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Bookkeeping Institute of Australia Pty Ltd.

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"Thanks for providing this course by distance education. It is the only way I could have done it. I am grateful to those who put in the extra work to make that happen. Also thanks for maintaining such a good reputation. Training and qualifications are important but in most industries where you got your training can make a difference to your employability. Keep up the good work." Suzanne

Want to become an Accredited Bookkeeper and a BAS Agent?

Look no further — you've come to the right place!

Now you can study at home by

Distance Learning

This accredited course has been designed by Bookkeepers for NEW Bookkeepers and is ideal for employed bookkeepers or people wanting to start their own bookkeeping business's and become BAS Agents.


BI-575:

FNS30107 Certificate III in Financial Services

and the

FNS40207 Certificate IV in Financial Services (Bookkeeping)

The Total Solution Program to becoming a BAS Agent


Full Course Fee $4,495

Less up-front payment Discount of $500 = $3,995 classroom course fee

OR . . . less up-front payment Discount of $500 . . . 

And . . . less distance Learning discount of $500

= $3,495 distance course fee

reduced to $3,295

for a limited introductory period for upfront payment only

 Next Distance Intake: Anytime


Pay Monthly:

Choose this option if you would like to pay over 6 months

You pay only $1798 deposit and then $539.40 per month over the next 5 months for the classroom course**

or pay only $1598 deposit and then $479.40 per month over the next 5 months for the distance course**

**Option ONLY available for Visa or Mastercard credit card payments • Call for full details


This nationally accredited qualification has been developed for New Bookkeepers by Bookkeepers. The Bookkeeping Institute of Australia has written the first ever training course for this qualification and was the first training institute in Australia to deliver the qualification in October 2007. The course has already been has been proven in the field with over 1,000 students undertaking the BIA Certificate courses.

The Bookkeeping Institute of Australia is the only Registered Training Organisation in Australia providing a Total Solution Program for new bookkeepers to becoming BAS Agents under the new law - which became effective on 1 March 2010.

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.

Our Total Solution Program Certificate IV in Bookkeeping course is for people who wish to have a career as an employed bookkeeper or as professional contract bookkeeper, either working as a BAS Agent or contracted to a BAS Agent.

Exclusive to BIA Students:

This is the only Certificate IV in Bookkeeping course available in Australia which provides you with:

  • FREE one years — full with no restrictions — membership (worth $462) of the Australian Bookkeepers Network (ABN), Australia's leading bookkeeper association — which will enable you 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.

  • FREE one years student membership (worth $130) of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB), Australia's only recognised professional bookkeeper association. Full or Associate membership – which you will be eligible for once you have passed your Certificate IV in Bookkeeping – will also enable you to reduce the requirement for 1,400 hours of relevant experience to just 1,000 hours.

  • FREE membership (once you have graduated) of the Bookkeeping Institute of Australia which includes use the BIA Member logo on your business cards and stationary and access to the student members web site.

  • Once you have graduated, the exclusive right to use the post-nominal letters MBIA which stands for Member, Bookkeeping Institute of Australia after your name.

  • Once you have graduated, the right to call yourself a BIA Accredited Bookkeeper and to use the post-nominal letters AB after your name and to use the "BIA Accredited Bookkeeper" logo on your letterhead and business cards.

  • Once you have graduated and have an established contract bookkeeping business, your name and business details will be promoted on an exclusive page on the BIA Find A Bookkeeper website at www.bookkeepingaustralia.com.au.

                                 

In addition BIA will:

  • Help you with guidelines as to how to log the 1400 hours of relevant BAS and GST experience that you will need for re-registration.

  • Provide you with knowledgeable advice and support on the bookkeeping industry and the new laws

  • Provide you with a complete 4 day MYOB course (including payroll and GST/BAS) as part of your course fee

  • Provide you with Bookkeeping and GST textbooks which you will find essential in your own going employment or business

No other Certificate IV in Bookkeeping course provides all of these features and offers you the security of graduating from the leading Bookkeeping Institute in Australiabecome a BIA graduate and give yourself that extra edge when applying for a bookkeeping job or trying to land that new client.

