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AM-Win Newsletter April 2007 In this edition
AM-Win will be holding a National Distributor and Consultants conference in Sydney on 24,25 and 26 May. All distributors will be attending so they will be unavailable on the Thursday and Friday. National Support will be available on the Thursday and Friday, although not at full capacity. Client Survey
I'm also the one that nags you to update your AM-Win regularly, register for Microsoft upgrades so your security patches are all in place and to update your Virus protection and firewall software on a regular basis. I now know how a radio announcer must feel, waffling away and wondering just how many people are listening without any sort of feedback. I sit in my office and wonder not only how many people read the newsletter but if they get something out of it. When I receive feedback from an AM-Win user [especially complimentary] it makes my day to know that someone out there has read and enjoyed the articles that are published. |
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. Our survey last month asking whether we should bring jokes back to the newsletter bought the highest response rate to date with over 70% voting yes and nearly 10% saying only if they're clean. So starting with this newsletter the jokes are back by popular demand. It's hard finding really good jokes that are clean but I'll do my best. See what responding to our survey can do. This month's survey asks if you would like to see information published by Occupational Health and Safety Australia published in the newsletter. I've published a couple of examples below so that you can see what's on offer and judge whether it's of use to you. I'd would also like to invite anyone who has a good news story, a business article or just a great joke [ but like John West we only pick the best] to e-mail me at webmaster@am-win.com.au . Business Profiles If you believe that your business is a bit special and would like to see it profiled in the newsletter email me at webmaster@am-win.com.au and I'll be happy to work with you and publish the profile. Feed back received I received the following e-mail from Tony at Autohaus Strecker via the AM-Win head office last month that was very much appreciated and I thank Tony very much for his feedback. I have published Tony's e-mail below. Hi, and thank you for your Newsletter, there hasn't been a single one where
I haven't learned something from. Thank you for the free information. When you
had the joke section I used to remember the good ones (which means most of
them) and tell them at dinner parties. Let me tell you they caused a few good
laughs and curiosity where I got them from. No seriously please bring them
back on and lots of them! Now Tony just for you I have selected some special yarns that can be told over dinner without offending anyone. Thanks again for your feedback. Remember the e-mail address is webmaster@am-win.com.au if you have something to say or contribute. Cheers Dennis OHS Australia WA - Worksafe Lunchtime information sessions - 4Thought SA - New report highlights need for clear workplace policies on
drugs & alcohol NSW: Public Comment on Preventing and Dealing with Workplace
Bullying A nice bit of spin Unashamedly stolen from Reader's Digest Every year there's a football game between our Marketing Department and our support staff. And every year the support staff wins. Or so they thought until the Spin Doctors in Marketing took over. The marketing department is pleased to announce read the memo issued to all employees after the game, that for the 2006 football season we came in second place having lost only one game all year. The Support Department however had a dismal season as they won only one game. Timesheet Manager As a manager of a service or job based business you have two main products to offer your customers. First is the labour provided by your staff that you on-sell to your customers and second is the stock that you sell either over the counter or for use on your customer's vehicles, machinery, mowers or planes. You probably know everything about the cost of your stock, where to buy it at the most competitive price, how many of which part number you sell, the profit you make from each part number and you probably have a pretty good handle on the total profit made from the sale of stock at the end of each month. But do you have the same iron control on your labour costs and sales. Stock's pretty much stock. It doesn't take time off, it doesn't come in late or go home early. But your labour does - it can be variable and constantly milking your profitability because you as a manager are not getting what you pay for. So how can you keep that iron grip on your labour costs and make sure that you only pay for what you get. Try AM-Win Time Sheet Manager. If you sell the labour from productive staff Time Sheet Manager is a must as it ensures that you only pay your staff for the hours that they have actually worked. Time Sheet Manager requires that all employees "click" in and out so that management can check and track time spent on job, non productive time and unusual occurrences. Timesheet Manager writes directly to job cards and as such information entered into the time sheet manager updates the appropriate job card automatically. Reports can be printed out daily or weekly and shows the Manager time on and off jobs, hours actually booked between two dates, non productive internal work [eg cleaning] or time away from work whether it be for paid or unpaid reasons. Enquiries If you have three or more employees that provide saleable labour then Time Sheet Manager is a must. E-Mail sales@am-win to enquire and one of our Consultants will back in touch to assist you. My printer jammed when printing my bank deposit. Can I get another copy. Double click on the "deposit posting" line, then click on go to view the banking on screen. Click on the print button to print.
