One of my favourite stores is that I tell everyone to go to is Lyssy Mays in Morningside. If I ever need a present for a female, I enjoy a 10 minute stop at her store. I like the simplicity, consistency and uniqueness of the wide array of handmade gifts she sells. I never have [...]
LARGE EMAILS
Typically you can only send an email under 5MB. This is determined by your service provider. I use BIGPOND. If you are require to send or receive an email over this size I suggest you use http://www.yousendit.com/ they have a free service for lite users that is quite simple to activate and use.
Microsoft Outlook Inbox Repair Tool
I have just learnt of a new tool – the Microsoft Outlook Inbox Repair Tool. The Outlook database is stored in a file, with the extension name pst. PST stands for Personal Storage Table. The Repair Tool optimises the data file by scanning it to see if it is intact, and resets & rebuilds if [...]
Creating your own Press Release?
If you are trying your hand at generating your own media releases you could try this useful tool;http://www.pressreleasegrader.com/ “HubSpot's Press Release Grader evaluates your press release and provides a marketing effectiveness score. This score is based upon basic factors from public relations experts including the language and content of the release, plus advanced factors from [...]
Giant Maps
Off topic - but pretty cool. These are giant maps you can borrow in America. Read more about them here; http://www.ngsednet.org/community/index.cfm?community_id=515from Heather Smith ~ MYOB Certified Consultant
Technology
Around this time of the year, business owners are busily burning their ATO empdupe file to disk. I have a reasonable understanding of technology, but when it comes to burning files to discs nothing ever seems to work as it should. It tried for about an hour, on both computers and no luck. I tried [...]
Heather Smith accepted as a ACCA representative on the ATO BAG
Heather Smith has recently been accepted as the representative of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants on the Australian Taxation Office Bookkeeping Advisory Group.The Bookkeeper Advisory Group is a key consultation forum used by the Tax Office to seek views from bookkeepers, bookkeeping associations and nominated representatives of professional associations on Tax Office decision making [...]
Is your accounting software providing you with useful financial reports?
Whatever software package you choose to use, the management information that it generates is only as good as the information entered into the package. What Financial Information Do You Need To Manage Your Business?At a very basic level you need to be looking at your Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, Aged Payables and Aged Receivable [...]
How fair is the Australian Taxation system
I recently attended a very interesting seminar on “How fair is the Australian Taxation system”, presented by the ACCA. It posed many interesting questions.Are we doing the work of the government by self assessing? Should we be paid for this? (Of note when I lived in England in the 90’s, it was not a requirement [...]
We are Finalists!
We have just had word that ANISE Consulting has been shortlisted as one of the 6 finalists in the South-East Advertiser Business Achiever Awards 2008. Thank-you to everyone who voted for us!from Heather Smith ~ MYOB Certified Consultant