BI-575: Total Solution Program: FNS30107 Certificate III in Financial Services
and the
FNS40207 BIA Certificate IV in Financial Services (Bookkeeping)

This is a 16 day course which includes comprehensive bookkeeping training using MYOB and the FNS30107 Certificate III in Financial Services and the FNS40207 BIA Certificate IV in Bookkeeping which is an Australia wide accredited qualification.

Competence is demonstrated by both multiple choice & short answer theory questions and the successful completion of an open book assessment designed to test the students ability to complete a set of monthly and quarterly accounts, including bank reconciliations.


Check out the classroom timetable tab for date and location of the next classroom intake


The Units

The Bookkeeping Institute of Australia have carefully chosen the units in this unique qualification to ensure that our graduates are competent to be employed in a bookkeeping and clerical accounting role.

Included in the delivery of this qualification is our all of the modules in our 4 day BI-640 MYOB Accounting Plus with Payroll, GST & BAS and our 2 day BI-560 Introduction to Bookkeeping and Accounting courses.


The Assessments

The assessments are designed to prove competency in the following nationally recgognised accredited units:

GROUP ONE – WORKPLACE BASICS

  • FNSICGEN304B - Apply health and safety practices in the workplace

  • FNSICGEN302B - Use technology in the workplace

GROUP TWO — PARTS ONE & TWO – ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM

  • FNSICGEN301B - Communicate in the workplace

  • FNSBKPG402A - Establish and maintain a Cash Accounting System

  • FNSBKPG403A - Establish and maintain an Accrual Accounting System

  • FNSACCT407B - Set up and operate a computerised Accounting System

  • FNSACCT405B - Prepare financial statements (for non-corporate entities)

  • FNSBKPG405A - Establish and maintain a payroll system

GROUP THREE — PART ONE – BOOKKEEPING POLICIES AND PRACTICES

  • FNSICIND401B - Apply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry

  • FNSBKPG401A - Develop and implement policies and practices relevant to bookkeeping activities

GROUP THREE — PART TWO – MAINTAIN ASSET AND INVENTORY RECORDS

  • FNSACCT406B - Maintain asset and inventory records

  • BSBFIA401A - Prepare financial reports

GROUP THREE — PART THREE – ACTIVITY STATEMENTS

  • FNSBKPG404A - Carry out Business Activity and Instalment Activity Statement tasks


To review a suggested 30 week timetable click here


The Groups

GROUP ONE – WORKPLACE BASICS covers 2 of the industry core subjects, FNSICGEN304B - Apply health and safety practices in the workplace and FNSICGEN302B - Use technology in the workplace which are mandatory subjects for all Financial Services qualifications at any level.

The 7 units in GROUP TWO – ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM are assessed as a single group cluster thus enabling us to teach all of the units in as a single subject. Consequently we do not have to duplicate any of our training or assessments thus dramatically reducing the teaching time in comparison with a TAFE college which teaches one unit at a time.

The 2 units in GROUP THREE — PART ONE – BOOKKEEPING POLICIES AND PRACTICES and the 2 units in GROUP THREE — PART TWO – MAINTAIN ASSET AND INVENTORY RECORDS & ACTIVITY STATEMENTS are also assessed as single group clusters.

In the past introductory accounting concepts and principles have been taught using a manual accounting system approach. The Bookkeeping Institute of Australia has adopted the view that it is more important for students to learn to operate a computer accounting system such as MYOB to perform these activities. Consequently in addition to 12 days of lectures, students will receive 4 days of extensive self-paced training in MYOB before starting on the assessments.


The Activities

The 16 day FNS40207 Certificate IV in Financial Services ¯(Bookkeeping) comprises of the following BIA lectures & courses:

Group One – WORKPLACE BASICS

Day 1: Lecture #1 . . . Welcome & Induction

Including a workshop on Apply health and safety practices in the workplace

Day 2: Assessments

Group Two – ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM

Days 3 & 4: Self paced training . . . BI-620 Ready to go with MYOB

On this course you will learn how to create a new company file in MYOB; deal with more complex invoicing matters; enter customer and supplier details into MYOB's card file; export MYOB data to Microsoft Excel 2003; make purchases from suppliers; make sales to customers; modify a chart of accounts to suit specific business needs; pay for purchases that have been made from suppliers; perform a bank reconciliation; perform end of month operations in MYOB; produce a variety of business related reports; record customer payments; set up a petty cash operation in MYOB; setup inventory for a new company file; track and monitor your credit cards; verify, backup, & restore MYOB data files & write cheques to make payments