I need to track the entries which make up by Bas figures. Where can I
find this. If you are now passed the Bas period, then go to History. Make the relevant selection for year and month and click on OK.
When using Ledger / GST Payments and entering a value in 'Instalment'
what ledger does the system default setup use? Windows Tips
Let's go Phishing By now most of you will have heard of the term Phishing which as it's weird name implies is the practice of dangling bait in the water to see if it attracts something. Only in this case the bait is an e-mail offering something or a warning that something bad may happen if you don't follow the instructions in the e-mail or a request to update your records. Phishing e-mails generally look as if they come from financial institutions [banks, building societys etc] and are designed to get you to reveal your financial details to the sender so that your bank account can be pillaged and looted. We have wanted to write this article for some time and then bingo - while checking e-mail one Sunday morning a beautiful example [image below] turned up in the inbox. Not only can we provide you with screen clips of what happens when you reply to a phishing e-mail but we can take the opportunity to warn you of the scam. Let's start - here's the offending e-mail
The alarm bells start Ding Ding - have we ever received an e-mail from the ATO before - no - they send out very official looking letters with their logo on a Window envelope marked confidential. And we know that they will never provide you with information unless you provide them with your Tax File Number which they tell you to keep confidential. The next thing that gave our phisherman away was the standard and content of the e-mail. It had an ATO header on it but it looked pretty ordinary as did the presentation of the e-mail in general. Thirdly the e-mail advised that we had a refund due from the taxation department [the bait] and requested that we go to the ATO web site to apply for the refund. And last it was signed regards Australian Government. Hmmm - when did the ATO or the Australian Government ever send their regards So having made sure that our firewalls were active to prevent any worms, trojans or other malware from attacking our systems we went phishing for the phisher. We clicked the link and we were taken to what looked like the ATO web site.
This phisherman has done some hard work to make his scam look the part and to suck in the unwary Phish [you]. On first pass the site looks like the ATO web site . Even the search and the menu links activate the genuine ATO web site. On looking closely we can see a couple of things that give it away. The first thing is that although the page asks for bank and credit card details there is no indication that it is a secure web site. A secure site will always show a padlock icon on the bottom left of the screen. Secondly the website's URL or address in the address bar gives it away. Lets look at the real ATO website address.
Now let's have a look at the bogus ATO site address
As expected the web site address has nothing to do with the ATO. [Why would the ATO be using bigart.com to host their website]. The site's URL [address] is usually the main giveaway that the site has been designed to look like an official site. Summary Banks, the ATO and other financial institutions never send e-mails asking for your financial details. If you think about it why would they - they probably know more about you than you do. If you receive an e-mail that looks like it came from one of these institutions delete it. If by chance the phisherman struck it lucky and sent you an e-mail that looks like it came from someone that you do business with and you're not sure that it's genuine check with them to see if the e-mail is genuine. Last month we published information about Internet Explorer version seven. An enhancement in version seven allows you to check to see whether a web site is suspected of being a phishing site and report a site that you believe to be a phishing site. Click the icon with the exclamation mark at the bottom of Internet Explorer 7 screen that looks like the image below
Wait a couple of seconds then have a look in the address bar of Internet Explorer 7 and you will see that the address bar has turned pink and that it reports the site as a phishing site. - See image below
If on checking IE7 doesn't report the site as being a phishing site and you're still convinced that it is then you can report the site as a suspected phishing site. Click tools/phishing filter/report this website at the top right side of IE7
