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Want to become an Accredited Bookkeeper and a BAS Agent?

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

This accredited course has been designed by Bookkeepers for Bookkeepers.

And you can take this course by distance which means you can study in your own home. It's your choice.

FNS40207 Certificate IV in Financial Services (Bookkeeping) and the BI-580 Start Your Own Bookkeeping Business Program
are now available by . . .

Distance Learning

FNS40207 Certificate IV in Financial Services (Bookkeeping) full Course Fee of $4,495 less special $1,000 discount for Distance Learning ONLY and up-front payment reduces the distance price to only . . .

$3,495

or pay only $799 per month over 5 months*

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

BI-580 Start Your Own Bookkeeping Business Program full Course Fee of $5,495 less special $1,000 discount for Distance Learning ONLY and up-front payment reduces the distance price to only . . .

$4,495

or pay only $999 per month over 5 months*

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

Please note that January bookings will ship after 26th January 2009 on a "first ordered", "first shipped" basis

This nationally accredited qualification has been developed for Bookkeepers by Bookkeepers. The Bookkeeping Institute of Australia (BIA) 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. It has already been has been proven in the field with over 180 students undertaking the BIA Certificate courses.

This 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

This is the only Cert IV Bookkeeping course available in Australia which awards you, the graduate, with:

The exclusive right to use the post-nominal letters MBIA - which stands for Member, Bookkeeping Institute of Australia - after your name
The right to call yourself an 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
Free membership 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
Your name and business details will be promoted on an exclusive page of the BIA web site

In addition BIA will:

Immediately (only if you so wish), arrange for you to have the option of working under the direction of a Register Tax Agent so that you can become legal to lodge BAS returns as a BAS Service Provider under the current 251L law right away — thereby enabling you to start earning a living right away
Help you with guidelines as to how to become legal under the new BAS Agents law which requires you to have 1400 hours of relevant BAS and GST experience
Provide you with knowledgeable advice and support on the bookkeeping industry and the new laws
Arrange for you to receive free student membership of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB) — the only professional Not-for-Profit bookkeeping association in Australia
Provide you with a complete 5 day MYOB course 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

Exclusive to the BIA Start Your Own Bookkeeping Business Program and included in the extra course fee of $1,000 is:

12 months membership of the Australian Bookkeepers Network (ABN), paid for by BIA, which means that you immediately have the option of working under the direction of a Registered Tax Agent so that you can legally accept a fee for lodging BAS returns under the current law (section 251L of the Income Tax Assessment Act of 1936) right away — thereby enabling you to start earning a living right away. In addition to being able to provide you with an avenue for preparing BASs, ABN also provides a wide range of support, tools and resources to help bookkeepers build bigger and better businesses - this benefit is worth $420
Our 3 day BI-730 QuickBooks in Daily Use with Payroll self-paced course - this benefit is worth $899
Two of the most useful marketing books you will ever read by self-made multimillionaire and business development expert, Brad Sugars - this benefit is worth $60
A one day workshop in which you will be helped to set up your own bookkeeping business - this benefit is worth $395
or if you are taking the course by distance we will provide you with the lecture material and unlimited free e-mail help and remote support in setting up Your Own Bookkeeping Business

These benefits total $1,774 — and you get them for just $1,000!

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

BI-575 FNS40207 BIA Certificate IV in Financial Services (Bookkeeping)

This course is for people who wish to have a career as a professional contract bookkeeper, either working under the direction of a Tax Agent/Public Accountant, for a Bookkeeping Business or Franchise or as a BAS Agent.

This is a 16 day course which includes comprehensive bookkeeping training using MYOB and the FNS40207 BIA Certificate IV in Financial Services (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.

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 5 day BI-650 MYOB Accounting Plus and our BI-560 Introduction to Bookkeeping and Accounting courses.

We send you the following by door-to-door courier:

For bookkeeping courses we send you a PowerPoint presentation of up to 440 slides (depending on the course) that guides you through all of the lectures and prompts you when to complete a self-paced MYOB course or to complete your assessments.
A USB Flash Drive which contains ALL of your assessments and supporting material, the PowerPoint presentation, your student handbook and a selection of really useful guides on GST and other tax relates matters.
For the Cert IV Bookkeeping we include six printed and bound study guides, five MYOB self-paced manuals, three textbooks and any other important handbooks.

You work through the material at your own pace and submit your assessments as and when you are ready. This allows you to progress through the course at a pace that suits your needs.

You have 12 months (which will be extended to 18 months on request) in which to submit your assessments for marking. If you need help or have any questions we are just an email away. We will normally get back to you within 24 hours with either an email response with reference information or we will telephone you to chat about the issue.