Tax Agent · Practice

Linda McGowan Pty Ltd

Preston, Victoria

TPB registration: 24837593
Register status: Registered
Registered since: October 2014
Business address: Unit 1 Ground Floor 12 Cramer Street PRESTON Victoria 3072 Australia
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About

In the practice's own words, from its website

Linda McGowan ventured out as a sole practitioner in 1991 and commenced operations in Preston, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. The practice she built there now works with a staff of six professionals, and describes itself as a suburban Melbourne accounting firm offering all the usual accounting and tax compliance services — with the services beyond compliance as the part it says distinguishes it.

Its position is stated on the home page and repeated across the pages that describe the practice: most suburban accounting firms treat the tax return as the end of the client process, and this one treats it as the beginning. Over the years the practice developed and refined a four-step process it calls The Business Accelerator Program — the foundations, compare and repair, growth phase, plan and protect — and its quarterly client newsletter carries the same name.

Alongside that it developed a set of industry niches: the trades, business start-ups, hospitality, negative gearing, musicians and artists, and self-managed superannuation funds. Marketing is a stated point of difference from other accounting firms, and it extends to branding, lead-generation websites, digital publishing, search engine optimisation and social media. Linda McGowan is the Principal, a member of CPA Australia and a registered tax agent, and the practice publishes her profile alone.

Linda McGowan commenced as a sole practitioner in Preston in 1991
A staff of six professionals
The Business Accelerator Program — four steps, developed in-house
Industry niches: trades, start-ups, hospitality, musicians, SMSFs, property

Services

Accounting, Taxation & GST
The compliance work the practice describes as the usual services: accounting, taxation and GST, individual returns, tax planning, tax audit insurance and bookkeeping.
Business advice
Business coaching, planning, structures and management consulting, with benchmarking used to compare a business against its competitors.
Marketing
Marketing is one of the practice's stated points of difference from other accounting firms, covering branding, lead-generation websites, digital publishing, search engine optimisation and social media.
Wealth & finance
The fourth step of the practice's own programme: protecting what a business has built, from personal tax returns through to financial planning and risk insurances.
Buying, selling & succession
Buying a business and planning the exit from one — the practice describes working with owners through the stages of the business life cycle, from start-up to sale and succession.
Cloud accounting
The practice publishes pages for cloud accounting and for Xero, and says one of its first tasks is making sure a business is using the right accounting software for its needs.

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Source: Tax Practitioners Board, TPB Public Register (data.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.