Author Lisa Newton traveled to Australia and took part in business networking events to meet other local business owners in Melbourne and Sydney Australia. She also visited the famous Ramsey Street! and did the Neighbours bus tour!

One thing is for certain. Whether you are in Australia, USA or the UK – bookkeeping is bookkeeping and the situation is still the same.”

That said, a couple of things were notable about Australia.

The popularity of the software MYOB at the time was extremely high, and there did seem to be a lot more bookkeepers about and qualified (when compared to the UK and USA experience). This just means that either specialising in a field – payroll or legal bookkeeping was ideal, or, (as one bookkeeper I met) – he outsourced to India (his homeland) and was able to be extremely competitive on price as a result. He was the ‘face’ of the business in Australia but it was all being done off shore, and he was planning to franchise that model.