Phone 07 3488 0131 End of Year Payment Summaries We are sending this newsletter out just before the end of June, because we want to make sure you have got your payroll organised!! If you haven’t yet registered for single touch payroll do it right now - before you carry on reading this. If you are on xero here is how - https://central.xero.com/s/article/Set-up-Single-Touch-Payroll-STP If you are on Single Touch Payroll then you no longer need to go through the laborious and tedious process of payroll summaries for your staff. Simply finalise your data in payroll before 31 July 2019. Their information will be available to them in myGov. https://central.xero.com/s/article/Finalise-Single-Touch-Payroll-data Whilst we are thinking about payroll remember that the award will increase from 1 July 2019 - make sure you update the hourly rate for any employees that this affects. Worried about the … [Read more...]

This week we interviewed seasoned consultants Chris and Louisa on all the common questions we get at APL Accountants regarding employee/employer relations. These questions have now been answered as the guests were not sure on the live interview: Is there leave loading on long service leave: Typically annual leave loading is not paid on top of long service leave entitlements (only on annual leave) however as this is a state based legislation it is advised that business do quick the specific state based legislation relating to long service leave.   RDO on public holiday - do you get another day instead: The Animal Care and Veterinary Services Award 2010 states for Veterinary Surgeons: (a) Full-time associates who do not regularly work a five day, Monday to Friday week will not be disadvantaged by the fact that a prescribed public holiday falls upon a day when the associate would not be working. The appropriate compensation is: (i) an alternative day … [Read more...]

June Need to call us? We would like to make it as easy as possible for you to get hold of us, without waiting to be put through to somebody or leaving messages to be called back. As you can imagine, it gets very difficult to make contact once you go into consultations or operating theatre. You can book us directly on the same day at a time you know that you will be available and so will we. So we are saying 'no' to the inefficiency of phone tag and 'yes' to direct bookings for phone calls where we will call you at your chosen time. This way we are completely focused on you and your call.   For clients that need to speak directly to Anne or Paolo then just book a 10 minute call on our calendly link, that way we don’t play phone tag. For Anne:  https://calendly.com/anne-apl For Paolo: https://calendly.com/paolo-lencioni For Bookkeeping and Payroll queries: https://calendly.com/bookkeeping-payroll For Profitdiagnostix queries: https://calendly.com/profit-diagnostix You … [Read more...]

May The dates for our client workshops are as follows: Tuesday 27 August –  Sydney Friday 6 September –  Brisbane plus web streaming for this event if you prefer not to travel. Tuesday 29 October – Melbourne Book a date with us, some venues have limited spaces! ATO Natural Disaster Relief If you were affected by the North Queensland flooding in January and February 2019, you may be eligible for a payment and lodgement extension to 31 May 2019 with the ATO. For full details and the postcodes affected vist the ATO here. APL Web Masterclass Just another reminder we have a web masterclass planned each month focusing on a different strategy to improve your best practice performance, staff engagement, and your clients overall experience. Each month our masterclass will focus on one thing and we will be recording your results using Profitdiagnostix to see how well you perform. We will be selecting a charity through B1G1 and making a donation to the chosen charity for the … [Read more...]