About Us

Husband & wife team Kathy & Tony Swadling have been servicing businesses in the Cheltenham and Bayside Melbourne area for over 10 years.

Having grown up in Mentone and tapping into nearly 30 years of small and medium business experience, along with our dedicated team of accountants and business service experts, we are excited to help businesses grow. No business is too small, and we have helped clients at all cycles of their business journey from start up to wind up as well as into retirement. Our clients individual tax returns can be a simple tax return or a family group, including your self managed superfund, we can assist all your accounting needs.

Kathy Swadling

After watching her father Arthur Griffiths look after a range of accounting clients from their home in Mentone, Kathy went on to study at Monash Caulfield. She then worked for her older brother Leo Griffiths in his practice Griffiths Gorman located first in South Melbourne and then in its current location in Cheltenham, where she first got to work with some of the clients which she still assists today.
Kathy completed her CPA, and after working at a collection of other accounting firms and commencing her own practice in 2006, she has returned to the Griffiths fold allowing Leo to retire.
Kathy’s experience includes assisting and auditing Self-Managed Superannuation Funds, where she is both a registered Self-Managed Superannuation Auditor and an advisor under the SMSF Advisors Network Pty Ltd offering SMSF financial advice.
Kathy has worked with many small to medium industries including businesses within Property, Building Industry, Medical, Manufacturers, Hospitality, Transport and Software developers.
Kathy currently serves on three local to Cheltenham community volunteer boards where she enjoys the opportunity to help the community spirit continue to grow.
Kathy, along side her husband Tony, enjoy watching their 4 boys grow into adults. They enjoy traveling and camping with the boys, embracing the opportunity to expand their children’s experiences. Living close to Cheltenham, Kathy loves the area enjoying the bay and community.

Tony Swadling

Tony managed to merge his love of aeroplanes with engineering, starting his career as an aircraft maintenance engineer in 1993. After working with Ansett and Qantas on their domestic jet aircraft, he qualified as a Licenced engineer on a number of aircraft types. After a 20 year career working for or contracting to all of the major Australian airlines, he finished as an aircraft maintenance project manager when the opportunity came to work with Kathy in their own accounting business.
He has retrained and qualified as an accountant. Tony enjoys working with clients, and his specialties include accounting, book keeping, corporate affairs and managing the business.
Outside of the office, Tony sails on the family trailable yacht, as well as cooking and chasing after their 4 kids to sporting events, music and school.