Days 5 & 6: Lecture #2 . . . G2 Part 1: Introduction to Bookkeeping & Accounting

This is the foundation lecture for the course and covers the History of Bookkeeping; Accounting Concepts and Principles; Business Organisations; Accounting Entities; Business Types; The Trading Cycle; Accounting Periods; Balance Date; Source Documents; Groups of Accounts; The Accounting Equation; Net Profit; The Rules of Debits & Credits; Double Entry Bookkeeping; Accounting Systems; Chart of Accounts; Accrual and Cash Accounting; GST; The Profit & Loss Statement & The Balance Sheet and The Flow of Information 

Day 7-8: Lecture #3 . . . G2 Part 2: Setting-up and Maintaining a Bookkeeping System

Incorporating the Business Framework; Accounting Framework; Chart of Accounts review; Capital structure; Trading Stock; Accounts Receivable; Accounts Payable; The Cashbook; Inventory; Payroll & Completing the Accounting Cycle

Day 9: Self paced training . . . BI-612 MYOB Accounting Plus - Payroll

On this course you will learn how to setup MYOB Accounting Plus for payroll; add employee payroll details in MYOB; conduct a pay run; create and track employee entitlements; pay employees electronically; display payroll information and generate reports; finalise the end of a pay year

Days 10: Self paced training . . . BI-614 MYOB Accounting for GST/BAS

On this course you will learn how to use the MYOB Banking command centre; reconcile bank accounts; understand file management and error correction; understand Cash and Accrual accounting methods;  use advanced sales and purchases features & understand GST & BAS in depth

Group Three - BOOKKEEPING POLICIES AND PRACTICES

Days 11 & 12: Lecture & Workshop #4 . . . G3 Part 1: Bookkeeping Policies and Practices

Incorporating The Bookkeeping Industry; Section 251L of the Income Tax Assessment Act; The Impact of Legislation on the Bookkeeping Industry; Australia's Financial Regulatory Framework; Professional Associations & Ethics & Professional Codes of Conduct

Days 13 & 14: Lecture & Workshop #5 . . . G3 Part 2: End-of-Period Financial Reports

Incorporating Setting up an asset register; Complying with organisational asset acquisition procedures; Reconciling asset register and inventory records to the general ledger; Recording inventory flows; Recognising new assets and asset categories; Preparing schedules and ad hoc reports; Recording the disposal of fixed assets; Recording general journal entries for balance day adjustments; Preparing final general ledger accounts & end-of-period financial reports

Days 15 & 16: Lecture & Workshop #6 . . . G3 Part 3: Activity Statements 

Incorporating Researching and documenting Statutory, legislative and regulatory requirements relating to Activity Statements; Identifying Lodgment schedule requirements; Recognising GST implications and coding transactions; Reporting on payroll and other amounts withheld, pay as you go (PAYG) installments and taxes & Completing, reconciling and lodging the Activity Statement

Our two day Introduction to Bookkeeping and Accounting course covers the principles and theory of accounting, including the Accounting Equation, Double Entry Bookkeeping, the Chart of Accounts, Assets, Liabilities, Owners Equity, Revenue and Expenses. There will be a series of lectures together with class exercises to reinforce the subjects covered. We have been running this unique course for over 5 years now and have received considerable praise from our students.

The accounting text book provided (all text books are included in the cost of the course) is specifically written for bookkeepers.

Our 4 day MYOB Accounting Plus, Payroll, GST & BAS course is a comprehensive MYOB course. It covers most of the aspects of MYOB Accounting Plus, including Payroll, GST & BAS, and combines the efforts of two different authors thereby ensuring students are exposed to a wide range of MYOB functions.

The two day Setting-up and Maintaining a Bookkeeping System and the two day Working in the Bookkeeping Industry & End-of-period Financial Reports courses bring together the theory and practice of bookkeeping in today's computer based world and prepares the student for the assessment tests - which are in themselves part of the learning experience.

