It’s never been more important for small South Eastern Queensland businesses to be right on their game.

In today’s business environment not only are businesses dealing with all the usual pressures, but the current Covid driven business environment has seen massive shifts, in how people deal in the marketplace and how they seek out businesses and the expectations they have of them.

Few businesses, particularly small businesses, had ever given matters like pandemics and health based operating procedures any thought just two years ago, today they are front centre of so much of what business operators and managers time use and work activities are focused on.

All of this, like just about everything in business, comes back to how it impacts the financial accounts of a business and the time pressures on the business operator themselves. These two critical items are typically closely related, poor financial management usually sees a business operator stressed and spending ever more amounts of time engaged in trying to keep a struggling enterprise afloat.

Sound bookkeeping practices rest at the heart of giving a business operator the critical, fact based financial information they need and in turn, allows them to better allocate their skills and time to the things that will likely deliver the best “bang for their buck”. A smart business operator should aim to fight to their strengths and place the more vulnerable areas in the hands of a trained expert. Keeping a set of professional and factually informative business “books” is typically a skill best handled by a registered bookkeeping professional.

South East Queensland Businesses should ensure they deal with a trained and registered bookkeeper when seeking to get information rich financial and operational insights from their own business accounts and in so doing, help free up their own precious time resources.

Business owners and operators should ask, is my bookkeeper a registered member of the Australian Institute of Certified Bookkeepers, are they Registered BAS Agent, are they certified in leading accounting software programs like Xero and MYOB and very importantly, do they have a sound track record of delivering for their clients?

Having an experienced bookkeeper that meets the above requirements, will help better position any South East Queensland small business to deal with the challenges of the current uncertain operating environment and also, by using the real facts gained from the financial insights their business accounts show them, better position their business for future growth, as the world looks beyond the Pandemic of last 18 months or so.

Authorised by
Sylvia Vella
17 September, 2021
Registered Bookkeeper & BAS Agent
Ripley, Queensland
T: +61[0]438 590 112
W: sylviasmobilebookkeeping.com.au