HFB story
When HFB first opened its doors, our accountants were trusted advisors who knew everything about business.
Fast-forward 50 years and thousands of pages of business regulations, and HFB is still your expert advisor—but now we’re providing the balanced expertise that today’s businesses need through our specialist teams.
From private wealth to HR, HFB delivers top-tier thinking and experience that’s appropriately tailored for SMEs and focused entirely on your success.
HFB story
When HFB first opened its doors, our accountants were trusted advisors who knew everything about business.
Fast-forward 50 years and thousands of pages of business regulations, and HFB is still your expert advisor—but now we’re providing the balanced expertise that today’s businesses need through our specialist teams.
From private wealth to HR, HFB delivers top-tier thinking and experience that’s appropriately tailored for SMEs and focused entirely on your success.
Meet our leaders
of change
First friends, then colleagues, and now HFB’s owners for the past decade, Shona and Tim are leading transformation in the accounting industry.
How are they achieving it? By always being friendly and approachable—and always passionately focused on making business, dreams, growth and success happen for every client.
Meet our leaders of change
First friends, then colleagues, and now HFB’s owners for the past decade, Shona and Tim are leading transformation in the accounting industry.
How are they achieving it? By always being friendly and approachable—and always passionately focused on making business, dreams, growth and success happen for every client.
Our services
Accounting
We provide exceptional accounting services to our clients. Whether our clients are a newly minted SME, fast-growth start-up or a third-generation family business, we go far beyond compliance to deliver quality, thoughtful business strategy and advice.
Super
With a deep understanding of the often-complex world of SMSFs, our specialist experts are here to guide you through the rules and regulations when making investment and other decisions, whilst also taking care of the ongoing compliance and reporting requirements of your super fund.
Tax
advisory
We provide strategic tax advisory services to help businesses make informed decisions and achieve their goals with confidence. From tax planning and business structures to capital gains tax and complex transactions, our experienced advisers deliver practical, proactive advice to support long-term success.
Bookkeeping
Outsource your business bookkeeping to our Xero experts for fast and accurate management of your accounts payable, payroll, reconciliations and reporting. We can also provide Xero set-up and training to upskill your internal team.
Partners Powering HFB
Marketing
Most marketing is tactical. It needs to be strategic. Through our partner, MSQ, we’re offering the chance to look at your marketing through a strategic lens and make sure your marketing dollars are delivering true ROI.
HR
Harrisons delivers HR consulting, contracting and outsourcing to help CEOs to build highly productive and enjoyable places to work. From leadership to recruitment and performance management, we provide a complete HR solution to manage and motivate your employees.
Business advisory
Keystone Executive Coaching is a business advisory and coaching service focused on helping Australian SMEs scale, exit, and achieve lasting profitability. Keystone operates on a unique deferred-fee, pay-on-results model, where most of the coaching fee is only payable when agreed financial targets are achieved.
IT
At Bitflo, we merge high-level expertise with a down-to-earth approach. Envision us as your friendly tech experts, simplifying the intricate so you can focus on your business.
We’re here to simplify technology, making it approachable and thus empowering and progressing you and your business.
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