Blog
News & Updates
Benkorp’s annual updated Audit Preparation Checklist…
Each year we update our Audit Preparation Checklist. This is a list of tasks and reconciliations to be completed and documents to be collected and made available for the auditors. Following these steps will streamline your year end audit process. Using Xero and this...
Data security – Free online course for Xero users – Very practical!! Everyone should study this.
Xero has launched a new online course about why security is such an important part of keeping our organisation going – and what we can do about it. We strongly encourage you to watch and learn from this course – all the way to the end. The section on Phishing...
Difficult to find treasurers for your church… what you can do about it!
The job of the treasurer is very demanding. Bills to pay, records to keep, income and expenses to record in an accounting system, reports to produce, budgets to create and review, payroll to process, meetings to attend and many more. This goes on every week of every...
Lodge your BAS directly from Xero!!
Yayy!! You can now lodge your organisation BAS directly to ATO from your Xero organisation account!! This has been a great long awaited feature. No ATO Portal access. No more paper. No more Auskeys! There are a few steps to set up and then you can lodge your BAS...
Meet Winston
Winston Reyes is a man of many talents, wide professional experience and happy in his family and with his faith. Winston has been with Benkorp for over 2 years now and we are pleased to celebrate this time with him. He serves clients with their bookkeeping and...
Warning! – Xero Customers targeted with phishing or malicious emails
Many people have been receiving phishing and/or malicious emails which say they are from Xero or use the Xero logo. Beware! Delete them! Please also report to Xero – [email protected] Make sure you check the sender’s email address. Xero says “It pays to...
How to be actively interested in your church’s finances
Not just Committees, Treasurers and Finance Departments of churches and ministries This is a formidable combination as a headline for any church or ministry. It appears to be more like the heading of the daily business news – TV, email, social media or newspaper. It...
Say hello to Crizel
Crizel joined the Benkorp team in 2016 as an accounting specialist and bookkeeper. As an accounting graduate Crizel had gained some very practical experience before joining our team and was looking to increase her systems experience and exposure to practical...
How to create a Create a Missions Donations Payable report in Xero
The new Accounts Transactions report provides some amazing flexibility. We have customised some great reports that some churches love using this new Accounts Transactions report. One of these is what we call the Missions Donations Payable report. The purpose of this...