Now you are able to fill in a form [no names] and report the site - now take a coffee break - you deserve it - you've just saved the world. Follow up - we checked on the [genuine} ATO web site and they have posted a warning about this particular phishing scam that reads as follows: The Tax Office has warned people about a fraudulent email being circulated that claims to offer a refund from the Tax Office. The email fraudulently uses the Tax Office logo and has the words ‘Australian Taxation Office – Please Read This’ in the subject line. The Tax Office is advising people who receive the email that it does not contain any malicious software but to delete it immediately. The email asks people to click on a link which redirects them to a website that looks similar to the Tax Office website and asks for credit card and personal details. This website is not affiliated with the Tax Office in any way. The Tax Office has notified relevant authorities who are investigating this matter. People should be wary of unsolicited emails claiming to be from the Tax Office. The Tax Office will never send out emails to taxpayers asking them to provide personal information including credit card details. As an extra precaution we recommend you type internet addresses directly into your internet browser rather than clicking on hyperlinks embedded in emails If people have entered their credit card information on the website, they should contact their credit card provider as soon as possible and report a possible compromise. Business Information EOY - Tax Review is KEY by Sandra
Woods CPA. Keep in mind that if you are a small business, there are a series of
concessions available to you, so it would pay to work this one through so you
can maximize your capital gains position.
. From Dennis our webmaster
When I returned home I decided to run a search on the Submarine Onslow the submarine moored in the Harbour and see if I could learn more about the old lady. Google returned over half a million results about either the Onslow or about her sisters, the other Oberon Class Submarines around the world. I spent a day investigating the most promising search results and have written a brief article about the Onslow and her Australian sisters. I hope that you enjoy reading the article as much as I did researching and writing it.
Oberon class submarines were very quiet for their day, and stayed in service with the Australian, British, Chilean and Canadian navies past the year 2000. At the time, they were state of the art conventional subs, despite being based on a late-WWII German hull design. They were originally fitted with two stern-facing 'short' torpedo tubes, but the advent of reliable guided torpedos made these obsolete. The stern tubes were then either used for beer storage for the crew, or were eventually converted for other uses (the Canadian Navy used this space for the installation of a towed array sonar). Built in England and named after a Western Australian town, Onslow is a conventional submarine - diesel electric powered, capable of diving to depths of more than 190 metres and designed to combine high speed and great underwater endurance with anti-surface vessel and anti-submarine attack capabilities. At 90 metres in length Onslow carried a complement of up to 60 sailors and 8 officers. The Oberon class submarine played a vital role protecting Australia for more than 30 years, from 1967 through to 2000. They were commissioned in the middle years of the cold war, a dangerous period of intense military competition and tension between the communist block under the Soviet Union and the United States of America and its allies. Onslow worked on patrols in the Pacific and Indian Oceans playing an important role in intelligence gathering, photographic reconnaissance, mine laying, surveillance, anti-submarine warfare, and hunting enemy surface ships. The missions carried out between 1978 and 1992 were very dangerous, with the Royal Australian Navy submarines occasionally sliding under or alongside potentially hostile ships. It's reported that on one occasion, less than three metres separated the top of the periscope housing from the target ship's keel.
It is tradition in RAN and RN submarines to give the engines nick names and the two diesel engines on Onslow, named "Bonnie" and "Clyde", were powerful enough to run generators capable of supplying power to a small city. The engines take their air from within the boat when submerged and when on
the surface it's drawn down the conning tower hatch and through the snorkel or
snort at periscope depth. Onslow carried 100,000 gallons of diesel fuel - the equivalent of eight road tankers which gave the Onslow a range of 9,000 nautical miles at 12 knots surfaced. Onslow could go to sea for several months and stay underwater for more than six weeks at a time...using the snort system to draw air in while running at periscope depth.
ONSLOW has travelled 358,068 nautical miles in her time - the equivalent to sixteen and a half times around the world.
