Accountants

Accountants, Advertorial 12 September 2018

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Accountants, Public Examinations, VA's & DoCA's 1 August 2018

Payless auditor too anxious to attend examination

It might not have been around as long as God and the Devil but for genuine enmity can any rivalry match the hellfire-eclipsing friction generated when insolvency practitioners go auditors? In this particular chapter of the eternal struggle, Ferrier Hodgson’s Peter Gothard and Jim Stewart have finally taken the tridents to Moore Stephens’ Elizabeth Perez and Jeff Matchett, auditors of Payless Shoes. We say finally because the Ferriers duo…

Accountants, Lawyers, Liquidations, VA's & DoCA's 31 January 2018

The top ranking insolvency practices of 2017

2017 is done, the numbers have come in and names of note appear among those firms that snared the lion’s share of external administrations (exad) in the year just gone. According to a table of top performers assembled by lawyer Bruce Pasetti’s Stratos Legal, the firm that scooped the largest number of voluntary administrations (VAs) in NSW last year was Domenic Calabretta’s Mackay Goodwin, which notched up…

Exit plan awry after judge dismisses entirety of liquidator's case

Accountants, Deals & Departures, Liquidators, Litigation 27 September 2017

Judge unconvinced by SA liquidator’s exit plan

The demolition of the liquidator’s exit plan could not have been more sweeping or complete. In 500 plus paragraphs delivered on Monday, Justice Greg Parker of the Supreme Court of South Australia dismissed every argument of Adelaide liquidator Nick Orfanos in a battle commenced a decade ago. Orfanos, accountant Michael Michaels and Willem (Bill) Ouwens, who as well as being an accountant is the Honorary Consul for the…

Accountants, VA's & DoCA's 15 September 2017

DIRRI new weapon in war for work?

Many will have seen the somewhat depressing numbers in respective of formal insolvency appointments released by ASIC this week. As that report coincided with SiN being directed by one practitioner to take note of a particular DIRRI issued by rivals, it got us to thinking whether in the desperate clamour for work, the renewed focus on independence brought about by KordaMentha’s pre-appointment activities at the…

Accountants, Discipline 7 June 2017

Raided Plutus accountancy has staffer with PAYG form

The Parramatta accounting firm raided last month as part of the alleged multi-million dollar Plutus Payroll fraud boasts a staff member intimately acquainted with the consequences visited upon accountants who pinch the taxman’s PAYG. Scahill & Co’s business development manager Darren Kallen, 51 (pictured) was formerly known as Darren Allen Kay, (pictured below) one-time registered auditor and partner at Baulkam Hills district accounting firm Fleming Moynihan &…

Fraud bust likely to flush out more accused.

Accountants, Discipline, Regulation/Legislation 19 May 2017

Insolvency referrer charged in ATO fraud bust

There’s going to be some boot quaking in insolvency town following yesterday’s spectacular ATO fraud bust. One of those those hauled before court as an alleged party to the grand conspiracy is none other than Jason ‘Jay’ Onley, the one-time Winter Olympian who cut his insolvency teeth at Fox Syme’s 180 Corporate before heading out to make his way as an advisor and referrer. Onley’s…

Gebie Services liquidators repel challenge to examination summonses

Accountants, Liquidators, Public Examinations 31 March 2017

Gebie Liquidators repel challenge on summonses

Down in South Australia, Heard Phillips principals Andrew Heard and Anthony Phillips recently fended off a challenge to summonses requiring a range of parties for examination including RSM director Matthew Gordge. The summonses were issued in early February as part of investigations into the affairs of Gebie Services, to which Heard and Phillips were appointed liquidators in June 2016 following an application to the Federal Court…

Phoenix target Armstrong and Shaw wound up

Accountants, Discipline, Liquidators 17 February 2017

Advisory at centre of Phoenix probe wound up

Worrells’ Adelaide partner Nick Cooper has moved to wind up a company targeted by the multi-agency Phoenix Taskforce in a series of raids last year. On February 8 in the Federal Court of South Australia orders were made appointing Pitcher Partners Andrew Yeo and Gess Rambaldi liquidators of Armstrong and Shaw Pty Ltd, one of a group of companies connected to controversial pre-insolvency advisor Philip…

Accountants, Deals & Departures 3 February 2017

Veritas on the move after Orca Property play

After almost a decade domiciled at 88 Pitt Street, Veritas Advisory principal David Iannuzzi is moving out, though the new digs could hardly be located in more familiar surrounds given he and his team are moving across the road to Angel Place. Level 12, 88 Pitt used to be owned by the late Murray Godfrey of RMG Partners. Godfrey and Iannuzzi formed Veritas Advisory in 2013 and…

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