About Us
GiffardSim Accountants is a public accounting firm specialising in the provision of individual and business taxation advice, business accounting services, GST advice, self-managed superannuation accounting and audit, business acquisition due diligence, new business establishment and operations, as well as advising in relation to many other general business and individual accounting needs.
All GiffardSim Accountants advisors are qualified accountants who are members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA) or Certified Practicing Accountants Australia (CPA Australia). Both organisations have rigid initial entry requirements, as well as members being required to meet ongoing professional education requirements as a requisite to retaining membership.
GiffardSim Accountants proactively manage the accounting and taxation affairs of clients from many industries; including: health care (medical practitioner), health care (nursing and other health care professionals), retail, catering and restaurants, wholesale, manufacturing, and community based organisations. Further to this, we also offer a comprehensive individual personal taxation return service, as well as salary packaging advice to defence force personnel, nurses, doctors, non-profit organisation employees, and other individuals wishing to investigate if salary packaging would be tax effective in their particular circumstance.
Our aim is to:
Provide timely, practical, and accurate advice
Provide a very high level of service in a specialist capacity
Be proactive and creative when solving client problems
Communicate effectively with our clients
Assist our clients to achieve efficient and accurate business management practices
Work with our clients to help them achieve their business goals
GiffardSim Accountants provide practical and forward looking services that our clients need on a day-to-day basis. We like to think that business clients see us as a value added extension to their business, and our individual clients see us as committed professionals who provide proactive accurate and independent advice specific to them. We always aim to reduce the worry and workload associated with accounting and compliance issues, as well aiming to legitimately minimise your tax obligations by ensuring our advisors remain committed to ongoing relevant post-graduate tax study.
GiffardSim Accountants are especially proud to continue our close association and commitment to our community. We achieve this by supporting community based organisations through the provision of specialised accounting and audit needs at a reduced cost.
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Our People
Rob Giffard
Rob is a degree qualified accountant holding a Bachelor of Commerce (with Merit) from the University of Wollongong. He is also a Fellow of CPA Australia, as well as a long standing member of the National Tax and Accountants Association (NTAA). Rob has a special interest in advising health care workers, small business operations, wine makers and grape growers, defence force personnel, new businesses to setup their operations, as well as assisting international businesses wishing to establish operations within Australia.
David Sim
Dave is a qualified accountant holding a Bachelor of Business from Charles Sturt University. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (CA). Dave has worked as a public accountant in rural and regional Australia, as well as in the United Kingdom. Dave advises individuals and business clients as well as community based not for profit organisations in all aspects of business development, taxation, finance, and systems development. Dave has a special interest in self managed superannuation and not for profit organisations.
Jodie Whalan
Jodie has 30 years administration experience. As office manager, Jodie's expertise drives our commitment to work flow management and effective and regular client communication. Jodie has an excellent understanding of the needs of our small business clients, which is a result of successfully building and selling her own small business. Jodie's responsibilities include management of our clients' corporate secretarial matters; including, corporate registry maintenance, company annual reviews, and the setup of new companies and trusts. Jodie is directly responsible for processing payroll for clients who have outsourced this function.