PAYE EMP501 Submissions
PAYE EMP501 submission due for employers registered for PAYE/UIF/SDL. 
Due date: 3 June 2011
We will gladly assist you with submissions. Please make an appointment A.S.A.P. to discuss this.

Upcoming Courses
Pastel Partner Intermediate
Date: 24 – 27 May 2011
Pastel Payroll
Date: 31May,1,2,14,15 June 2011
Pastel Partner Processing
Date: 7 – 9 June 2011

May Specials
For the month of May we are running the following great specials.

Save 20% when upgrading your
Pastel Accounting V8 or V9 software.

Should you require anymore information on any of the information contained in the above, please email, info@accit.co.za

· Payroll PAYE – Bi-Annual submissions : Your first/interim tax certificate submission and 6 month tax reconciliation is due to SARS during September\October 2010. You will need to fully reconcile and submit your March 2010 to August 2010 Payroll to SARS by the deadline date. See the software specials below for Pastel Payroll. Now is the time to purchase a Payroll package that can do it all for you.

· Income Tax Act – Attend our Pastel Payroll tax course on 17 August and ensure that your income tax knowledge is up to date. Learn how to do accurate tax calculations.

· VAT seminar – Our VAT seminar on 16 July was well supported. If you missed out, it will be held again 24 November so please put your name down early to avoid disappointment.

· Bank Manager Seminar – this is my personal favourite of all the Pastel Add-on modules simply because it is such a huge time saver. Come for one mornings training and see how you can save time and make your cash book processing more accurate. 15 September 9:00 to 12:00. Usual price R799, book before 31 August and receive 20% off = R639.20

Referral lucky draw

do you know of someone who is interested in Pastel Accounting / Pastel Payroll/ Bookkeeping training or software? If you send us the name and number/ email address of your contact who is interested, we will put your name into the draw. You can stand to win a calculator, pen and laptop bag at the end of August.

August is also a month for specials on software. Email info@accit.co.za or phone 035 340 1903 for a quote. The following specials are available this month.

Pastel Accounting is running until the end of August.

Upgrade specials we are currently offering our customers:

* V10(2009) – V11(2010) will receive 10% discount

* V9(2007) – V11(2010) will receive 20% discount

* V8(2005) – V11(2010) will receive 30% discount

* Versions older than V8(2005) – V11(2010) will receive 50% discount.

This offer is valid on like to like product upgrades.

All customers upgrading from Version 6 or older will receive Pastel Bank Manager at no cost for one year.

Customers upgrading from V7(2004), V8(2005), V9(2007) or V10(2009) to Pastel Accounting V11(2010) will receive 10% off  Bank Manager.

Pastel Payroll specials running until end of August

(Special 1: R 1 399) (Normally R 1 828)

Includes:

* 10 Employees Package

* 100 Payslips

(Special 2: R 2 999) (Normally R 3 728)

Includes:

* 25 Employees Package

* 100 Payslips

(Special 3: R 4 799) (Normally R 6 128)

Includes:

* 50 Employees Package

* 100 Payslips

We also learnt in the budget speech that 900 000 jobs were lost in SA last year. What does this mean for you and me? Well if you are a job seeker you need to ensure that you have as many skills as possible on your CV to try and achieve the edge of all those other job seekers applying for the same job. It would be a good time to do a Pastel Accounting or Pastel Payroll course and to do your assessment so that you have the certificate to prove that you are competent.

AccIT is offering you a CV service. After passing your assessment you can lodge your CV with us and we will do our best to ensure that businesses looking for employees who are competent in Pastel will receive your CV.

If you already have a job you need to stay on your toes and ensure that you make yourself
indispensible. Why not attend training to find out how to do things more efficiently?

Business owners have you set your budget for the year?  Do you know how to set your budget on Pastel? (Learn how in the Pastel Advanced course on 23-25 March).

Pastel is also showing a bit of love this February. There is a special on all new Pastel Accounting Software and Add-on Modules " 20% off (except Pastel Start-Up which is 15% off).

Pastel Start-Up was R999 now R799, save R200

Pastel Xpress, Single User was R2 499, now R1999- save R500

Pastel Partner was R7 500, now R6000 " save R1 500

R100 off on Pastel Accounting training courses

All specials end on Friday 26 February.

We would love to hear from you

Leonie

Have a look at these fun quizzes to help you assess your need for Pastel payroll and Pastel partner training.

Happy New Year to you all, we hope that 2010 will be a wonderful and prosperous year for you!

To start off the year on a good note, Pastel has 25% off on all add-on modules, Cover and certain other software products – please contact us if you would like a quotation on any products.

Training: we are running a R200 off special on next week's Pastel Xpress course 26 – 29 January 2010,mornings only 8:30-12:30. 

The date for the Year-end half-day workshop is Thursday 4 February and the cost is R750.  Please book early to avoid disappointment as seats are limited.  This workshop is essential for tips on how to run your year-end without hassles and how to present your accountant with all the right info to make compilation of your Annual Financials quick and painless.

