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One stop for all of your Continuous Professional Education CPE Courses
Are you meeting your CPE requirements with the Tax Practitioners Board and the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers? It is now possible to meet your full requirements with one simple, cost effective, annual subscription.
We offer a series of YouTube Live Online webinars with topics specifically designed to upskill and update bookkeepers and BAS agents. Ensure that you stay on top of the latest issues of the profession and meet your CPE obligations.
Our highly qualified trainers have been delivering industry-relevant training solutions to some of Australia’s leading companies and government organisations for many years. Their training is supported by in-depth materials and continual feedback systems that allowing us to improve and refine what we offer to meet the demands of the ever-evolving workplace.
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Upcoming Sessions
Entertainment expenditure can be a minefield for Bookkeepers. Get clarification of the various types of entertainment expenses and how to code them correctly. Topics include:
- Tax deductibility of entertainment
- Key ruling to determine the correct coding
- The difference between staff amenities and entertainment
- Setting up your chart of accounts and processing entertainment
- When food and drink is not classified as entertainment eg. Travel
This session is designed for Bookkeepers to get more out of the functionality of MYOB and provide a better service to your clients. You will learn how to:
- Create jobs and sub-jobs
- Create job budgets and compare actuals v budgets
- Integrate job costing timesheets with payroll
- Invoicing a job
- Job reporting
Designed to give bookkeepers the basics of taxation , assessable income, allowable deductions and the effects on coding of transactions. Topics include:
- choosing a business structure
- registering a business for tax purposes
- calculating income tax
- assessable income
- allowable deductions what you can claim
- claiming motor vehicle expenses
- tax concessions for small business
Designed to give bookkeepers the basics of taxation , assessable income, allowable deductions and the effects on coding of transactions. Topics include:
- choosing a business structure
- registering a business for tax purposes
- calculating income tax
- assessable income
- allowable deductions what you can claim
- claiming motor vehicle expenses
- tax concessions for small business
Get yourself up to date with the latest features and functions of this popular accounting package. You will be taken through key development in areas such as:
- Projects
- Payroll including an STP update
- Invoicing
- Simplified BAS
This session looks at how you set up and process various terminations in Xero.
- Normal termination
- Redundancy
- Employment Termination Payments
Learn the theory of bad and doubtful debts and how to process these entries.
- The difference between bad and doubtful debts
- Bad and doubtful debt transactions
- Developing your bad and doubtful debts policy
- Tax deductibility
Learn how to get the best out of the reporting module in Xero by examining:
- Report settings
- Editing Layouts
- Adding text and columns
- Saving custom reports
- Exporting and publishing reports
Make the most out of the inventory module in MYOB and learn the full functionality.
- Physical V Perpetual Inventory
- Setting up inventory
- Recording purchases and sales
- Stock take
- Inventory valuation
This session will get you up to speed on the new rules surrounding annualised salaries to ensure that you comply. It covers:
- The new rules
- Awards effected
- Performing the annual reconciliation
This session is designed to give bookkeepers and awareness of fringe benefits tax, in particular:
- What is a fringe benefit
- How is FBT calculated
- Types of benefits
- Salary packaging basics
Keep abreast of the latest superannuation rules. In particular:
- SGC Amnesty
- Change in rule for Sal Sac
- Rates and thresholds
This session addresses:
- Key differences in terminology and setups
- Using jobs to track grant money
- Reporting
Recorded Sessions
Get up to date with the latest legislation for payroll officers and business owners. Topics include:
- domestic violence leave
- casual and part time entitlements
- cultural & religious holidays
- protecting vulnerable workers
- penalty rate changes in some awards
Learn about these termination methods and how to process them in your software package. Topics include:
- Key definitions
- Tax Free treatment
- Dealing with the excess over the tax free amount (ETP)
- Termination checklist
- Demonstration of a termination in MYOB
Get Free access to this session recording when you enrol in 12 months subscription
Learn how to setup and lodge your payroll information using single touch payroll in these two popular packages. Topics include:
- checking your payroll employee details
- fixing errors
- assign ATO categories to your payroll categories
- connecting to the ATO
- payroll reporting
Get free access to this past session when you enrol in 12 months subscription.
Gain an awareness of the mandatory National Employment Standards (NES) and how it affects employment arrangements. Topics include:
- Who the standards apply to
- Overview of each of the 10 standards
- Effects of the standards on employment arrangements
Get free access to this past session when you enrol in 12 months subscription.
Get an update of changes in rates and thresholds together with any other factors affecting payroll processing for the 2019/20 financial year. Topics include:
- Single Touch Payroll Update
- Allowances
- Fairwork changes
- Payroll Tax rates
- Updated tax rates and thresholds
- Changes to termination payments (under awards)
- Long service leave changes (VIC)
Get free access to this past session when you enrol in 12 months subscription.
Are you paying your employees correctly? Learn how to find and interpret the Modern Awards that apply to your business or industry. Topics include:
- Overview of modern awards
- The award finder
- Award interpretation
- Application and Operation
- Consultation and Dispute Resolution
- Types of Employment
- Classification and Minimum Wage Rates
- Hours of Work and Related Matters
- The ramifications and costs of incorrect modern award interpretations
Get free access to this past session when you enrol in 12 months subscription.
Make sure that you are completing the BAS correctly in the following key areas:
- Processing motor vehicle purchases
- Finance arrangements
- Purchasing vehicles costing more than the motor vehicle cost limit
- Trade-ins
- GST on inputs
- The latest FTC rates
- Tips on tracking and coding fuel usage and FTC transactions
Logical functions are used to compare values to return different results. They have numerous applications for bookkeepers as you will find out in this session. You will be using IF, AND, and OR statement to perform operations such as:
- Pass fail operations
- Sales and commission calculations
- “Nested Ifs”
- Product pricing based on quantity
- Error elimination
Get free access to this past session when you enrol in 12 months subscription.
Learn how to design financial formulas using Excel that you will be able to use in:
- borrowing and financial schedules.
- investing formulas
- discounting formulas
- depreciation formulas
Get free access to this past session when you enrol in 12 months subscription.
Learn the fundamentals of depreciation and how to process deprecation in Xero. Topics include:
- Depreciation concepts
- Tax depreciation options
- Purchasing Assets
- Setting up depreciation in Xero
- Running depreciation and posting entries
- Depreciation reporting
Course Information
Are you a registered BAS agent? Do you find it difficult to find the time to complete your continuing professional education (CPE) requirements?
Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) requires all registered BAS agents to undertake ongoing CPE.
To check you are meeting your requirements you can go to the TPB website. Applied Education's CPE Club is your one stop for all your continuing professional education needs to maintain registration.
What is CPE Club?
CPE Club is an annual subscription to a series of 1-hour webinars that address topics relevant to bookkeepers and BAS agents and meet their CPE requirements.
Sessions are delivered via our YouTube Live Online platform which can be viewed in any location and on any device. You can watch the live session on your computer or mobile device and ask questions during the session.
The topics are chosen based on our research of industry standards, needs and work practices.
How does CPE Club Work?
You can subscribe at any time. There will be regular live sessions over a 12-month subscription and you will also have access to previous recorded webinars. Each session lasts for one hour.
For the live session, all you need to do is log in to the student platform at the nominated start time and join the session. You will receive a CPD certificate for each session you attend on completion of a short quiz at the end of the session.
All webinars will be recorded and can be watched at a later time if you are not able to attend a Live session or want to go back and review a session.
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