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Xero Best Practice Top 10 Tips

There are often several ways of doing the same thing in accountancy and that goes for using Xero too.  Sometimes these different ways can be equally good but at other times the best method might depend on your personal preference or the way your business works or who will be using the file or the reports.  …

The Fascination of Accountancy

  Do you find accountancy fascinating?  Some of my clients love it.  I’ve met engineers, stock brokers, shop keepers, hoteliers and others who want to do as much of the work as possible themselves though they’ve never had any accountancy training.  I enjoy training my clients and am happy to tell them as much as …

Payroll in Japan

Payroll in Japan can get quite complicated with basic wages, overtime and bonuses less deductions for income tax, residents tax, health insurance, over 40 health insurance, pension and labour insurance, not forgetting the employer’s contribution to employees’ health insurance, pension and labour insurance.  Then of course you not only do you have to pay employees …

Finding a Japanese Tax Agent

Most businesses need to engage a tax accountant to help them prepare and lodge a tax return at the end of each financial year.  I also recommend that businesses with employees should generally get a Japanese tax accountant to prepare the employee payroll, or at least have a Japanese tax accountant on call for questions …

MYOB or Xero?

A few years ago I took a quick look at Xero and felt its accounting features were not strong enough to justify changing from MYOB. It was totally online but I didn’t consider the benefits of an online accounting program at all. In October 2012, MYOB released its online version and I was keen to …