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Our New National Alliance
We're proud to announce our new national alliance.
Lawler Partners and Draper Dillon are proud to announce a national alliance of like minded independent chartered accounting firms focused on superior quality client service. Through this shared vision and depth of resources, we can offer greater benefits to our clients and greater opportunities for our people.
Federal Budget 2009
The Treasurer handed down his second budget on 12th May 2009 "Nation Building for the Recovery". A budget focussed on "investing in infrastructure, supporting jobs and productivity and positioning for the recovery".
Read MoreAdding to Our Audit Focus
We welcome Steven Bradby to Lawler Draper Dillon. He has joined the firm as an Audit Partner, enabling us to give broader focus to the delivery of Audit and Assurance services.
Steven has built his experience from over 25 years in the Assurance and Advisory Business Services Division of Ernst & Young, where as an Executive Director he provided assurance services and business advice to a range of small proprietary through larger publicly listed and multinational clients, and government business entities. Those clients operated across various industry and service sectors.
In his role as client service executive Steven is responsible for the coordinated delivery of assurance and related services, for ownership of the audit strategy, and execution of the plan in accordance with our methodology.
Appointment Of General Manager
Jacqueline Tan was appointed as Lawler Draper Dillon's General Manager in November 2008 and comes to us with over 16 years of experience in accounting practices.
Jacqueline began her career at Wise Lord & Ferguson in Hobart, a Business Services graduate working on a range of clients with compliance requirements. During this time she was also involved with developing special valuation assignments for new business projects in conjunction with the Tasmanian Development Authority.
Moving to Melbourne to pursue a different client experience in 1996, Jacqueline joined PKF's Business Services Division. In addition to compliance clients, Jacqueline developed training and reporting programs unique to the division's requirements.
In late 2000 Jacqueline was appointed as Admin. & Finance Manager at PKF, supporting the General Manager and the Partners of the practice with finance reporting, statutory requirements and development of responsive information catering to the unique needs of each division.
Over the following eight years her experiences included optimised utilisation of the practice management system, development of a more streamlined finance reporting system, more productive interaction between the Admin team and the rest of the practice, development of environmental and human resource policies including flexible working practices and culminated in a successful office move in 2007.
At Lawler Draper Dillon, Jacqueline will be responsible for the overall operations of the business enabling the partners and professional staff to concentrate on servicing and growing the client base.
Jacqueline is an avid Hawthorn supporter, enjoys a good glass of wine from time to time, and is looking forward to an exciting new work experience with Lawler Draper Dillon.