AccIT placements:  I constantly have inquiries from people wishing to employ Pastel graduates so we are adding the service of job placement scheme.  Employers may register with us for token fee of R300 and job seekers can register their CVs for R300 -  we can also offer advice on how to improve your CV.  We also do job contracts for R200 per employee.  And if you as an employer would like to ensure that you are on the right side of the labour laws then our Pastel Payroll Administration course (1 day) is a must.

Kind regards

Leonie and Sonia

Dear Valued Clients

Just to celebrate this wonderful time of year, we have some really great specials for you :

Spring Specials!

10% off training courses booked and paid for before 30 September (applies to single courses booked, not package deals)

20% off on New Packages

Pastel Partner was R7 500 now R6 000

Pastel Xpress Start-up was R999, now R799

Pastel Xpress was R2 499, now R1 749

30% off on Bank Manager (HUGE time saver: download your bank statements directly into your cash book)

30% off on Cash Manager (Manage your debtors, improve your cash flow!!)

Pastel Payroll – between R100 and R300 off dependent on the package – email us for a quote

Come and see us at the Zululand Expo, 24 -26 September in Richards Bay.  Lots of prizes to be won!

  Learn to build your own website:

We are proud to announce that we have a guest trainer coming on 27 October;  Sean Grant will be giving a special one day course of Joomla! Training.   To find out more about Joomla! see their fantastic website www.learnjoomla.co.za  Seats are limited so please book early to secure your place.  Contact us for more info.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Kind regards

Leonie and the team

I attended our level 3 Pastel Accounting Training a few weeks ago. This is a course encompassing all the add-on modules: Manufacturing, Multi-Currency, Receipting, Time and Billing, Point-of-Sale, Multi Stores, Serial Number Tracking, GL Manager, Fixed Assets, Bank Manager and Cash Manager. We offer support, sales and training on all of these modules.

There are many courses planned for the rest of the term and the beginning of next term so please see our website.

Assessment dates for those who would like to write assessments are:12 June, 31 July, 14 or 28 August. Bookings must be made 5 working days before the assessment.

Good news for some: Pastel has looked at the overall economic situation and decided to offer clients a price reduction on the following products:

Pastel Xpress Start-up, Single User, Single Company is Now R999 (was R1699).

Pastel Xpress Single User, Multi-Company is now R2499 (was R2999).

Until next time….

Kind regards

Leonie Tanser

Happy New Year to all our clients and friends! May 2009 be your best year ever!

To start the new year, we have a new logo (see above).

It is already well into January and year-end is looming just seven weeks away. If you are unsure of the year-end processes, we will be running half-day seminar specifically on year-end. The Year-end Seminars will include a file with dividers and pointers on what information you need to give you accountant at year-end to speed up the compilation of your Annual Financials.

"There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and the necessary skill." Nelson Mandela.

I love that quotation by our former president, who is a great advocate of education. I would like to encourage all those who would like to learn a new skill or sharpen your old ones in 2009 to "go for it!" On that note the courses for the year are on the website.

*The manual Bookkeeping course has been developed by Pastel and should help you to understand the logic of the Accounting Cycle.

Kind regards

Leonie

It is already November and the year is almost finished. On the training side we have the last courses for the year as follows:

7 November – Pastel Payroll Level 1

11-15 November – 4 day Pastel Partner Processing

17 November – Pastel Payroll Level 2

18 & 19 November – Pastel Xpress

News

I recently attended the Pastel Accounting Approved Training Centres Roadshow, the training manager warned us that next year the price of manuals would need to increase as the printers have increased the price 4 times this year. So be prepared for an increase in training investment from January.

I also attended a demonstration of Pastel's brand new Cash Manager add-on module. This programme takes all your debtor information from your Pastel package and allows you to manage your debtors. No more cryptic notes scribbled on an Age Analysis print out. Cash Manager has fields to input the date on which you called the debtor, their Promise-to-pay date and drop down menus of excuses or space to type in any original ones. The reports you can run are wonderful including Promise-to-Pays due that day, or overdue. You can even email a record of all your correspondence to the debtor – effectively showing him that he is not pulling the wool over your eyes, this is also a good record for a legal case, should it come to that. You can also print out realistic Cash flow predictions based on actual promises to pay.

The developer himself showed us how the product works. He has been selling it for a few years as a pilot study and has interesting case studies: in one instance the 4 debtors clerks were battling to keep up with the debtors, but with Cash Manager they now use 3 debtors clerks who can cope easily and the 4^th employee has moved over to sales. The cost of the programme is R3850 and the Annual licence fee is R1500 (compare that with a debtor's clerk's annual salary).

All software orders are to please be finalised by 17 November.

Get Automated Backup

This week I have heard of 2 cases of computers being stolen. Please ensure that you are backing up and remember the safest way to back-up is with IronTree – Secure, automated, web-based back-up of all you files (not limited to Pastel files). Click this link to backup your data now http://www.irontree.co.za

2008 has been an exciting year for me and one that I have thoroughly enjoyed. I will be closing on Friday 21 November, so I would like to take this opportunity of wishing all my customers a very blessed Christmas. I hope that you will manage some time off with family and friends.

Kind regards

Leonie Tanser