Small Business Tips & Tricks to Work Smarter, Faster, and More Accurately
The Fun Accountant shares quick, precise accounting tips, tax facts, and tools to streamline your business admin.
I’m Louis Munro CA(SA), and yes — “Fun” is in the name because I make business and tax content practical and enjoyable.
With over 20 years of experience, I’ve helped hundreds of small businesses turn chaos into clarity using cloud accounting and proven systems.
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EMP501 Submission in EasyFile V7 – No Payroll Software Needed Mid-Year Guide for Small Businesses
Read more: EMP501 Submission in EasyFile V7 – No Payroll Software Needed Mid-Year Guide for Small BusinessesStill managing payroll with a spreadsheet? Then you know as a small business, the struggle of submitting your EMP501 without payroll…
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How to Pay Employees in a Small Business Using Sage Payroll and Netcash
Read more: How to Pay Employees in a Small Business Using Sage Payroll and NetcashCongratulations you are a small business owner, you’ve just hired your first employees, and now it’s time to pay them. If…
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Pay Payroll Taxes Online
Read more: Pay Payroll Taxes OnlineIn this article, I’m going to walk you through how to submit and pay payroll taxes online using Sage Business Cloud…
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How to add employees in Sage Payroll
Read more: How to add employees in Sage PayrollOnboarding employees can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. In this blog, we focus on how to add employees…
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Understand Retirement Funds in Payroll
Read more: Understand Retirement Funds in PayrollLet’s understand how to correctly set up retirement funds, known as “benefit funds”, in Sage Business Cloud Payroll. It is a…
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How to run payroll & process payroll taxes
Read more: How to run payroll & process payroll taxesIn this guide we cover the intricacies of how to run payroll and process payroll taxes using Sage Business Cloud Payroll.…
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Easy Payroll steps with Sage’s 6-Step Guide
Read more: Easy Payroll steps with Sage’s 6-Step GuideSage Business Cloud Payroll has a hidden gem that many users might not be aware of: the 6-step guide. This guide…
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Start your payroll by adding a new Company in Sage Business Cloud Payroll
Read more: Start your payroll by adding a new Company in Sage Business Cloud PayrollWe’re going straight to the essentials—adding a new company and setting up company details to start your payroll with Sage Business…
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What is a Payroll Cycle and why is it important in Sage Business Cloud Payroll?
Read more: What is a Payroll Cycle and why is it important in Sage Business Cloud Payroll?Understanding what a payroll cycle is and why it is important in Sage Business Cloud Accounting is crucial, as it represents…
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Sage Business Cloud Payroll: Review Pricing and Features
Read more: Sage Business Cloud Payroll: Review Pricing and FeaturesThis is a review of Sage Business Cloud Payroll, its pricing breakdown, main features, and what you can expect from this…
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Marking Customer Invoices Paid from Split Transactions in Sage
Read more: Marking Customer Invoices Paid from Split Transactions in SageA viewer of The Fun Accountant YouTube channel posed an important question that resonates with many small business owners: ‘Is there…
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How to use the Active customer setting
Read more: How to use the Active customer settingWe explore how to use the simple “Active” customer setting in Sage Business Cloud Accounting to transform how you manage your customers.…
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VAT Guide for beginners on Sage in 10 Easy Steps
Read more: VAT Guide for beginners on Sage in 10 Easy StepsEmbarking on your VAT journey with Sage is now more straightforward than ever. My ‘VAT Guide for beginners on Sage in…
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The Complete 9-Step Mid-Year EMP501 Guide with Sage Payroll & Easyfile
Read more: The Complete 9-Step Mid-Year EMP501 Guide with Sage Payroll & EasyfileThe Fun Accountant is back with another comprehensive guide, this time aimed at revealing how easy and quick it is to…
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How to Master Trial Balance Imports into Sage Accounting: A Comprehensive Guide.
Read more: How to Master Trial Balance Imports into Sage Accounting: A Comprehensive Guide.Hello, dear readers! Welcome to this step-by-step tutorial, designed to guide you seamlessly through the importation of a trial balance into…
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Tax Identification Number Verification for Employers
Read more: Tax Identification Number Verification for EmployersIn this supplementary blog post, to our video we delve deeper into the process of performing Tax Identification Number (TIN) verification…
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How to Import a Customer List into Sage Accounting from Pastel
Read more: How to Import a Customer List into Sage Accounting from PastelThis article deals with the topic of how to import a customer list into Sage Accounting. Sage Cloud Accounting is rapidly…
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Automate your supplier process with the Dext and Sage Accounting systems.
Read more: Automate your supplier process with the Dext and Sage Accounting systems.It is a mouthful to describe in short what this blog is all about. Let’s try: You are going to learn…
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Dext: The best Bank Statement conversion tool for importing bank statements to accounting software.
Read more: Dext: The best Bank Statement conversion tool for importing bank statements to accounting software.Dext has recently released the best bank statement conversion tool for importing bank statements into accounting systems to circumvent the tedious…
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Bank reconciliations for advanced users on Sage Accounting and solving a common bank reconciliation error.
Read more: Bank reconciliations for advanced users on Sage Accounting and solving a common bank reconciliation error.In the last blog of The Fun Accountant’s bank reconciliation series, I am going to recap the previous four previous articles/videos…
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Bank processing and reconciliations in Sage Accounting
Read more: Bank processing and reconciliations in Sage AccountingIn this blog, I am going to cover how to process a bank account and then finish the function with a…
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Quick and easy bank reconciliation on Sage Accounting
Read more: Quick and easy bank reconciliation on Sage AccountingLet’s see folks, if it is possible to perform a quick and easy full digital bank reconciliation on Sage Accounting. You…
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How to do bank reconciliations on Sage – Part 2
Read more: How to do bank reconciliations on Sage – Part 2To know what to do, and to understand how bank reconciliations work, we have to start at the beginning and for…
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Sage bank reconciliations for beginners
Read more: Sage bank reconciliations for beginnersAre you a business owner? Want to learn more about accounting? or new on Sage Accounting? Well then this post is…
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How to customise the Sage Workspace
Read more: How to customise the Sage WorkspaceTo prepare you for doing bank reconciliations in Sage Accounting, I am going to show you how to customise the Sage…
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Process bank payments in Sage Accounting
Read more: Process bank payments in Sage AccountingProcessing bank payments means to allocate and classify bank payments after the bank statements have been imported to Sage Accounting. Bank…
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How to process Customer Bank Receipts in Sage Accounting
Read more: How to process Customer Bank Receipts in Sage AccountingIn this post I am going to show you how to allocate and record customers’ money received in your business’ bank…
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Sage Accounting Workspace the break-through guide to business tasks
Read more: Sage Accounting Workspace the break-through guide to business tasksI am going to introduce you to the Sage Accounting Workspace which is a break-through guide for doing business tasks. The…
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How to Import multiple PDF Bank Transactions to Sage Accounting using Dext online software
Read more: How to Import multiple PDF Bank Transactions to Sage Accounting using Dext online softwareLearn how to solve the problem of getting a large quantity of bank transactions from multiple PDF file formats into Sage…
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Tax Tips for South African Estate Agents
Read more: Tax Tips for South African Estate AgentsPresented here are tax tips for South African Estate Agents to help them navigate the treacherous tax landscape of South Africa.…
