Brian Taylor

Experience

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  McDonald's

  Apr 2005 - Dec 2008

  Crew Member

  Customer services, store cleaning, food hygience, property maintenance, cleaning toilets, entertaining customers and children. Worked weekends and evenings during my high school years.

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  Crowe Horwath International

  Aug 2015 - Mar 2016

  Junior Auditor

  Worked as a junior auditor. Learnt how to reconcile client files, how to identify discrepancies in ledger accounts such as differences between wages payable and wages expenses, net profit and retained earnings, and discrepancies in AP and AR sub-ledgers versus the disclosed balances. Learnt how internal controls verse external controls, the importance of cash control and the common ways money is stolen from a business, substantive tests, tests of details, analytical reviews and clearly trivial concepts in auditing. Show less

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  State Revenue Office of Victoria

  Feb 2017 - Jul 2017

  Payroll Tax and Land Tax, Customer Service Assistant
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  H&R Block Australia

  Jul 2017 - Oct 2017

  Tax Preparer

  Prepared 99 income tax returns for various clients. Used the ATO's "Agent Portal" for the generation of client summaries and pre-filled income and expense items. Use of Reckon Elite and Excel to prepare returns and document schedules, including "cost base" schedules for capital gains purposes, and also excel "GST cashbook" for simple BAS preparation.

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  Hopley Bone Accountants Pty Ltd

  May 2018 - Feb 2019

  Assistant Bookkeeper and Accountant

  Assisted in the management of a client book of 50 active clients for bookkeeping, IAS and BAS compliance reporting. Various clients from retail, hospitality, manufacturing, medical services, and professional services. Client file conversions from various softwares onto the the firms Xero platform. Used Xero, MYOB, Reckon, QBO, and excel cashbooks for bookkeeping and compliance reporting.

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  NGU Real Estate Pty Ltd

  May 2019 - Nov 2019

  Financial Controller

  Managed the bookkeeping and reporting compliance for a group with 12 active entities (real estate and property management industry). Daily bank recs, AR, AP, payroll and franchisee reconciliations, inter-entity transfers, directors loan accounts, IAS, BAS, STP compliance and liason with external accountants for income tax reporting and Trust Audits. On-boarding and Off-boarding employees and contractors. Use of PropertyTree for sales/commission invoice preparation, trust accounting, and rental management functions. Show less

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  Brian Taylor & Associates Pty Ltd

  Jul 2019 - now

  Managing Director

  Managing Director at a fantastic bookkeeping and BAS agency practice operating across south-east Queensland. Helping small and medium sized businesses be compliant with the ATO, ASIC, OSR and the FWC, among others. We assist in everything from "general ledger resurrections" to software migrations to reporting, costings and budgets, for individual sole traders, companies, trusts, partnerships and any combination of these.

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  Australian Bookkeepers Network

  Aug 2022 - Dec 2023

  Content Writer

  The ABN is here to empower bookkeepers across Australia by providing resources such as Bookkeeper Knowledge Base, Getting Technical, helpline inquiries and a regular bulletin. We also provide reduced hours for SRE applications and a membership link to the Australia Bookkeepers Association.