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How cheap to go for your MYOB and Xero Bookkeeping Course

Training courses are designed for people who want to be taken on a learning journey that gives them practical skills to help them remember what they learn.

The olden days

Before the Internet, a training course usually involved

  1. finding a good training centre within 20kms
  2. reviewing their course schedule for course duration and session times
  3. enrolling before all available seats were taken
  4. going to a physical training centre,
  5. being shown how to perform a task, and then
  6. having a go yourself.

If you got stuck you’d put your hand up and the trainer would come over, see what you’ve been doing and then correct you and explain what you did wrong.

Then you’d all have a tea break with coffee and Tim Tams and chat for 30 minutes (but it should have been a 15 minute break). Does that sound familiar?

Videos, Workbooks, Support

Now it’s the same but different.

  1. you can enrol and start whenever you have time,
  2. the training instruction is delivered via video (and replayed as often as needed).
  3. you don’t need to travel and can learn from home
  4. you can use website chat, email, sms and phone if you get stuck
  5. have a coffee and whatever you want to eat from your fridge or pantry

Videos are easy

The biggest change we’ve noticed is how easy it is for anyone to create a training video. Some of these videos are of people speaking (talking head videos) and others are screen recordings using the software.

There are thousands of great bookkeepers and accountants and they can all create videos to explain how to use the software – and you can watch most of them for free online and particularly at Youtube.

The hardest part of creating a course is to design the learning journey that starts with basic skills and then gets gradually more complex, building on the basic skills you’ve just learnt.

With bookkeeping this normally means doing the full cycle of

  1. quoting,
  2. invoicing,
  3. accounts receivable and
  4. receiving payment.

But none of this normally goes to plan. If you’re a course designer you will know about some of the tricky things that can happen and build them into the learning journey. That’s what we’ve done with our courses.

Videos are cheap

If you can’t afford a premium short course which also includes:

  1. training workbooks,
  2. practical tasks,
  3. support when you need it and
  4. a certificate to demonstrate you’re competent,

then access to a video library is one of the cheapest ways you can learn. When you choose our training libraries you can have the confidence that the videos flow from one logical step to the next.

Click the Learn Express logo below to see the training video library options.

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If you find you need support AND the training manual you can explore one of the tutoring packages.

Tutoring for one on one attention

Tutoring in how to use Xero and MYOB has always been popular for students who need the complete attention of a trainer. They’ve become more popular in the last few years because companies like Airtasker entice contractors onto their platform and then promote them – but have you ever used Airtasker?

We’ve heard from people who’ve used Airtasker for delivering things or other handy man tasks that haven’t gone that well. Many people have had a great experience but the problem with the Airtasker platform is that you never get any of the persons contact details until you choose one person and pay your money.

Even then, some Airtaskers will communicate with you solely through the Airtasker platform rather than give you their email address and mobile number.

With our tutors you know who you’re getting and they know their stuff.

Click on Trevor Turners ad below to see our tutors and tutoring packages.MYOB & Xero Bookkeeping Tutoring For Beginners - Trevor

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A Catch-Up / Rescue Bookkeeping Case Study

Catch-Up / Rescue Bookkeeping – A Case Study

While every bookkeeping job comes with its own set of unique tasks, clients seeking catch-up (or Rescue Bookkeeping) tend to bring with them a host of relatively predictable (if dynamic) issues that you can manage effectively if you are aware of them.

A typical catch-up bookkeeping scenario

Recently we were contacted by the operator of a sole trader business – “Peter” (not his real name), seeking help with his bookkeeping backlog.

Many of the issues he identified are relatively standard in the rescue bookkeeping world. Becoming familiar with them will help you to effectively help your clients in the future.

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Get More Bookkeeping Work from Existing Clients – What to Look For

Clarifying your client’s needs as you get more involved

As a bookkeeping tutor or trainer, just as when you are working as a bookkeeper, you need to make sure that you have a clear understanding of exactly what your client needs are, right from the outset.

Once you have established your client’s precise needs, you are more able to deliver a value for money service, as well as understand fully the parameters of the job.

Or, if your client’s needs go beyond what you’re capable of delivering, with an understanding of what they are after, you can provide direction, and refer them to a colleague within your referral network.

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Understanding Your Clients Needs Because NOT ALL Customers are Ideal

Understanding Your Clients Needs

When speaking with or taking on a new client, it’s important to ask the right questions so that you can be sure that you are the right person for the job, and if not, be ready to refer within your own network.

Asking targeted questions also enables you to develop an understanding of the person you will be working with. Knowing this, you are able to foreshadow (and then plan for and avoid) potential future issues, and focus on the client’s problem areas.

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Catch-up Bookkeeping – Know The Risks for Rescue Bookkeeping

Helping a Business Catch-up with their Bookkeeping has Risks. Here are the risks for Rescue bookkeeping work?

There is no doubt that opportunities are abundant in the world of catch-up bookkeeping. This is because even the most organised among us have at times let things slide when it comes to our businesses money matters.

However, if you are taking on this kind of bookkeeping work, it is important to remember that it can come with some significant risks and pitfalls that you need to identify and plan for.

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Apple Made MYOB Push Essentials to Compete Head On With Xero

Fortnite publisher Epic Games decided to pick a fight with Apple over the fees that Apple earn from apps in their Appstore. MYOB recently made a decision to discontinue their Mac version of accounting software called MYOB AccountEdge because of a change in the iOS software that runs most Apple PC’s. It’s interesting to see the effect that Apple is having on lots of different software companies but for bookkeepers it means one less software program to learn!