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Why should each individual learn accounting?

Small business owners or NCEA accounting students, everyone can use a little help from a local Auckland-based accounting tutor. But what can you get help with

Working with someone to tutor you in accounting isn’t the same as hiring someone to do your books for you. Instead of outsourcing this task, a tutor will help you to understand the basic theory and develop a better understanding of how accounting works in a New Zealand financial context.

Improve your Accounting knowledge

For those of us that took accounting in high school, you probably have a vague idea of what a balance sheet looks like but turning that knowledge into practical real-world information you can use with your business is different.

What you need is someone who can help you understand how accounting terms and principles can be applied to your actual business.

You may think that you need to find a bookkeeper or an accountant to walk you through, but what you need is a skilled teacher, not a skilled accountant.

You don’t need to know what receipts you should keep; you need to know how to code those receipts in your accounting system – whether that is using a journal ledger book or an online system like Xero or MYOB.

Accounting tutors and your entrepreneur business

Hiring an Auckland based tutor to help you understand accounting is something that many business owners still don’t think about.

Thinking accounting tutors are only for “kids” sitting NCEA accounting, or uni students struggling with their accounting papers doesn’t fit with the Kiwi entrepreneur way of thinking. It also discounts the amazing skills you could be bringing to your life.

While an accountant understands the figures, the tax implications, and how to reduce your tax obligations, you understand your business. If you use your financial records as the “demo” data to work with while your accounting teacher is helping you learn the fundamentals, you will be in a better position to truly understand your business.

Understanding the NCEA Accounting Framework

Because the New Zealand education system is carefully set up to encourage students to succeed in a way that suits their abilities and desires for the future, working through the NCEA accounting framework can be a great grounding for any Kiwi business owner wanting to improve their accounting understanding.

Some of the topics covered include:

• understanding company financial statement preparation
• understanding accounting concepts for a New Zealand reporting entity
• understanding management accounting to inform decision-making
• understanding a job cost subsystem for an entity

All of these come with previous years' exams, marked exemplars, and free resources to help students develop a strong understanding of accounting principles.

For business owners, working with a Superprof accounting tutor means you’ve got someone that can provide easy-to-follow guidelines able to be modified to fit your business exactly. This is particularly useful for businesses that don’t fit the common mould – as is often the case for those of us working in Auckland.

For example, you could be a service-based business, working in multiple overseas currencies, but living in Auckland, so paying GST on utilities. But what if you are also working with staff overseas? Is there a way to pay them a wage or do you need to treat them like contractors?

Accounting tutors who understand Auckland University Accounting Degrees

This is another niche area for finding a great Auckland tutor in accounting. The University of Auckland is consistently ranked in the top 100 universities worldwide by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, so we have access to some of the best business courses available in the world.

So, working with a Superprof tutor who has gone through the MBA program in one of the world’s leading universities is not hard to find in Auckland (although Otago University is also highly ranked by FT).

Working with an accounting tutor to ensure you understand what you are doing with your record keeping doesn’t mean you don’t need to have an accountant complete your end-of-year records.

However, developing a better understanding of accounting will give you the skills and ability to carefully analyse those end-of-year records. This means that you can make better decisions about how to grow or change your business. It all starts with finding the tutor that’s right for you.