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Do you want to be a Bookkeeper . . . or a BAS Agent?
If the answer is YES you have come to
the right place . . .
The
Bookkeeping Institute of Australia is the only
Registered Training Organisation in Australia providing a
Total
Solution Program for new bookkeepers to become BAS
Agents under the Tax Agent Services Regulations 2009.
Under the new regulatory
regime, which commenced on 1 March 2010, bookkeepers must be registered
BAS Agents, or
working under the supervision and control of
a BAS Agent or Tax Agent, in
order to provide BAS agent services for a fee or to "engage
in other conduct connected with providing such services."
In
order to register, a bookkeeper
must hold a Certificate IV in
Bookkeeping, or higher, and
have undertaken at least 1,400
hours of relevant experience,
working under the direction of a
BAS Agent or Tax Agent, in the
previous 3 years. Employed work
for your own or another business will not
necessarily count.
Just obtaining your Cert IV
is not enough! If you want to
start a contact bookkeeping
business you must be able to
gain the relevant experience.
The
Bookkeeping Institute of Australia will not
only enable you to obtain the
nationally recognised
Certificate IV in Bookkeeping but
through our strategic partnership with the
Australian
Bookkeepers Network and with BAS
Agent
ABN BAS
you
will also be able to gain the relevant experience you need
and to start operating a contract bookkeeping business
whenever you feel you are ready. This is achieved by your
lodging your clients BAS returns legally through ABN BAS.
That's right, while working with
ABN BAS,
you will be gaining your 1,400 hours for registration as a
BAS Agent in your own right. If you want to know more just
click here for more
information regarding the
ABN BAS
option
or check out the ABN
fact sheet "Quality Assurance
Reviews & BAS Lodgement."
As part of
the
Bookkeeping Institute of Australia's
Total
Solution Program
for new bookkeepers you
will not only qualify with a
FNS40207
Certificate IV in Bookkeeping
but you will also qualify for
the
FNS30107
Certificate III in Financial
Services which is the nationally
recognised qualification on
which the BIA Bookkeeping
Certificate is based.
The
Bookkeeping Institute of Australia is also the
only training provider to offer you the choice of taking our
Total
Solution Program
Certificate IV in Bookkeeping or our more comprehensive
BI-580 Start Your
Own Bookkeeping Business Program which is designed to help bookkeepers wanting to start their own BAS and Bookkeeping
business.
Don't be fooled by other
uninformed training
organisations into thinking that
all you need is a Certificate IV, or
that experience working in your
own family business or as an
employee (other than for a BAS
Agent or Tax Agent) will count against the
1,400 hours.
Unless you are a transitional BAS agent the only experience
that will count are BAS services
performed under the "supervision
and control of a tax agent
... or a
BAS agent registered under the
Act."
ABN BAS
qualify as
such an agent and your
experience as a bookkeeper
working with them will count.
Experienced Bookkeepers
If you are an
established self-employed
bookkeeper, running a contract
bookkeeping business, and
are registered as a
transitional BAS agent you will
still be required to hold a
Certificate IV in Bookkeeping, or
higher, in order to apply for
re-registration as a BAS agent
on 1 March 2012.
The
Bookkeeping Institute of Australia
recognises that you already know
a great deal and that it is
unnecessary for you to study
every aspect of the course and
that that you probably are very
familiar with MYOB.
Consequently we have created a
fastrack
FNS40207
Certificate IV in Bookkeeping
only
course for experienced
bookkeepers which is
significantly less expensive
than our
Total
Solution Program
for new bookkeepers.
You also have the option of only
taking the assessments at an
even lesser price. Assessment
only is less expensive and a
better option than RPL
(Recognition of Prior Learning)
which is very demanding in terms of the production of
evidence, verification
and referees.
And if you are an ABN or a full
ICB member (not a student
member) you will receive a
further $300 discount of the
already low price
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