About Us

McGrath & Associates Quality Accountants (formerly known as Gerard McGrath Quality Accounting) – located halfway between the Coffs Harbour CBD and Jetty area – is a small family business that has been servicing clients on the Coffs Coast and around Australia since 1988.

Our Senior Partner is Gerard McGrath, who is a FCPA, while his daughter Kylie McGrath, who is a CPA, has been involved in the practice since 1999 and is also a Partner of the firm.

Our team consist of the following members:

• Gerard McGrath FCPA – Senior Partner
• Kylie McGrath CPA – Partner
• Craig Bulloch – Accountant
• Brian Schneider – Accountant
• Bridgette Paunovic – Accountant
• Jessica Hawken – Office Manager
• Leonie Rowlings – Administration Support

McGrath & Associates offers all accounting and business services for our clients, from individual tax returns to professional services to small sole traders, partnerships, trust, companies and superfunds.

Our philosophy focuses on personal attention

Our commitment to our clients is to be a certified public accounting firm that strives to deliver passionate, progressive and knowledgeable services of uncompromising value. This extends to the commitment to personal attention.

We develop an intimate knowledge of our clients, their industry groups, accounting needs, and business and tax issues. We have a personal relationship with all our clients, offering meaningful value-added services.

Service excellence is one of our main goals

At McGrath & Associates, our primary goals revolve around our clients and include the following:

• Provide excellent personal service to our clients in all areas of accounting;
• Assure excellence in client service through maintaining the highest level of competence, independence and integrity;
• Provide opportunities for employees with the firm for personal and professional advancement, growth in skills and rewarding work experiences.

Our objectives & growth expectations

McGrath & Associates Quality Accountants’ objective is to provide quality accounting, auditing tax and management consulting services to our existing small to medium size clients. To this end we expect to limit our practice to those clients whom we can serve properly. Our main goal is to service our existing clients to the best of our ability.

We expect our growth to continue to be internal and to be limited mainly to our present geographic area, a community our practice has been serving since 1972. We hope to retain our local identity and personal relationship with our clients, who are the foundation of our practice.

We strive to be a firm for which it is enjoyable and rewarding to work. We intend to continue our involvement in and contribution to community and professional activities and organisations.

• Read more about the way we work and the services we provide on our Services page.