Firm Profile

We are committed to forming close partnerships with our clients, enabling us to understand your unique situation and customise the assistance we provide to suit your requirements. Our commitment to excellence is evident in our hardworking team and our enthusiasm for our work means you get a friendly team of professionals eager to use their expertise to help you succeed.

Paul Hamilton

Paul joined the firm of Northwood and Barton in 1990 after 11 years as a finance accountant and IT specialist with Kimberley-Clark Australia Pty Ltd and prior to that as a company auditor. Paul has a keen interest in agriculture and the fishing industry and, in particular, ensuring that the valuable assets contained within these businesses are protected and passed to the next generation with minimum fuss and taxation consequences.

John McLoughlin

Born and raised in Millicent John has had experience in the car industry and has operated a small business in the sport/entertainment sector. John was also an employee at the Kimberley-Clark Aust Pty Ltd's Millicent Mill. He began public accounting with Northwood & Barton in 1990. As a third generation accountant, John is particularly interested in wealth accumulation for families through investment in share portfolios and real estate and provides advice to a number of small business clients from start-up to succession planning.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Business (Acctg), Deakin University (1994)
• Fellow, Institute of Public Accountants (FIPA)
• Fellow, Taxation Institute of Australia (CTA)
• Senior Associate, Financial Services Institute of Australia

Bronwyn Turner

Bronwyn's family are directly involved in agriculture & horticulture and she has a sound understanding of the challenges facing farming families and of those of small business in the community and region and applies this in her role as a professional tax consultant. Bronwyn is involved in the Self Managed Superannuation side of our business where we assist clients in administering of their own retirement funds. Self managed superannuation funds (SMSF) are an essential tool in assisting our clients to further develop their wealth & provide their families with a wide range of business integration, succession, retirement and estate planning strategies.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor of Accountancy (university of SA) (1997)
• Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) (2001)
• Fellow, Taxation Institute of Australia (CTA) (2006)
• Public Practice Certificate (2003)
• Tax minimization for businesses including Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax and Goods and Services Tax
• Preparation of budgets and cashflow forecasting
• Establishment and maintenance of self managed superannuation funds
• Strategic business planning and advice on business structures such as companies, trust and partnerships

Steve Duldig

Steve joined the firm in 2001 as a trainee accountant and during this time completed a Bachelor of Commerce, graduating from Deakin University in 2007. Since then he has undertaken further studies to gain CPA qualifications, and has recently branched out into the area of financial planning. His qualifications and areas of experience are:

• Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm), majoring in Accounting and Financial Planning, Deakin University (2007)
• Member of Certified Practising Accountants (CPA) (2010)
• Authorised Representative of Count Financial Limited (2009)
• Income tax planning advice
• BAS preparation & GST advice
• Small business advice and support
• Software consultancy
• Retirement planning
• Superannuation and investment
• Wealth protection
• Share trading

Ange Sinel

Ange was born and raised in Millicent, she currently lives in the township with her 2 children Maya and Mitchell. Ange joined the Hamilton Hateley & Associates in Nov 2011, after 11 years of service for Gary Lafferty & Murray Nankivell in the local area. Prior to commencing her Bachelor's Degree Ange worked for Westpac Banking Corporation which allowed her to travel across the state working in different branches and roles. In 2000 Ange left the banking world and commenced bookkeeping for a variety of local businesses. She began working for Gary Lafferty Accounting in 2001 and has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in the fields of Taxation, GST, Business advice, Capital Gains Tax etc. Ange can also assist clients with their computer software needs, business structure, creating wealth and retirement planning. Since graduating from Deakin University, Ange has been interested in Financial Planning and hopes to help Steve build and grow this sector of the business. Her qualifications and areas of experience are:

• Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm), majoring in Accounting and Financial Planning, Deakin University (2010)
• Member, Taxation Institute of Australia (2009)
• Authorised Representative of Count Financial Limited (2012)
• Income tax planning advice
• Tax minimization for business
• BAS preparation and GST Advice
• Small business advice and support
• Software consultancy
• Retirement planning
• Superannuation and investment
• Wealth protection
• Share trading

Cameron Slape

Cameron was born and raised on a farm on the outskirts of Millicent. Cameron joined the Hamilton Hateley & Associates in Nov 2011 for his gap year, before heading to Adelaide to study at university. He worked at the office during the holidays, before returning full time in 2016. He gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in the fields of Taxation, GST, Business advice, Capital Gains Tax etc. Cameron can also assist clients with their computer software needs. His qualifications and areas of experience are:

• Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Adelaide (2016)

The Support Staff

Supporting our professional accountants are 6 highly trained and skilled staff who perform the background tasks such as lodgement of tax returns, client bookkeeping and wage processing and massaging client records into financial reports. The frontline staff are Maryanne Clifford and Mandy MacFarlane. They provide the friendly face and voice of our business as they welcome clients, direct your enquiries to an appropriate professional and make the appointments.

The backroom support consists of Victoria Lucas (BAS preparation and tax lodgement), Heather Douglas (bookkeeping, BAS preparation and tax lodgement) and Caroline Schulz (tax returns, bookkeeping, BAS preparation, data entry).