Jokes The clean one first From Ross in Tasmania A little girl walks in to the lounge one Sunday morning while
her Dad is reading the paper. The next jokes are a little on the risque side - if you're not comfortable with this genre of joke please don't read on - but they're really not that bad. According to union rules A dedicated union organiser was attending a convention in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and decided to check out the local brothels. When he got to the first one, he asked the Madam, Is this a union house? "No," she replied, I'm sorry it isn't. Well, if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get? The house gets $80 and the girls get $20 she answered The man asked, And if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get? The girls get $80 and the house gets $20 said the Madam. That's great said the union man. He handed the Madam $100, looked around the room, and pointed
to a stunningly attractive blonde. I'd like her, he said Thanks to Ted Steward from AM-Win head office for our next offering Speaking of the ATO *The Tax Office decides to audit Ralph, and summons him to the Tax Office. The ATO auditor is not surprised when Ralph shows up with his lawyer. The auditor says, "Listen, sir, you have an extravagant
lifestyle and no full-time employment, which you explain by saying that you
win money gambling. I'm not sure the ATO finds that believable." The auditor thinks for a moment and said, "Okay. Go ahead." Ralph says, "I'll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye." The auditor thinks a moment and says, "No way! It's a bet." Ralph removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor's jaw drops. - Ralph says, "Now, I'll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye." The auditor can tell Ralph isn't blind, so he takes the bet. Ralph removes his dentures and bites his good eye. The stunned auditor now realises he has wagered and lost three grand, with Ralph's lawyer as a witness. He starts to get nervous. "Want to go double or nothing?" Ralph asks. "I'll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between." The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks
carefully and decides there's no way this guy can manage that stunt, so he
agrees again. Ralph stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although
he strains mightily, he can't make the stream reach the wastebasket on other
side, so he pretty much pees all over the desk. "Are you okay?" the auditor asks. "Not really," says the attorney. "This morning, when Ralph told me he'd been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty grand that he could come in here and let go all over an ATO auditor's desk and that you'd be happy about it." Have you spoken with your wife? Thanks to Ross Thomas for the following yarn. A man wakes up in hospital, bandaged from head to foot. Eve's side of the story The following is a repeat that we published a while back - but
it's one that you can tell over dinner or in the pub and it's well worth
repeating for those who didn't get to read it the first time. "Just fantastic," she replied, "But for one
oversight on your part. You see, all the animals are paired off. The ewe has a
ram and the cow has her bull. All the animals have a mate except me. I
feel so alone." Now let's see.....where did I put the useless boob?" Until next month
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Hi
everyone, I'm Dennis and I write the AM-Win newsletter, researching
articles, sorting, collating and editing the information provided by head
office and from Clients and Consultants around the country. The
newsletter is the result of a huge Team effort and we take a great deal of
satisfaction in providing you with what we hope is interesting and useful
information in a relaxed and friendly manner.
Note:
The above information has been contributed by 
Onslow
was named after the Western Australian town [although some say it's named
after the river Onslow in WA], served in the Royal Australian Navy for 30
years, between December 1969 and 1999 and was one of Australia's six Oberon
class submarines. Her five sister submarines are Ovens, Orion, Otama, Oxley
and Otway. Some of these are on display at various museums and parks around
Australia - 
The
Oberon class submarines were powered by two mechanically supercharged V16 –
ASR1 [Admiralty Standard Range 1] diesel engines of 3680 bhp at speeds up to
15 knots when running on the surface, and two English Electric Co. battery
powered electric main propulsion motors of 6000 shp driving twin shafts. when
running submerged. These batteries, although allowing the submarine to travel
underwater up to speeds of 17 knots, only lasted for relatively short periods
before requiring a recharge from the main diesel engines. 
The
forward torpedo room is home to six 21-inch torpedo tubes and where torpedoes,
mines and harpoon anti-shipping missiles were stowed and fired. The Onslow was
capable of carrying 22 torpedoes. The photo on the left is of the forward end
of the torpedo compartment on the ONSLOW. A mock torpedo is loaded in Tube 2,
as seen with the propeller. Tube 1 is open, with a light shining down it. The
lower two tubes were power loaded; the rest were loaded manually. 