General Contact Details
Abbott’s Pty Ltd

1068 Hay Street WEST PERTH WA 6872
Phone: (08) 9321 2642 Fax: (08) 9322 1385 Email: recep@abbotts.net.au
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The Team
Abbott's Chartered Accountants founding philosophy is to provide a highly professional and personalised service to a select and highly valued client base. Since 1990 the Practice has consistently delivered on this philosophy by ensuring that our team is highly qualified at the outset and then provided with consistently high levels of specialised training and development. It is this deeply imbedded skill set of professionalism that ensures that we can deliver quality outcomes as individuals and collectively as a team.
Our philosophy of professionalism is not restricted to our accountants, auditors, planners and tax specialists, but extends to all staff who are responsible for the efficient, timely and reliable delivery of our services. Our administration and support services staff are also highly motivated and trained to deliver consistently at their best. Our support staff recognise the important interaction their roles have with other members of the team together with our clients and the industry participants who interact with ours and our clients businesses.
We provide our team with the professional skills to match their motivation to excel and then give them the freedom to utilise those skills to help our clients achieve their objectives.
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Bradley Abbott - CA, B.Bus
Partner

Bradley is a Director and Co-Founder of Abbott's Chartered Accountants.
Bradley has a Bachelor of Business Degree from Curtin University. He has been a Chartered Accountant since 1978 and a partner in this accounting practice and its forerunners since 1988. He continues to provide strong leadership for this Practice.
Bradley’s professional skills are as diverse as our client’s business interests. His professional qualifications include being a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a Tax Agent, a Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia, a Commissioner for Declarations, and a registered Company Auditor. These are merely the foundations which 29 years of business advisory skills have been built upon.
Bradley’s career/business objective is to provide highly professional advice and services to enable our clients to manage their business and personal affairs in a manner likely to create long term wealth and financial security while remaining socially and environmentally responsible.
Bradley is a director of a number of client companies to which he applies his business management and leadership skills. He particularly enjoys assisting clients with strategic business planning and managing business growth.
He is married with two children and enjoys boating, art collecting, gardening and is a car enthusiast.
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Christopher Higham - CA, ASIA, DCFP, B.Bus, Dip.Sec
Partner

Chris is a Director and Co-Founder of Abbott's Chartered Accountants.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1983 with a major in accounting and minors in law and economics he worked in the audit field while he completed his post graduate studies in Finance. Whilst initially expecting to concentrate on stock broking and finance he was eventually encouraged in 1987 to join Haines Norton Chartered Accountants where his first cousin Bradley Abbott was a partner. In 1990 he and Bradley left the Haines Norton national network and formed Abbott's Chartered Accountants.
Recognising that the financial, business and taxation advisory services industry is continually evolving, Chris has continued to expand his professional skills and experience. Apart from his Bachelor of Business Degree he also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Securities and a Certificate in Financial Planning from the Financial Services Institute of Australia. He is also a Chartered Accountant, Tax Agent, Registered Company Auditor and Financial Planner. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA), a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FINSIA), a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia (TIA) and an Associate of the National Tax Agents Association.
Apart from dealing with the general business affairs of our clients, Chris also specialises in financial, wealth and estate planning, strategic taxation planning, systems analysis, auditing, business management, corporate governance, management training and venture, project and general business capital raising. Chris also has extensive experience in business transformation services leading to mergers acquisitions and initial public offerings.
In addition to Abbott's Chartered Accountants, Chris also holds executive and non-executive directorships in various companies involved in technology, manufacturing, importing, health and safety and financial planning, in regional, national and international spheres of operation.
He is married with two children and enjoys yachting, boating, fishing, travel and surfing.
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David Drake - B.Com., Grad. Dip. Bus. Law, CPA
Partner

David is our Tax Specialist and has worked in the tax and accounting field since 1982. David spent a couple of years early in his career working in the ATO. He joined the Abbotts team in 1997 and became a Partner of the Practice in July 2000. His responsibilities include staff training and quality review.
David is has a bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of WA, he is a CPA, a registered Tax Agent and a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia.
He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Law from Curtin University and a certificate in Financial Planning from the Securities Institute of Australia.
David enjoys building strong long term client relationships and being able to assist them through good and not so good times. As well as solving compliance issues David has assisted clients in many aspects of their business and personal lives. He also enjoys the challenges of keeping his own and the Abbott’s team’s knowledge and skills up to date in a world of constant change.
David is married with two children and enjoys water sports, golf, cycling and going to the gym.
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Stephen Hollyock - CA
Accountant

Stephen is a Senior Associate of the Practice. He joined the firm in January 2000 and brings with him 15 years of experience in Taxation and Business Services. He has also been an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia since 1989, and a member of the Chartered Accountants (UK) since 1991.
Stephen is married with two children and enjoys fishing and flying
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Melissa Hansen - B.Com, CA
Accountant

