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COMPANY GOALS

The staff at Tax & Accounting Professionals are qualified in accounting, commerce, business and I.T. and include Professional Accountants, Tax Agent, Trained Book Keepers, Accounting system Trainers, and Administrative staff trained in corporate and regulatory affairs.

Our success over the past 9 years not only relies on these professionals, but also due to the fact we hire individuals who help to build relationships with our clients in very special ways.


THE TEAM

At Tax & Accounting Professionals

Mohammed Taiyab
Principal/Accountant/Tax Agent/J.P.

Mohammed Taiyab is a qualified public accountant and the owner of Tax & Accounting Professionals. He has a Bachelors Degree in Business Accounting and a Masters Degree in Taxation from Monash Univeristy, Melbourne.

Mohammed Taiyab started the firm in 2001 and has since been providing a comprehensive range of cost- effective services to businesses from not only the Dandenong area, but even as far away as Queensland.

He started his career in 1990 as a Senior Accountant in Public Practice with a chartered accountant firm in Melbourne. In 2000, Mohammed left the firm to start his own Public Accounting practice as Tax & Accounting Professionals in Dandenong, Victoria. Since then he has been providing a comprehensive range of cost-effective services to business and individual clients.

He has developed a unique and pro-active approach towards problem solving and management of small scale businesses. He also has extensive experience having served as a board of member for several businesses and community organisations. He has served in the Auditing committee of Manningham City Council in Doncaster Victoria and has been honorary auditor of a number of non-profit organisations.

Mohammed is actively involved in community service, especially fund raising for the poor and needy. He is an active member of the "Fellow of Institute of Public Accountants" and the "Institute of chartered secretaries & administrators". He has also been conferred "The Justice of Peace" by the Victorian Judiciary Department for his outstanding services to various communities. He has also been awarded Victorian Governments Community award and International Volunteer Award by the Prime Minister of Australia for his services on the International scene.


Phillip Wong
Business Services & Training

Phillip has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Science and a post-graduate degree in Financial Services. He assists Mohammed with client services, accounting and training with accounting software such as MYOB, Quickbooks and Xero. Phillip also helps Tax & Accounting Professionals clients design their financial accounting systems most efficiently.


Arzoo
Office Manager

Arzoo is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of Tax & Accounting Professionals with the Principal Accountant.
She is responsible for:

Arzoo has a Diploma in Computer Studies from Fiji, has studied Business Administration at Chisholm Institute in Melbourne, and was recently registered as a BAS Agent. She also liaises with the major taxation and regulatory bodies like ASIC and ATO and manages online lodgement programs for BAS and ASIC statutory returns. She is responsible for client relationship management and attends to all client correspondence and follows them up with the required action if necessary. In addition to all this, Arzoo also manages the Human Resources part of Tax & Accounting Professionals.


Daisy Hu
Graduate Accounting Trainee

Daisy joined our firm as an accounting trainee on a voluntary basis and now she is a graduate in Bachelor of Business and Commerce from Monash University majoring in Accounting. She is now a staff member of Tax & Accounting Professionals and works as an assistant accountant. She is responsible for the preparation of Business activity statements for clients, preparation of financial statements using MYOB accounting program and liaises with all regulatory bodies and clients.


Najia Popal
Administrative trainee

Najia is a part-time administrative trainee with our firm and studying full time at Monash University pursuing Bachelor of Accounting.


Various Personnel
Work Placement Trainees/Mentoring Program Graduates

From time to time Tax & Accounting Professionals take in trainees from Schools, TAFEs and Universities. The office provides a great experience to these trainees and equips them with the appropriate knowledge and skills to be able to work in large scale firms and organisations nation wide.
Working close to the Principal and other staff members, trainees observe work place practices and ethics to implement them into their own work.

Many trainees have left the office and have acquired successful jobs in large firms not only in Melbourne but as far as Brisbane, while other trainees have returned back to their respective institute of education, using their experience at Tax & Accounting Professionals as part of their assessment work.
It is sad to see them go, but knowing that they as individuals are growing and creating a brighter future makes it all worthwhile.

The firm strongly believes that training today's generation is a positive step towards creating a brighter tomorrow and that's what we aim to do; create a better tomorrow.