GST & BAS Preparation Online Course

Learn how to prepare BAS calculations and understand GST concepts.

GST Short Course for preparing a BAS

This popular GST & BAS workshop covers the key concepts of GST and is suitable for anyone involved in business and BAS. Learn how to complete a Business Activity Statement (BAS) and Instalment Activity Statement (IAS) for your business.

In order to allow for the correct preparation of the BAS, it is important that all staff involved have sufficient GST knowledge and experience.

GST & BAS Course will cover how to:

  • Identify and classify GST sales and purchases
  • Classify GST Free supplies
  • Classify Input Taxed supplies
  • Obligations of registered entities for collection, correct record keeping and remittance of GST
  • Treatment of goods and services subject to special rules
  • Fuel Tax, Luxury Car Tax and FBT reporting 
  • Online Learning

  • 5 CPD hours

  • 12 Months unlimited access

  • Instant access, start NOW!

Nationally recognised qualification also available
Bookkeeping BAS CPD CPE Hours

GST and BAS Online Course Options

GST and BAS
Short Course

5 CPD Hours

Online
Instant Access Anytime
Includes digital learning material
Learn How Australian GST and BAS is processed
12 Months Access

 

$249

Accounts and Payroll Bundle

Enrol in all 5 online courses

Payroll Administration - 27 CPD Hours
Salary Packaging - 17 CPD Hours
Terminations Workshop - 15 CPD Hours
GST & BAS Workshop - 5 CPD Hours
Budgeting and Forecasting - 8 CPD Hours

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$845

Corporate Pack
10 User Access

Enrol staff into 10 online courses

Upskill your team to match your business needs

Courses in Accounts, Payroll, Xero & MYOB

Choose from 14 online short courses, all with video tutorials and training manuals

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$1290

Not sure which course is right for you? Call us on 1800 678 073 for a consultation with a course coordinator or book an enrolment consultation.

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  • Training Manual

    Comprehensive manual written in-house and regularly updated to reflect latest changes in legislation.

  • Student Support

    Access our Bookkeeping & Accounting Study Group

  • Online Video Tutorials

    Hundreds of tutorials covering key learning concepts

What you will learn

At the completion of this GST & BAS Online Training, participants will have covered;

  • What is GST
  • How the GST system works
  • Registering for GST
  • Taxable sales, GST Free sales, Input taxed sales
  • Partly taxable sales (or mixed supplies)
  • Issuing tax invoices
  • Claiming GST credits
  • Adjustments
  • Correcting GST mistakes
  • Record keeping, FBT and the BAS
  • PAYG Withholding, PAYG Instalments 
  • Electronic Lodgement Guidelines
  • Wine Equalisation Tax, Luxury Car Tax, Fuel Tax Credits
  • Simplified BAS

Understand the basics

  • Chapter 1-1 Business Structures
  • Chapter 1-2 Australian Tax System
  • Chapter 1-3 Accounting System
  • Chapter 2-1 What is a BAS Agent?
  • Chapter 2-2 Tax Practitioners Board (TPB)
  • Chapter 2-3 Who needs to register?
  • Chapter 2-4 Registration Requirements
  • Chapter 2-5 Maintaining your BAS Agent Registration
  • Chapter 2-6 Breach of the (TPB) Code of Professional Conduct
  • Chapter 2-7 Privacy Act
  • Chapter 2-8 ATO Website - Tax Professionals
  • Chapter 3-1 GST Legislation
  • Chapter 3-2 How does the GST system work?
  • Chapter 3-3 Registration & Turnover
  • Chapter 3-4 Methods of reporting GST
  • Chapter 3-5 Types of supplies
  • Chapter 3-6 Issue and obtain valid tax invoices
  • Chapter 3-7 When do you report and pay GST
  • Chapter 3-8 Flow of GST Decisions
  • Chapter 3-9 GST Registration Confirmation
  • Chapter 3-10 GST labels
  • Chapter 3-11 Connecting GST labels to Reporting Methods
  • Chapter 3-12 Other GSt elements including Simplified GST for Food Retailers, GST and Second-hand Goods, Deferred GST Scheme and more
  • Chapter 4-1 Withholding Obligations
  • Chapter 4-2 PAYG Withholding Labels
  • Chapter 4-3 PAYGW and Activity Statements
  • Chapter 4-4 PAYGW Registration
  • Chapter 5-1 PAYGI Registration
  • Chapter 5-2 PAYGI Options
  • Chapter 5-3 Calculating PAYGI Income (T1)
  • Chapter 6-1 Luxury Car Tax (LCT)
  • Chapter 6-2 Wine Equalisation Tax (WET)
  • Chapter 6-3 Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT)
  • Chapter 6-4 Fuel Tax Credits
  • Chapter 7-1 Prepare and Lodge IAS
  • Chapter 7-2 Paying the Activity Statement
  • Chapter 8-1 Prepare and Lodge BAS
  • Chapter 8-2 Entering the BAS Journal
  • Chapter 8-3 Paying the Activity Statement
  • Chapter 9-1 Definition of a GST error
  • Chapter 9-2 Claiming a GST credit on a later activity statement
  • Chapter 9-3 Revising an earlier activity statement
  • Chapter 9-4 GST adjustments

GST & BAS Online Training Course Information

Upon completing the course, you will receive a Digital Certificate of Achievement. Each certificate includes:

  • Immediate access via the learning platform, available after successfully completing the Test Your Knowledge quiz at the end of the course.
  • A secure digital PDF featuring a QR code for easy authenticity verification.
  • Recognition of 5 CPD hours

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Certificate shown are for illustration purpose only.

Most students complete the online GST course in around 5 hours. You will have 12 months access to the tutorials. Study online at a pace that suits your personal situation.

  • Online Access to Learning Tutorials
  • Course Presentation Videos
  • Electronic pdf Learner Guide
  • Activity sheets and calculation templates

The course content is accessed via our online student portal with additional learning materials also available. Please note due to copyright the digital training manuals cannot be printed. Hard copies can be ordered when enroling in your course.

Need to upskill staff or members of your organisation? The Accounts Corporate Package includes 10 individual coupons to access the full suite of our accounting and bookkeeping online short courses.

Each course come with comprehensive online learning material, video tutorials and a Certificate of Participation on completion of the course.

Easy to use:

  1. Enrol now and pay upfront.
  2. Receive an email with 10 enrolment coupons and instructions on how to enrol your staff.
  3. Coupons are valid for 12 months.
  4. Choose any single online course, from the list below, your staff require.
  5. When a coupon is activated, the staff member has 12 months to complete the course.
  6. Get instant access to online course.
  7. Coupons are not valid for bundles and hard copy manuals.

The Online Short Courses that you can choose from are:

  • Payroll Administration in Australian
  • Salary Packaging and FBT
  • GST and BAS
  • Employee Terminations
  • Budgets and Forecasting
  • Xero Accounting
  • Xero Payroll
  • Xero Account Payable and Accounts Receivable
  • Xero Advanced
  • MYOB AccountRight Bookkeeping
  • MYOB AccountRight Payroll
  • MYOB AccountRight Advanced
  • MYOB Business (Lite & Pro) Bookkeeping
  • MYOB Business (Lite & Pro) Payroll

GST & BAS Course Overview

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