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sptrawler said:
costs about $1,000 P/A so found it wasn't worth my time.
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I'm paying my accountant about that at the moment, but If I can get BGL 360 down to $110/year and an auditor has quoted $275/year, so the total saving for me would be $600/year ... this could easily become 60k in savings over the 30 years that my fund will be in accumulation mode. I figured it's probably worth my time to do it in the long term. I'm also betting that human labor costs (an accountant) will increase their prices faster than a cloud software vendor (BGL) which hopefully should fall.
 
cancer1981 said:
I'm paying my accountant about that at the moment, but If I can get BGL 360 down to $110/year and an auditor has quoted $275/year, so the total saving for me would be $600/year ... this could easily become 60k in savings over the 30 years that my fund will be in accumulation mode. I figured it's probably worth my time to do it in the long term. I'm also betting that human labor costs (an accountant) will increase their prices faster than a cloud software vendor (BGL) which hopefully should fall.
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Yes I can see your point, I don't have 30 years left. ;)
The other thing I found was unless I was using the software a lot, which I wasn't, it would take me ages to get back up to speed with the double entry accounting.
I'm a sparky not an accountant, so it was costing me more in beer while trying to balance the entries, than I was saving with the software.:D
 
Unshamed plug
Decent acreage with 2 residences for sale in Brisbane hinterland
45 min airport/city
Pm me if interested
 
qldfrog said:
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Decent acreage with 2 residences for sale in Brisbane hinterland
45 min airport/city
Pm me if interested
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Any luck on the sale?

For sale:
HSV WH Grange all original.

Mercedes Benz S500 5L V8 W220 1999 model.

Ford Maverick GQ (Nissan Patrol)
4.2TD turbo, 3" stainless exhaust, 1989, new clutch etc, setup for 4wd.

VW Amarok 2012 4wd 2 litre bi turbo.

Series 2? or 3? Leyland Land rover 1975 model. Engineering done for QLD, Holden blue six, Nissan truck gearbox, dual fuel.

If interested, throw me an offer.
Location near Goulburn Jail... meet you in the carpark. I will be the one in dull green clothing...:eek::D jokes.
Cheers
 
Thai/Viet/Fusion restaurant for sale.

Just thought I put it out there.

Did over 90k in the month till now. Very Covid resistant (Do alot of takeaways).
 
basilio said:
Sounds like a sound investment. Apparently they are already appreciating steeply.
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It's been crazy for some time--particularly the air cooled market. As for mine, I'm the original owner. Never tracked. PCSS service history. Selling to make room for something else. What else can I say--buy it, your wife will hate you and your enemies will love you.
 
Domain name for sale.

Brisbane.com.au.

The Premier domain name for Brisbane. An outstanding opportunity for a State Government to consolidate all it's operations under one umbrella.

Otherwise an opportunity for a far sighted Brisbane based business to acquire a signature commercial domain name.

Cheers
 
Joules MM1 said:
Unliveable Sydney homes going for millions in Australia housing boom
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Whereas opportunity abounds on the Gold Coast
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Anyone interested in watches, I have a few I collected, but never wear, so thinking of moving them on.
 
frugal.rock said:
Any luck on the sale?

For sale:
HSV WH Grange all original.

Mercedes Benz S500 5L V8 W220 1999 model.

Ford Maverick GQ (Nissan Patrol)
4.2TD turbo, 3" stainless exhaust, 1989, new clutch etc, setup for 4wd.

VW Amarok 2012 4wd 2 litre bi turbo.

Series 2? or 3? Leyland Land rover 1975 model. Engineering done for QLD, Holden blue six, Nissan truck gearbox, dual fuel.

If interested, throw me an offer.
Location near Goulburn Jail... meet you in the carpark. I will be the one in dull green clothing...:eek::D jokes.
Cheers
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Still have the HSV WH Grange in the garage.
Still for sale.
Everything else has been moved on.
 
Horse Racing Memorabilia for Sale!

Will Consider all "reasonable offers".....i won't even reply to low ball offers so Please don't waste your or my Time!

PICK UP ONLY!!......MELBOURNE!....Way Too Big for Postage 92cm x 119cm (approx 3ft x 4ft) with Glass Front.
( if you Live interstate, but know someone in Melbourne, i will consider dealing with a third party)

Photo Below & Feel Free to Reach out & message me if interested?.....Cheers!

Some History regarding the horse within the Item.

In 1943, with his career as a serious jockey cut short by an injury and by his conspicuous lack of success, T. J. (Tommy) Smith, in his early twenties, turned his attention to becoming a trainer instead.

‘Bragger’ was the name of a wild brumby - out of ‘Windbag’ an ex-buckjumper - he’d found out on an old paddock at Eulomo Station, near Cootamundra, where he’d gone to work for the Sawyer family after getting out of hospital. Even then, T. J. Smith fancied his own horse sense. “You can just smell a good horse”, he used to say, and he immediately asked why this horse wasn’t part of Max Sawyer’s racing stable.

“Too wild,” he was told. “Unrideable. Anyway, we’re going to shoot him.”

Tommy wouldn’t hear of it and paid old man Sawyer next to nothing for the wild’un and in between his other duties on the station began his attempt to break him in.

“In those days they used to have horse-breakers do that sort of stuff,” he recounts, “but none of them could handle him so I did it myself”.

“I got him in a yard and I could throw a lasso pretty good, and I got him, but, by Jove, it took me a month before I could get a saddle anywhere near him.”

And another two years after that of solid training before he could get Bragger to the racetrack. Along the way, all the oldtimers said he was mad and was wasting time and money. It was about this time that Les Noone was persuaded to take a one-third interest in his very first racehorse! Max Sawyer was also coerced into taking a third. Training was expensive, and but for Tommy’s enthusiasm, Les might have pulled out.

Then, even when Bragger did get to the track, things didn’t go smoothly. He bucked so wildly he pelted the jockey skywards, continued on the inside of the track, then back over the fence onto the track proper. Bridle flying, he bolted around the track, jumped a fence. and was out on the street!

Finally, after enough trials and tribulations to fill a racing bible, Bragger finished a race to come second. Then a third! Then a first - 25/1!!! This was 6/4/1946 when Bragger won the Railway Handicap at Rosehill with George Moore as jockey. Tommy spent three days trying to talk Moore into riding him. Moore said that Bragger was too old to beat good sprinters and that they would run all over him. Smith didn’t give up and rang Moore again on the Friday afternoon before the race. Because Moore hadn’t received any better offers, he took the ride; and was the first to admit his error of judgement when he brought Bragger back to the winner’s circle after the race.



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After this win, he ran in the Doncaster Cup at Randwick on the Easter Saturday, then south for the Wagga Cup, and finally up to Brisbane for the Doomben Cup in June.

Probably because of his age, Bragger suffered from weak legs, and Tommy used to apply a “miracle” liniment to take the soreness out. It was straight after one of these applications that he won the Minto Handicap at 15/1.

In a short time and being heavily backed by his owners, Bragger was suddenly a winner. Through Tommy’s perseverance, Bragger eventually won thirteen races before being tragically burnt in November of 1946 when the horse float he was travelling in caught fire in Parramatta Road, Auburn.



He had bad burns to the legs and stomach and hung on for eleven days with two blood transfusions, penicillin (rare in those days), and soothing ointments. Tommy received 60 to 70 letters and phone calls from people offering to give Bragger a home if he recovered.
 

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