This course provides an introduction to the four basic types of accounting—bookkeeping and financial, managerial, and tax accounting—and explains the links between accounting, decision-making, business performance, and financial health

Designed to give business professionals—including managers, analysts, and entrepreneurs—the confidence they need to use financial data to drive strategic decision-making.

Chairman of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), Kevin Stevenson discusses the AASB's current function in the Australian regulatory environment

Explores the various types of fringe benefits, identifies reportable fringe benefits and explains the employee declaration forms that need to be completed to minimise TMR's Fringe Benefits Tax.

Understand what GST is, what the terminology means and how it is relevant to departmental operations.

The course explains the different tax codes used within the department, and explains the type of transactions where the different codes apply.

Taxation laws and TMR policy require that valid logbooks be maintained. From April 2020, TMR has replaced the manual logbook with an electronic (IVMS) solution in all QFleet vehicles. Logbooks will still be required for non-QFleet vehicles .

This quick tutorial gives an introduction to accounting and explains the concepts of income statement (Profit & Loss), balance sheet and the accounting equation (Assets = Liabilities + Equity).

This resource explains what an asset is, asset master data and guidance on managing the life cycle of an a non-current asset.

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the accrual process. It outlines and discusses the different types of accruals and how each type is treated differently. The presentation is about 30 minutes in duration and moves automatically. Headphones or speakers are to be used as there is a commentary.

A component of the Project Management Foundations - Small Projects course defining how to draft a scope statement

All Queensland Government departments are required to document their systems of internal control and other financial management practices in a Financial Management Practice Manual (FMPM)

This course aims to give you an understanding of the importance of Internal Controls and your role as a TMR employee in maintaining high standards of Internal Controls.

‘Financial Delegations and You’ aims to provide financial delegates with a comprehensive understanding of their responsibilities as a delegate and an overview of the TMR financial delegation framework and legislative requirements.

How to use internal controls to increase the integrity of your financial statements and look at the types of financial reporting problems that can occur and safeguards to minimise them.

Ethical frameworks for accountants, the role of ethics in business finances, the differences between ethics, values, and beliefs. Defines ethics within accounting, ethics specifically for accountants, and ethics in legal structures and corporate cultures. The importance of professional competency, professional accountability, and internal controls in retaining public trust. Key aspects of corporate governance, concluding with some useful advice on ethics in practice.

Learn how to design a financial model and find out how it can benefit your business.

Learn how to use past data such as cost of goods sold, depreciation expenses, and levels of inventory, and understand what caused those numbers to fluctuate over time. Then you can learn how to use the information as the basis for forecasting, applying a simple but powerful equation: assets = liability + equity

This course aims to give you an understanding of the best practice approach to classifying costs into Capex vs Opex.

This document provides users with guidance on using two key Budget Tool files - the Control File and the Cost Centre Template file.

How document guides TMR staff in how to prepare cost centre budgets, budget changes and standard rate costings. This ensures consistency in budgeting and costing throughout the department and make the process as simple as possible for staff.

This course is designed to introduce you to the concepts and principles that apply to budgeting and planning across the department. It will explain how funding is allocated, how funding and resourcing should be managed in annual budget cycles and how additional funding can be requested.

Guidance for TMR staff on how to complete a variance analysis on monthly forecasting spreadsheets.

Understand managerial accounting including costs and cost behaviors, cost-volume-profit (CVP) relationships, cost flows, standard costing and activity-based costing, and budgeting.

How do you get “unstuck”? Building on insights from improv, design thinking, comedy writing, and startup incubation, the lessons in this course offer you concrete tools for creative thinking.

Strategies for identifying and developing a compelling problem and solution statement, including how to identify customer pain points and highlight the tangible remedies your offering provides.

Learn how to get into the right mental space for strategic conversation. Discover how to engage sophisticated customers through high-level questioning and body language, as well as how to negotiate without damaging a relationship or descending to the lowest possible dollar.

What it means to become an adaptive organization, including decisions made about who to hire, what the company values as important, how to align processes, how to think about risk, and what behavior senior leaders need to model for the rest of the organization

How to carve out time to think about strategy, gather data, learn from the past, create a vision for the future, and implement strategic thinking within your team.

This course will provide you with a good understanding of why logbooks are required, how they are used and what you need to do to compile a logbook correctly.

Being issued with a Queensland Government Corporate Purchasing Card (QGCPC) provides procuring flexibility for your business unit. This course will provide you with information on the policies and procedures you need to know to ensure you are using your QGCPC in a compliant and accountable way at all times.

In this video tutorial you will learn the main financial reporting basics and fundamentals.

Introduction to the Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Warehouse (BW) tools in SAP valuable to all who want to understand what is required to develop within the BI and BW solutions. Discover how to pull and organize data from sources, map data into InfoObjects, modify data, combine data from multiple sources, and store your data in memory with SAP HANA.

Quickly learn how to manage accounts payable (AP) tasks and learn the fundamentals of basic AP reporting in the SAP suite of enterprise software. Get acquainted with the entry and review of non-purchase order and purchase order invoices in SAP.

