Skilled companies agency SW Accountants & Advisors is celebrating its ninetieth anniversary in Australia, tracing its heritage again to the founding of Hughes Fincher in Victoria in 1935.
Rebranding from ShineWing 4 years in the past, SW Accountants & Advisors in its current guise emerged out of the Melbourne department of Moore Stephens in 2015, which had began life as Hughes Fincher earlier than the Second World Warfare.
SW stated that it’s going to host a sequence of occasions all year long bringing collectively staff, shoppers, and different stakeholders to rejoice the milestone and honour the agency’s legacy, with a particular graphic to characteristic throughout official communications and supplies.
“This 12 months marks an unimaginable milestone,” stated CEO Duane Rogers. “It’s essential to replicate on the individuals who have been integral to getting us to the place we’re right this moment. Our agency’s objective is to construct lasting relationships with our shoppers and folks to attain success, and we’re proud to have many long-standing shoppers who’ve been with us for over 20 years.”
Rogers additionally famous the quite a few long-serving companions and workers who had helped form the agency over a number of a long time of service, some for even forty years. Amongst them, SW’s first Australia managing companion Marco Carlei – now SW Worldwide managing director – who joined Moore Stephens in 1985 and have become a companion two years later.
ShineWing itself has been working in Australia since 2008, initially via a hook-up with Corridor Chadwick (which has by the way been rising its presence in Asia lately), earlier than then merging with Moore Stephens in Melbourne throughout a relatively chaotic interval of breakaways and consolidation within the Australian accounting trade.
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Beginning out its most up-to-date period with a headcount of 32 companions, that quantity right this moment sits at 46, together with the admission of Amy Zhang and Brent Sheers in March. However there was a notable sense of momentum at SW of late, and a transparent strategic objective of rising its Sydney observe, which just lately welcomed the group from Kreston Stanley Williamson.
The power is demonstrated by SW’s current advertising and marketing drive, ‘Australia’s Finest Stored Accounting Secret’, which was launched in 2023 and can proceed to be put ahead throughout its anniversary 12 months, alongside an worker branding marketing campaign – ‘Uncover countless potentialities’ – designed to showcase the number of careers on supply on the agency.
In additional strong phrases, SW has grown its revenues by round 12 to 16 % over its previous two monetary years to push past the $80 million mark, inserting it at twenty second on the AFR’s annual record of the nation’s largest organisations of its type – two spots behind Moore. The agency has additionally now grown to over 400 professionals, with additional places of work in Brisbane and Perth.
