The firm
This site is run by Vital Money Pty Ltd (ABN 54 668 172 718), from Maylands,
South Australia. We work with corporations across Australia, including remote
communities — most of this work is done by video and cloud accounting.
Vital Money and Vital Consult are two arms of the same practice:
Vital Consult is the CFO and advisory arm and
Vital Money is the registered tax agent arm. When your corporation
engages us for reporting and for board support, that is one firm, not two.
You can see the wider practice at vitalconsult.com.au.
The people
Compliance guidance written by nobody in particular is not worth relying on. Every
guide on this site carries a named author.
The credentials below are held with the professional bodies named, and you can confirm them directly with those bodies.
Alison Vidal
Founder & Principal Advisor
MIPA, MPA, MBA, GAICD · Registered Public Accountant
Alison is a Registered Public Accountant (MIPA) and Founder of Vital Consult, with expertise across finance, strategy, governance, operations and organisational transformation. She holds a Master of Professional Accounting, an MBA and the GAICD, and is highly skilled in financial and operational business recovery. She has a strong background supporting Indigenous organisations, not-for-profits, SMEs and regional enterprises — strengthening governance, building operational capability, and guiding organisations through growth, transition and recovery.
Works on: Governance, financial and operational recovery, and board capability for Indigenous organisations, not-for-profits and regional enterprises
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Juen Phie
Director, Vital Money Pty Ltd
Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ) · Registered Tax Agent
Works on: Taxation, business advisory, not-for-profit and NFP-adjacent structuring
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Our experience with Indigenous corporations
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This section describes the sectors we work in, the rough scale of corporations we
work with, and the kinds of engagement we take on. It is the strongest trust signal
on the site and it has to come from the partners — it cannot be written from
anything published elsewhere.
It will never name a corporation or an ICN: client work is confidential, and
examples on this site are de-identified by construction.
Accountant or auditor — never both
We do both kinds of work, and never for the same corporation. An accountant cannot
give an independent opinion on their own work; independence is required under
subdivision 339-D of the CATSI Act. So each corporation gets one role from us, and
the choice is yours.
If we are your accountant, we prepare the financial report and work alongside whoever
you appoint to audit it — including handling their queries, which is usually
where boards lose the most time.
If we are your auditor, we audit corporations we do not otherwise
act for, and only below the $5 million tier. Large corporations, and any corporation
with income of $5 million or more, need a registered company auditor or an authorised
audit company. We are neither, and we will tell you so rather than take the work.
Our relationship to ORIC
None, and we want to be straightforward about that, because the name of this website
invites the question.
ORIC — the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations — is the
Commonwealth regulator. It maintains the register, receives the reports, and takes
compliance action. We are an independent accounting firm that corporations engage to
prepare those reports. We are not approved, endorsed, appointed or accredited by
ORIC or the Commonwealth, and nothing on this site should be read as suggesting
otherwise. If you want the Registrar’s own guidance, it is at oric.gov.au — we link to it throughout, because on the law itself it is the source and
we are not.
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