Understand SAP system operations - an overview to learn what SAP is, why it is so important in today’s job market and what you can do to learn basic SAP skills

Explore SAP Reporting Tips and Tricks including where you can find reports, how to set up variants, change layouts and download reports to Excel for further manipulation.

Understand how to let a user interact with your datasets (through Power Query)

This resource explains how create and change asset master data in SAP.

Discover how to quickly glean insights from your data using Power BI.

How Power BI dashboards work, including the building blocks of a dashboard, how to select the right data and connect it to your dashboard.

Discover how to conduct power pivots, import data, clean and shape data, as well as model data, perform calculations with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), and visualize data with the variety of built-in charts and graphs in Power BI

This is the second Australian Qualification Framework course offered in TMR. This course is focused on the role of the Project Manager.

How to design and customize the setup of visuals and charts to make it easy to use, understand, and interact with the dashboard model. Learn how to work with data from open-source websites, create visuals such as heatmaps and sparklines, compare multiple variables with trendlines and violin plots, and build engaging maps

Learn what Microsoft Business Intelligence is and how it benefits the design communication process. Examine the differences between Power BI versions. Find out how to start a Power BI project, then explore the Power BI interface.

Using dataflows in Power BI, you can easily ingest, transform, integrate, and enrich data from a wide variety of sources.

Advanced capabilities of the service. She shows how to work with calculations, leverage the DAX language, create advanced queries, and use the M language to improve the querying process.

Presenting data and information in story form maximizes the effectiveness of our communication

This series is perfect for anyone interested in how information is presented to the mass market, including professionals in all levels of analytics, data science, and communications.

Review basic grammar rules and then focuses on more advanced grammar principles such as using correct words, locating incorrect grammar in sentences and paragraphs, and reviewing parts of speech, punctuation, and proper sentence structure.

Discover the secrets to effective business writing and crafting messages that others want to read and act on.

This course shows how to give all your writing more impact, regardless of its purpose

Learn how to prepare strong business presentations.

Learn methods you can use to communicate your message effectively to these key decision makers, resulting in buy-in and response. Discover the value of brevity and the importance of conveying the return on investment (ROI).

A series of tips and tricks, emphasizing practical techniques you can use before and during a presentation to maximize its effectiveness

Explore what causes people to feel nervous and shares some common anxiety management pitfalls. He then offers anxiety management techniques to help you become more comfortable and confident when speaking in front of others.

How to successfully export a Keynote deck and deliver a compelling presentation.

How to develop a cost estimate for all types of organizations. Covers topics including: various data types associated with cost estimating, how to report cost estimates, and tips for keeping the cost estimate accurate by validating data.

Basic project management concepts and is a pre-requisite course to more formal project management learning and development courses in TMR.

This qualification is perfect for those wanting to enhance their skills in the workplace or those experienced in the project management field but just want to formalise their knowledge.

how to manage smaller scale projects with a simpler yet effective approach. She defines what "small" means in the context of project management and provides an overview of the life cycle of a small project, sharing the best techniques for planning, getting things done, tracking progress, and wrapping up.

How to spot new opportunities, pivot, and innovate when the world around them has gone mad. Discover how to set the groundwork for innovation, encourage your teams to generate innovative ideas, and select the best ideas to prototype and launch into action.

how to adopt the A3 process in order to approach problems, improve results, and drive organizational learning. Discover how to clarify the role of each stakeholder, identify and quantify the problem, find multiple contributing causes, and brainstorm countermeasures. 

A free, 60-minute training on Microsoft Excel for the new or novice user. The training will focus on overall navigation, formatting, simple formulas, charts and tables and an overview of printing.

Take a dive into the intermediate features of Excel formatting, functions, and accessibility. 

Demystify PivotTables and understand how to use them to analyze your data. 

Demystify PivotTables and understand how to use them to analyze your data. 

Understand the best times to use a macro, and then how to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to set up a basic macro in Excel to record your mouse clicks and keystrokes. 

A crash course in Excel formatting to make your spreadsheets more readable and compelling

Learn critical formula shortcuts that will speed up your work, and explore a variet of functions, such as VLOOKUP, MATCH, and INDEX, statistical functions, text functions, and date and time, math, text, and information functions

Learn time-saving tricks for creating formulas rapidly, accelerating data entry, and navigating within worksheets efficiently

Learn how to prepare your raw data for analysis; leverage formatting, sorting, filtering, and grouping options; display values in multiple ways; create PivotCharts.

A quick introduction to macros and VBA. Learn the steps of recording a basic macro, then demonstrates how to edit macros, including testing and adjusting, and making recorded macros dynamic

This course provides a thorough introduction to this powerful and overlooked feature and shows how to use macros and the data model to extend PivotTables even further.

Go from beginner to power PivotTable user.

The Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language allows you to automate routine tasks in Excel—and it's not as hard to learn as most people think.

Learn basic pivot table skills.

Everything you need to know to quickly get started with writing VLOOKUP and troubleshooting

Learn how to create an interactive dashboard using Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts.