Ah, End of Financial Year. For most business owners, it's that magical time where receipts emerge from gloveboxes, spreadsheets come out of hiding, and the phrase "Can you just quickly..." becomes a daily mantra.
But what about your humble bookkeeper? What are we doing this time of year?
Spoiler alert: It's not sipping chardonnay on a yacht.
1. Performing Interpretive Dance with Your Receipts
Is that a faded fuel receipt? A coffee-stained Bunnings docket? Or a treasure map? No one knows. But we will squint, scan, sniff, and decode it like forensic accountants at CSI: BAS Edition. Because sometimes our tools don't know either. You know I love tech but even Hubdoc goes ?? its called the failed file - coz you failed if it has a chew mark from the dog right on the amount Hubdoc doesn't deal…
2. Chasing You Like a Debt Collector (but for Your Invoices)
"Hi, just checking if you've uploaded those missing invoices?"
"Hi again, just wondering if you've had a chance to look at those invoices I mentioned..."
Hi, it's me. I'm now texting your mum.
3. Having Existential Crises Over Rounding Errors
You might think "It's just 4 cents, what's the big deal?"
To us, it's war. We will not rest until the Xero balance reconciles. Even if it means talking to the dog about suspense accounts at 2am. This is me reconciling your Gross wages on STP to your Profit & Loss.
Again your software tells you Payroll is a report to the ATO job done. Some of us really want what is in the books for payroll to be exactly what the ATO sees. Never considered that… mm you might need a bookkeeper. It's the little things that might mean a big difference in the long run.
4. Being the Basil Fawlty of BAS
Don't mention the A word. Or the T word. Or ask if it's "a good time" to chat. It is never a good time. We are elbow-deep in STP lodgements, superannuation reconciliations, and GST apocalypses, Award updates, superannuation increases.
5. Drinking Coffee Like It's a Tax Deduction
It's not, sadly. But that won't stop us from pretending it is. FYI, caffeine is a legitimate bookkeeping fuel source at EOFY. Just don't ask us how many cups. It's a write-off... emotionally. But by all means hand us another one.
6. Trying to Make Your Financials Look Less Like a Picasso Painting
"Business meals" in the office expenses category.
Six subscriptions to the same software.
That random "Miscellaneous" folder that's now 40% of your expenses.
We're not judging. (Okay, maybe a little.) But we are fixing it along with the list above for ALL of our clients so if we don't answer a call don't come looking for us. Unless its with coffee pre 3pm, wine post 8pm… maybe 9?
7. Holding It Together With Excel and Sheer Spite
EOFY is our Olympics. And while the spreadsheet might crash, and our eye might twitch when you say "I just remembered another bank account," we will get your accounts closed off and shipshape.So this EOFY, send us your missing receipts, approve that last payroll, and maybe... just maybe... send us a chocolate bar. Or a bottle of wine. Both?
