We’ve been doing this for a while
Our team has over 140 years combined experience assisting clients with their bookkeeping and accounting needs
Tony Birch
Head of Cairns client services
Tony is a Chartered Accountant with over 40 years’ experience in the profession. He commenced practice in Cairns in 1998, as ALH Birch Chartered Accountant, and through his former firm of DFK Kidsons in Cairns -until 2010.
Now as head Birch Books and BAS, he leads the team providing professional services to small to medium sized enterprises. He continues to provide consulting services under the ALH Birch banner to larger firms requiring specialist assistance in management advisory services.
He was for the 2 years prior to coming to Australia in 1998, managing and audit partner of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Vietnam, and for 8 years prior Tony specialised as a partner in the Recovery and Insolvency Division, and also in giving business service advice to some 300 small to medium businesses in Papua New Guinea through Kidsons DFK (Papua New Guinea) which became the largest professional firm in PNG and was purchased by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (PNG) in1994.
Tony is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (1995), a fellow of CPA Papua New Guinea (1988), fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (1980), a former member of CPA Australia (retired in Dec 2010), and former member of the Association of Fraud Examiners (retired 2010). Tony holds a post graduate certificate in Forensic Studies (Accounting) from Monash University (2006). He is qualified and registered as a BAS agent.
Over 40 years experience as a professional accountant and business consultant
Matthew Facey
Head of Gold Coast client services
As a highly qualified accountant for over thirty years specialising in bookkeeping, financial and management accounting, finance and capital markets, corporate governance, business restructuring, human resources, audit and taxation, Matthew has conducted successful assignments for public and private sector clients in Australia, Cambodia, Canada, Hong Kong, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea and Vietnam. He is now permanently based at the Gold Coast.
Matthew holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics (University of Sydney) and has qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Australia and as a CPA in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam. He is a Xero Certified Advisor and a Certified Quickbooks Online ProAdvisor. He is also a qualified trainer with a Cert IV in Training & Assessment.
Matthew has worked at senior management and Partner level at three of the global accounting / consulting firms. He currently sits on the Board of Directors and is a member of the Corporate Governance committee of a public listed company.
A professional accountant and business advisor since 1981
Gill Birch
Head of Atherton client services
Gill is an experienced accountant having worked in the profession since 1989. She prepares financial statements from source records and is competent in the use of MYOB, Quickbooks, and other online accounting systems.
She has been a lecturer in International Accounting methodology, a manager of a 200 plus client portfolio in a professional office and an auditor and examiner.
She specialises in the creation of organisational efficiency by the introduction and management of accounting records and supporting documents, leading to the preparation of accurate management reports, BAS and tax schedules and analysis of the results, to keep you better informed about your business.
Gill is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors.
An accounting and bookkeeping professional since 1989
Roley Sykes
Head of Sunshine Coast client services
Even for the accountancy profession, Roley Sykes is a little unusual.
He has dual qualifications with two international institutes, Chartered Accountant of Australia and New Zealand and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the UK.
He has worked for organisations located in seven countries with different cultures and expectations including the UK, Australia, the USA and South East Asia. He recently returned from a Pro Bono six month assignment working for an NGO in Cambodia. He has prepared Financial Statements under IFRS and US GAAP as well as under Australian Accounting Standards.
Roley has worked for organisations ranging in size from large multi-national companies to one man bands. The organisations he has worked with operated in many industries including Retailing, IT, Legal, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Petroleum, Not for Profit, and International NGOs.
Roley has worked with spreadsheets since the start, creating his first commercial model using DOS and Lotus 123 in 1989. He is an expert in understanding what reporting is required to assist the business achieve its objectives and in creating these reports using excel worksheets.
Roley specialises in:
- Identifying what is required for a particular business and when it is needed for it to be effective;
- Reviewing processes to identify the minimum time required to produce it;
- Reviewing the people and systems so as to identify when the reports could be produced in practice; and
- Writing tailored reports for a business to suit its particular needs using data extracted from the accounting system.
Over 40 years experience in business and accountancy
