One stop for all Continuous Professional Education CPE Courses
We offer a series of professional online webinars and tutorials with topics specifically designed to upskill and update bookkeepers and BAS agents.
Join us and stay on top of the latest issues and gain knowledge to excel in today’s dynamic work environment while meeting your CPE and CPD obligations.
We have been providing specialist training in accounting, bookkeeping and payroll since 1999. Our highly qualified trainers have been delivering industry-relevant training solutions to some of Australia’s leading companies and government organisations for many years.
CPE Club
for all Bookkeepers and BAS Agents
12 Month Subscription
Access 15 Sessions and all past topics
Instant access to CPE Library
Upcoming webinars
covering best practice and industry updates
Watch webinars from anywhere, on any device at a time that suits you
12 months access
to future and all past CPE sessions
$495
Enrol Anytime
Are you meeting your CPE-CPD 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. More information about the TPB's requirement for continuing professional education for BAS agents can be found here.
Our online training is researched and presented by one of our expert team of trainers. Our CPE sessions are 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.
The webinars are available on our easy-to-navigate Learning Platform and include quizzes to test your knowledge and Certificates of Achievement on completion.
Applied Education also offers the TPB BAS Agent Skill Set if you already hold a relevant accounting qualification and a looking to become a BAS agent.
CPE Club Information
For BAS Agents
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) requires all registered BAS agents to undertake ongoing continuing professional education (CPE).
For Bookkeepers
Continuing Professional Development advances your knowledge and allows you to stay up to date on legislative changes, including the latest ATO rates and rulings and FairWork updates.
Join the CPE Club - the one place for all your professional learning
CPE Club is an annual subscription to a series of 1-hour professional webinars that address topics relevant to bookkeepers and BAS agents and meet their CPE/CPD requirements.
The topics are chosen based on our research of industry standards, needs and work practices.
How does CPE Club Work?
You can join any time to a rolling annual subscription. There will be 15 new sessions over a 12-month subscription, and you will have access to previously recorded webinars. Each session lasts for one hour.
You will receive a CPD certificate for each webinar on completion of a short quiz at the end of the presentation.
All webinars are recorded and available on your platform for 12 months for you to watch and review when and where is convenient to you.
Once enrolled you will have instant access to the CPE Library of previous webinars.
Our trainers and assessors are certified 'subject matter experts' and have years of practical experience working in the accounting and bookkeeping industry.
Each accessor has a wealth of knowledge and experience on their particular subjects and keeps their professional development regularly updated. We are proud to have been rated 4.5/5 stars on both Google Reviews and Trustpilot by our past students.
The team includes:
- Brett Thornett - CPA and Director at Applied Education
- Janelle Bruzzese - BAS Agent, Xero Certified Trainer and Senior Trainer and Assessor at Applied Education
- Jennifer Forbes - CPA, BAS Agent and Trainer and Assessor Manager at Applied Education
The CPE Club is an annual subscription that you can join at any time for a rolling 12-months subscription.
Each session lasts for one hour; this includes the webinar and the quiz to test your understanding of the topic.
You will have 12 months' access to the tutorials. Study online at a pace that suits your lifestyle.
The course is accessed via our online learning portal, with additional resources and extra learning materials also available.
- Online Access to Learning Tutorials
- Course Presentation Slides
- Fact sheets
- Resources and Publications, where applicable
We strive to provide excellent communication for all participants of learning at Applied Education. We send an email reminder to let you know when the latest webinar has been released and provide technical support should you have any issues with the learning platform.
- Digital Certificate of Achievement for each session
- The Certificate is available as printable PDF and has a QR Code to verify authenticity.
- CPD Hours each session
- Short Online Assessments to test your knowledge are included on the Student Learning Platform with a Certificate available after successful completion of the quiz.
Upcoming Sessions
CPE Library
Past Recorded Webinars
All webinars are recorded and available on the learning platform. You can watch past sessions to enhance your professional development, refresh your knowledge or catch-up on a webinar that you missed.
Each webinar in the CPE Library includes a Certificate of Participation and 1 CPE hour.
- What is a fringe benefit?
- How is FBT calculated?
- Types of benefits
- Salary packaging basics
- Report settings
- Editing Layouts
- Adding text and columns
- Saving custom reports
- Exporting and publishing reports
- The difference between bad and doubtful debts
- Bad and doubtful debt transactions
- Developing your bad and doubtful debts policy
- Tax deductibility
- Projects
- Payroll including Single Touch Payroll (STP) update
- Invoicing
- Simplified BAS
- 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
- 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
- Normal termination
- Redundancy
- Employment Termination Payments
- Create jobs and sub-jobs
- Create job budgets and compare actuals v budgets
- Integrate job costing timesheets with payroll
- Invoicing a job
- Job reporting
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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
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
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
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
Key Benefits
Accreditation & industry partners
