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• ATO

  The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is the principal revenue collection agency for the Australian Government, collecting approximately 92% of revenue at the Federal Government level. It is responsible for administering income tax, pay as you go withholding and instalments (PAYGW and PAYGI), the Australian Business Number (ABN) and Australian Business Register (ABR), goods and services tax (GST), fringe benefits tax (FBT) and much more.

• ASIC

  The Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) is an independent Australian Government body that acts as Australia’s corporate regulator. ASIC’s role is to enforce and regulate company and financial services laws to protect Australian consumers, investors and creditors.

• DOCEP

  The Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) works with the community to ensure high standards of safety and protection for workers and consumers. It is a department within the Western Australian Government.

• ASX

  The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is the primary stock exchange in Australia. ASX began as separate state-based exchanges established as early as 1861. Today trading is all-electronic and the exchange is a public company, listed on the exchange itself. The Australian Securities Exchange, as it is now known, resulted from the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange in December 2006.

• MYOB

  Mind Your Own Business (MYOB) provides software services to small and medium business, and is particularly well known in Australia and New Zealand. Their products and services range from entry level accounting software through to multi user enterprise software (MYOB Exonet and MYOB PayrollEnterprise). Other products include retails point of sale software, asset management, payroll, payment services, practice and tax software and E-commerce solutions.

• QUICKEN

  Quicken is a personal finance management tool, with a vast array of features. There are several versions of Quicken including, but not limited to: Quicken New User, Quicken Basic, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Premier and Quicken Home & Business. Each version of Quicken also tends to have the release year in the product name, (e.g. Quicken Basic 2008).