P&C bookkeepers. Save time, reduce risk, maximise impact.

Because treasurers are volunteers with day jobs, and the obligations aren't volunteer-sized: compliant records, payroll for canteen or OSHC staff, BAS where registered, and an annual audit. A professional bookkeeper supports the treasurer instead of replacing them - and survives committee changeovers.

Consistently, yes. Auditors charge for time, and clean, reconciled, well-documented books cut audit time dramatically. Several P&Cs have found the bookkeeping partly pays for itself here.

Nothing bad - which is the point. The books, processes and history stay with us, so a new treasurer inherits a working system instead of a mystery shoebox.

Yes - employees paid correctly under the right award, with super on payday and STP filed each run.

We set P&Cs up with modern tools: secure debit card management, receipt capture and cloud bookkeeping, so separation of duties is real and nothing depends on one person's shoebox.

It depends on turnover, and not-for-profit bodies register at a higher threshold than ordinary businesses do. The part that catches committees out is what counts towards it: tuckshop takings, uniform shop sales, fundraising income and most other trading activity add up together, not one activity at a time. Some P&Cs are registered and did not need to be. A few are trading well past the threshold and have never checked. We work out which one you are, and where the P&C is registered we prepare and lodge the BAS.

Almost certainly, yes, and this is the obligation committees are least likely to have heard about. A not-for-profit that self-assesses as income tax exempt rather than holding charity registration is now expected to lodge an annual self-review return with the ATO confirming it still qualifies. If your P&C is instead registered with the ACNC, the annual information statement covers the ground instead. Either way it is a yearly job with a due date, and it is on the treasurer unless someone else is doing it.

Against the grant, from the first dollar. The funding goes to its own income line and every payment made from it carries a matching code, so at any point the committee can see how much is left and what it has gone on. When the acquittal is due the report already exists rather than having to be reconstructed from bank statements. Where a grant arrives before the work happens or runs across a financial year, the unspent portion is carried rather than counted as this year's surplus, so the P&C does not appear to be sitting on money it has already committed.

Yes, and without opening another bank account for it. Tracking categories in the accounting file give the swimming club, the music support group or the tuckshop their own income, costs and running balance while the money stays in one account the treasurer can actually reconcile. Each sub-committee gets its number at the meeting, and the P&C keeps one bank reconciliation instead of five.