Melissa joined the firm in November 1999 as our Office Assistant and is now one of our senior account managers.
Melissa completed her Bachelor of Commerce degree at UWA and also holds a CA which will assist her in achieving her career aspirations.
Mel enjoys netball, tennis and bike riding.
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David Chang - FCCA (UK)
Accountant

David is a Senior Accountant and has worked for the practice's principals since March 1989. He has worked in the Chartered Accounting field since 1980 and has been a member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (UK) since 1986.
David enjoys bike riding and jogging.
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Daniel Del Borrello - B.Com
Accountant

Daniel joined the practice in January 2004 and brings five years of taxation experience in public practice. Daniel is an Associate member of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants (ASA).
Daniel is married with two young children, he enjoys bike riding, fishing, social tennis and is a car enthusiast.
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Adam Boddington - CA
Accountant

Adam joined the practice in February 2001, completed his CA in 2001 and brings many years of experience in accounting and taxation to our practice. Adam specialises in the firms superannuation affairs and is eager to extend his commercial experience to our diverse client range.
Adam is married with two young children and enjoys the footy, soccer and spending time with his family.
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Gabrielle Zonato - B.Bus
Accountant

Gabrielle commenced with the practice in September 2003.
Gabrielle has been working as an accountant since completing her Bachelor of Business degree at ECU in 2001 and is currently undertaking the CPA program to achieve her career aspirations.
Gabby enjoys socialising and netball.
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Helder Kacomanolis - B.Bus
Accountant

Helder joined the practice in February 2007. Before then he completed a Bachelor of Business from Edith Cowan University majoring in Accounting and Business Law. Currently he is undertaking the CPA program so that he can provide the best possible service to the firms clients.
In his spare time he enjoys working out at the gym and playing sports.
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Vicky Robertson - B.Compt
Accountant

Vicky joined Abbott's in June 2007 and has worked in the accounting practice environment since 2002. She holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science degree from the University of South Africa and recently completed Applied Tax with the Taxation Institute of Australia.
Vicky is married and a mother of two young boys. She enjoys the theatre, golfing and decorating novelty cakes.
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Beatie Lau - B.Com
Accountant

Beatie joined the Practice in 2009 and is currently undertaking her CPA studies to further her knowledge of accounting. With 2 years of company accounting experience, Beatie is looking forward to providing our clients with professional service.
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Pauline Wakefield - ACA, CPA
Accountant
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Hedi Yurishich
Accountant

Hedi started with the Practice in September 2006 as a Tax & Business Services Accountant.
Hedi brings over twenty years of accounting experience to us and is keen to expand her knowledge and further her studies to enhance her accounting career.
Hedi enjoys walking on the beach, socialising and dancing.
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Eve Kent - MBA
Business Development Manager

Eve joined the practice in June 1999. Eve has completed an MBA at Edith Cowan University to increase her knowledge and skills to benefit the practice.
Eve oversees the smooth running of the practice and is responsible for management & business development as well as HR recruiting and training of team members.
Eve is married with a son and enjoys going to the gym, camping and walking her dogs at the beach in her spare time.
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Anne Abbott
Accounts Manager

Anne has worked with Abbotts for many years managing the businesses accounts. Anne is responsible for account administration, and assists the admin team with other ongoing tasks as required.
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Eunice Lau
Practice Administrator

Eunice joined our practise in June 2010. She has completed her Bachelor of Commerce degree at Curtin University and is currently undertaking her CPA studies to further knowledge of accounting.
Eunice enjoys going to the gym and taekwondo training.
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Kevin Thomson
Computer & IT Administrator

Kevin joined the practice in September 08 and oversees the running and general maintenance of our computer system.
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Louise Sheridan
Corporate Secretary

Louise joined the practice as our filing assistant and has grown her career into a role as our Corporate Secretary. Louise attends to the ongoing Corporate Secretarial needs of over 400 companies, together with company incorporations and data base management.
Louise is married with two children and enjoys going to the beach, the gym, shopping, reading in her spare time and attending sport activities with her boys.
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Chris Cavilli
Admin Assistant

Chris is our Admin Assistant and assists the Partners and staff in collection of records, filing and other administrative tasks as required.
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Nicole Rojas
Admin Assistant

Nicole is our Admin Assistant and assists the Partners and staff in collection of records, filing and other administrative tasks as required.
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Ben Dreyer
Receptionist

Ben is our Receptionist and is your first point of contact with our practice.Ben's friendly nature and professionalism in dealing with your enquiries and referring you onto our partners or other staff makes him an extremely important part of our practices efficiency.
His other tasks include, mail, word processing, data entry, banking, and assisting the Partners, Accounting and Support Staff.
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