Short Courses

Pick up a practical skill this month

Focused online courses for bookkeepers, internal accountants and accounting students who need hands on payroll and BAS skills, without committing to a full program.

$88 per course
100% online, self paced
No prerequisites
Payroll

All You Need to Know to Process Payroll and Lodge STP

Learn how payroll works, what compliance requires, and how to set it up and run it in Xero, through to Single Touch Payroll lodgement.

One monthaccess
Xerobased
Who is it for?
  • Bookkeepers who want to upgrade their skills
  • Internal accountants who need to lodge STP to meet compliance requirements
  • Accounting students who need practical skills
  • Anyone who wants to learn how to process payroll and lodge STP
Course topics
  • Understanding payroll
  • Payroll calculations
  • Setting up payroll
  • PAYG withholding tax
  • Processing payroll
  • Leave entitlements
  • Pay slips and payroll reports
GST and BAS

All You Need to Know to Prepare and Lodge BAS

Understand the Business Activity Statement, the rules behind it, and how and when to prepare and lodge it.

One monthaccess
Noprerequisites
Who is it for?
  • Bookkeepers who want to upgrade their skills
  • Internal accountants who need to prepare and lodge BAS to meet compliance requirements
  • Accounting students who need practical skills
  • Anyone who wants to learn how to prepare and lodge BAS
Course topics
  • Providing BAS services
  • PAYG tax withholding and PAYG instalments
  • The Goods and Services Tax and how it works
  • Methods for calculating GST liability
  • Fringe benefits tax
  • Alternative GST and BAS accounting methods
  • Completing and lodging the activity statement

Why learn with Platinum Professional Training

Practical training from an accounting RTO operating since 2008.

2008

Operating since 2008

Training accounting graduates, career changers and bookkeepers for the Australian workplace.

10,000+

Students trained

Courses built around the tasks employers actually hand to new staff.

4.9★

Google rating

Rated by our students for structured, practical training and support.

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