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Congratulations Gavin & Vivian Enjoy your retirement Well deserved

GAVIN’S TIMELINE: (Opp. page) Gavin at his desk & ready for action on the speedway track and (below) Gavin dressed for success during his two years in the Solomon Islands and his trusted team in the early days of Gavin J. McEachern & Associates

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Congratulations Gavin & Vivian McEachern We have had a great association for nearly 40 years

Enjoy your retirement

The relationships built over that time is Gavin’s most enduring memory and many long standing clients are now treasured friends and will not be lost to Gavin and Vivian moving forward.

“Being an accountant is a very personal thing,” Gavin said. “You are there for people’s ups and downs – you see them at their best and you go through the worst, like divorce and death. It is not just crunching the numbers and to run a successful practice you need to understand that.”

You also need to understand commercial law, tax law and then take all that knowledge and merge it with the wants and needs of your clients.

“...you are there for people’s ups and downs – you see them at their best and you go through the worst...it is not just crunching the numbers and to run a successful practice you need to understand that...” Gavin McEachern

THE NEXT CHAPTER

Gavin McEachern has left his legacy in more than capable hands and clients have been, and will continue, to experience business as usual wiith managing partners Amber Dowdy and Nigel Adams at the helm.

Amber Dowdy

Qualified CPA accountant who holds a practising certificate. Amber has been part of the practice for 18 years.

Nigel Adams

Qualified CPA accountant who holds a practising certificate. Nigel has been part of the practice for 10 years.

Gavin J. McEachern & Associates offer a wide range of Accounting and Taxation services including:

• Preparation and lodgement of income tax returns for all entities and individuals • Superannuation Fund administration/ accounting • Business Activity Statements preparation and lodgement • Payroll services/ Workcover/ Payroll Tax • Business set-up, planning and Cash Flow Budgets • Business consultancy/ Estate planning/Retirement

“I wasn’t overly smart at school but I got through and I think what helped me in business is I was an average Joe and I wasn’t a city slicker, I had come off a farm and was able to relate to a wide range of people,” Gavin said.

Primary producers, the timber and transport industry formed a fair percentage of his business.

“I think I could just talk to them and not down to them and that’s rally what got us through,” Gavin said. “It was all about being down to earth.”

Gavin did receive the inevitable offers from metro-based firms but he was determined to keep his practice proudly local.

The move to its current Bay Road site was a huge leap of faith that has paid off in spades.

“It just made sense, it was central and a prominent location and the building had been on the market for so long that I also got a good price,” Gavin said. “We made it light and fresh inside – we wanted it to be somewhere people wanted to come.”

As Gavin looks back at his career the introduction of the GST in 2000 stands out as one of the key landmarks that changed the industry forever.

“All of a sudden, people we might have seen once a year, we were seeing them three, four, five times a year,” he said.

But regardless of the challenges, Gavin wouldn’t change a thing.

“I really did enjoy every minute,“ he said. “Hopefully we have contributed to quite a lot of successful businesses in the region. We have clients that have been with us basically forever and we end up seeing their kids and their kids’ kids. It’s just another example of how important building those personally relationships is. Hopefully I have left a mark somewhere.””

And Gavin has left a mark, not just on the business community but the community at large.

He has a long standing, close association with the Borderline Speedway and the Glencoe Football Club and had his time with Rotary as well.

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