Business Specialists - About us

Our focus is on making sure we do all we can to ensure our clients are as successful as they can be.

We like to think we are different from other accountants, by being your business partner. This means delivering a complete financial solution that proactively considers tax, superannuation, business, wealth creation and retirement. We utilise our network of referral partners, so you won’t need to go anywhere else.

We have an all encompassing approach to managing your financial needs. We provide our clients with a number of solutions to help improve their business performance and make it as successful as possible. This is our passion.

Our Objective

Our objective is to provide specialised services in a clearly communicated, cost efficient and timely manner.

We pride ourselves on our reputation for integrity, honesty and commitment in offering high quality services to all clients. This is done through the development of mutually satisfying relationships, highly skilled and motivated team and through efficient service delivery.

Our Team

We are a team of professional and experienced advisors who understand business and the demands that businesses bring.

Our team is lead by four Directors and an enthusiastic team who are dedicated to understanding your business, your circumstances and YOU. Our blend of diagnostic, personal and practical skills makes our team unique in every sense.

Our Partners and Senior Team:

John Dorazio FCA

Managing Director

John is the Managing Director of Walker Wayland WA and heads up our Audit and Assurance division. He joined WW in February 2002, became a Partner in July 2011 and became Managing Director in July 2017.

John is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, a registered Company Auditor, a registered Self-managed Superannuation Fund Auditor, a Fellow of the Tax Institute and a Category 2 Greenhouse and Energy Auditor. He was Chairman of Board for Walker Wayland Australasia between 2014 and 2016.

John’s experience and skills include providing audit and consultancy services to entities in a range of industries. He has a keen interest in transport businesses, franchises, health industries, sporting organisations and is always willing to meet with business owners or organisations that need help improving systems and performance. John also provides support to mergers and acquisitions with experience in purchaser due diligence, vendor due diligence and contract support.

Iggy Moro FCA CTA DipFP (FS)

Director

Iggy is a Director of the company and has worked in public practice since 1992. Over the years he has helped many clients achieve their business, financial and personal goals with clients ranging from small individual tax clients, property and share investors, start up businesses and multi-national businesses. He advises on all structures – sole trader, partnerships, trusts, companies and self managed superannuation funds. His goal is to assist his clients achieve the best they can in business and personally. One way to ensure this is by the use of digital technology and analysis of data in an efficient and productive manner.

The type of advisory work Iggy has assisted his clients with includes purchase and sale of businesses, business structuring and planning, retirement planning, assisting with cash flow projections, property development, construction, trades and professionals.

Iggy is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ), a CA SMSF Specialist and holds an Advanced Diploma of Financial Planning.

Richard Gregson CA

Director

Richard is a director in our Audit and Advisory practice.

Richard has over 30 years of professional and commercial experience, much of that spent with PwC working in Australia and abroad. Prior to leaving PwC to return to Australia, Richard was a senior partner in their Moscow office where he led the Financial Services Audit and Assurance practice and was also the Real Estate Leader for the Russian firm.

Richard has audited, advised, and worked with a broad range of organisations including: commercial & investment banks, asset managers, broker dealers, leasing companies, insurance companies, property investors and developers, construction companies, miners, telecommunications enterprises and technology companies, sporting associations, Aboriginal Corporations and businesses, pastoral companies, aged care, manufacturing and trading enterprises.

Richard’s key areas of experience include:

Financial statement audits
Financial due diligence and agreed upon procedures
Regulatory examinations
Large scale technical assistance projects
Financial statement preparation and CFO services
Governance advice

In more recent years, Richard has served as a board director/ committee member on a number of boards, both private and public. These include large property development and investment holdings, pastoral interests, Aboriginal Corporations, trading enterprises, sporting associations and not-for-profit enterprises. These experiences, together with decades advising boards and committees, give Richard a deep insight into best practices of corporate governance and broad commercial knowledge.

Richard has significant experience in advising Aboriginal businesses and in serving on the boards and committees of such enterprises. In carrying out this work Richard has travelled extensively through-out the North West region of Western Australia. Beyond advising Aboriginal boards and committees, Richard is accredited to conduct regulatory examinations on behalf of the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, and is regularly engaged to do so.

Richard holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia, is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand and is a Registered Company Auditor.

Ariane Szabo CA

Accountant

Ariane joined Walker Wayland in 2015.

Ariane has over five and a half years’ experience and assists our clients in taxation, compliance, GST, business advisory, and business improvements.

She graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in Accounting and Accounting Technologies), and became a Chartered Accountant (CA) in 2014.

William Cosson FCA

Consultant

William has been in private practice for 30 years specialising in audit and consultancy assignments and income taxation.

William qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC Perth and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand. He is a registered Local Government Auditor and a registered Co-operative Company Auditor registered under the Companies (Co-operative) Act 1943.

William has had extensive experience as a Chartered Accountant in most sectors and in particular, the following:

Not for profit organisations associated with health and the aged
Real estate agents and shopping centre variable outgoings
Associations connect with sport especially boating and golf clubs
Supermarkets
Aboriginal affairs

William’s experience and skills in the mining and real estate sectors have taken him from the boardrooms of Perth to the vast outback of Western Australia.

William has provided advice and produced special reports to various Government departments and has acted as an expert witness on behalf of the Real Estate Institute of WA.

Some of his achievements include being a quality control practice reviewer of accounting practices for Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and serving on the disciplinary committee for CPA Australia, Western Australia division.

Our focus and mission

Our mission is to make you happy in business and in life.

We work closely with you to help clarify and measure your goals.

We have a team that is able to identify and assess your full range of financial requirements and organise the resources to help you meet those needs.

As a complete financial services firm, we are able to draw upon our accounting and tax, audit, superannuation and financial planning divisions to develop an all-inclusive plan for the formation, accumulation, protection and transfer of your wealth.

Membership & Accreditations

Walker Wayland Australasia

Partnering clients with local expertise and global knowledge, Walker Wayland Australasia Limited is an association of independent professional firms located throughout Australia and New Zealand.

With ten member firms in Australia, three in New Zealand and three boutique firms, Walker Wayland Australasia Limited is uniquely equipped to deliver a range of services that are relevant to Australian, New Zealand and Trans-Tasman business today. As members of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), our Australian and New Zealand firms offer clients a creative and practical service by combining technical knowledge, depth of experience and professional understanding. Further, as our specialist staff can draw on an international network of expertise, we offer many advantages in dealing with local or global conditions. Each of our firms is proud of a long tradition of highly personal client service. You can be assured that the partners and team members of our network firms will always give you individual attention and take a genuine interest in your success. As business owners and operators themselves they, like us, understand your needs. For more information on Walker Wayland Australasia Limited.

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