The two day Bookkeeping Policies and Practices course brings together the application of principles of professional practice in the financial services industry (such as tax agents and professional accountants) with the development and implement of policies and practices relevant to bookkeeping activities.

The course finishes with the two day  Maintain Asset and Inventory records & Activity Statements and covers Preparation of financial reports and completing Business Activity (BAS) and Instalment Activity (IAS) Statement tasks using a scenario case study and Policy & Procedures Manual.

For the practical assessment tests we have created a scenario case study and have written a 38 page Policy & Procedures Manual which the student will be required to refer to for specific instructions on how that particular business operates. The purpose of this scenario and manual is, as far as possible, to simulate an actual workplace experience in the classroom.

Students will be required to first set up a company file, chart of accounts, opening balances, customers, suppliers, inventory items, tax codes and payroll records for this entity in a computerised accounting system and then to enter an entire month’s transactions comprising of creditors invoices and payments of suppliers, sales invoices, adjustment notes and banking, petty cash, credit card and direct debit transactions, reconciliations of bank accounts and subsidiary ledgers and payroll transactions. End of period reporting, bad debt and end of year processes will complete the assessment.

All of the processing of accounting transactions will be conducted using MYOB. Accounting principles and concepts including accounting entities, chart of accounts, the accounting equation & double entry bookkeeping will be covered and assessed. We will not be teaching manual accounting procedures as we believe that the introduction of GST and the requirement to report transactions on the Business Activity Statement (BAS) on a cash basis, as well as an accrual basis, have rendered manual accounting almost redundant and it is far more important that students have an extensive knowledge of computerised accounting systems, such as MYOB and QuickBooks.

As a consequence our students will be competent in MYOB as well as in basic bookkeeping and accounting principles.


Course Materials

The following learning materials are included in the course fee:

  • Textbooks specific to:

    • The Financial Services Industry

    • The Bookkeeping Industry

  • Study Guides:

    1. Workplace Basics Study Guide and PowerPoint slides

    2. Introduction to Bookkeeping & Accounting Study Guide, PowerPoint slides and Exercise Book

    3. Setting-up and Maintaining a Bookkeeping System Study Guide and PowerPoint slides

    4. Working in the Bookkeeping Industry Study Guide and PowerPoint slides

    5. Bookkeeping Policies and Practices Study Guide and PowerPoint slides

    6. End-of-Period Financial Reports & Activity Statements Study Guide and PowerPoint slides

  • MYOB Student Edition CD and

    • CD of self-paced Exercises

    • Introduction to Computers in the Workplace Manual

    • Ready To Go with MYOB course Manual

    • MYOB Payroll Manual

    • MYOB Intermediate GST & BAS Manual

  • USB Flash Drive for use in completing your assessments (this remains the property of BIA and must be returned when all assignments are complete)


South Brisbane Campus

You can take all of our Bookkeeping courses at our South Brisbane campus which is at 1407 Logan Road in Mt. Gravatt Central, ideally situated for both Brisbane CBD and Gold Coast students. There is plenty of free parking in the streets surrounding us.

The course is lead by our Principal, Dennis Turner, who has successfully operated a contract bookkeeping business since the introduction of GST into Australia in 2000. including a year with a major Bookkeeping Franchise with over 50 franchisees.

Dennis has almost 20 years experience with GST and prior to coming to Australia Dennis held the position of Financial Controller for 5 years after owning his own computer business for 10 years. He has held a variety of accounting and IT management roles over the last 30+ years and is well qualified to run this course.

Australia wide Campuses

Our accredited BI-575 FNS40207 Certificate IV in Financial Services (Bookkeeping) and BI-570 FNS30107 Certificate III in Financial Services – Bookkeeping courses can also be taken at any one of 6 BIA campuses across Australia in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland.

Each campus may run the course on different days dates and days of the week. Some may even run evening classes and others may be able to custom a course just to suit you. To find your local campus please click on the BIA Partner menu on the left of this page.

After completion of the course you still have 10 months (which can be extended to 18 months on request) in which to submit your assessments for marking.

The Bookkeeping Institute of Australia is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) registered under the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF). Our national provider code is 32190.

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