Yes, we only cover sole trader accounting in this program.

If your business is a partnership, company or trust, stay tuned for the non-sole trader version.

There there, little one. Mama's got you.

Sole trader is a legal structure for a business. If you're self-employed/a micro-business owner, and you didn't set up a legal partnership, company or trust to operate your business, then you're a sole trader.

Why it matters is, how you do your accounting, and how you lodge your tax returns, is different based on whether your business is a sole trader, partnership, company or trust.

You sure will! The Get Ready For That Accounting Stuff mini-course was the Why, What, Where, When and Who of accounting. This program is all about the How.

No. For information about the tax system, tax returns, and how to prepare for tax time, you'll want to check out That Tax Stuff.

One thing we'd like to point out here, that many sole traders don't realise is, accounting is not filling out your tax return!

Accounting is for you, the business owner, to understand your business from a financial perspective, and use that understanding to make better business decisions. A tax return is just a form you fill out for the grubby-ment to let them know how much of your hard-earned money they can get their grubby mitts on this year.

However, to be able to lodge your tax returns, you first have to do your accounting. Which is what this program is for.

Technically, no. But we strongly recommend completing at least Lesson 2 and Lesson 3 of the mini-course first, so you know the basics and have your Chart of Accounts and Profit & Loss report mock-up created, and are ready to hit the ground running in this program.

While Anna is definitely not your typical accountant, she is a legit one.

She has an accounting degree, began her accounting career as a small business bookkeeper and MYOB super-user, then went on to become systems accountant and accounting trouble-shooter for large corporations, and more recently had a brief stint as a Business Analyst.

She’s now returning to her roots as a small business bookkeeper, has recently completed a Certificate in Bookkeeping refresh her knowledge about all things bookkeeping, and is updating her Mad Skillz in small business accounting software.

No—you won't need it. You'll get the smart spreadsheet template in the first class, and by the end of the four weeks you should have done enough of your own bookkeeping to be able to continue on your own.

However, you will have access to the class recordings for three months after the program ends. And you're welcome to join us in the monthly Do Your Accounting! sessions to ask questions if you get stuck on anything after the program ends.

Class recordings will be made available after each class, and you'll have access to them for three months after the program ends.

No. Anna will explain the basics of Excel before we begin. If it's still not basic enough, just say so. Anna won't be judging you as deficient, she'll be judging her teaching as deficient, because she specifically said it's for beginners, and when you're teaching beginners, ya gotta begin at the beginning!

Just let her know in the pre-course survey that you’ve never used a spreadsheet before.

Wash your mouth out, child! Google Sheets is a steaming pile of garbage and not fit to be anywhere near The Accountress of Hogwarts!

Unfortunately, no. Google Sheets just isn't smart enough to do all the things this spreadsheet needs to do. Plus the shortcut keys are different, and not as good.

But don't worry. Anna knows where you can get you Excel for free, and a desktop version of Microsoft Office for super-cheap.

You have a Mac? Oh, that's cute. No.

But don't worry. Excel works on Mac. Plus Anna knows where you can get you Excel for free. As for the super-cheap version of Microsoft Office, it's probably three times as expensive for Mac, so don't hold your breath.

Nope. Anna doesn’t let kids drive Porsches. If you buy the spreadsheet without doing the training, you’re going to make a big-ass mess of things, and guess who’s spreadsheet is going to get a bad reputation?

If you mean you suck at Math, yes you will. Accounting isn't Maths, and the spreadsheet does the heavy lifting for you to produce your Profit & Loss report.

By the way, if you have the belief that you can't do accounting because you're not good with numbers, that's a piece of 'head trash' that Lesson 1 of the Get Ready for That Accounting Stuff mini-course will help you get rid of, so that even you can become an Accounting Hero!

P.S. We'll let you in on a little secret: Anna's crap with numbers too—and she's not the only accountant out there who is. So if people can be crap with numbers and make an entire career out of accounting, you can do this.