Led by Dr Maheswaran Sridaran, Chartered Accountant, lawyer, registered tax agent, and PhD in Australian tax law.
Director-led review
Chartered Accountant · Lawyer · Registered Tax Agent · PhD Australian Tax Law
The team prepares the work. Dr Sridaran personally reviews the quality on every engagement.
In their words
Long relationships. Difficult matters. Directly attributed.
“Dr Sridaran and his team at MS Accountants work in coordination with our staff (mostly, based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) so extremely well that we regard Dr Sridaran and his staff at MS Accountants to almost be part of our organisation, whose scope of operations covers nearly ten countries, including Australia, where we have a substantial subsidiary.”
“I do consult Sridaran for his advice on complex tax issues affecting clients of my firm, advice which he has always provided to me promptly, thoroughly, and in a very professional manner.”
“Dr Sridaran’s firm, MS Accountants, has served as our accountants throughout that period, serving us always to our complete satisfaction.”
“Are Capital Gains Equitably Taxed in Australia?”
Dr Maheswaran Sridaran · his first book, 2012
MS Accountants was built around a simple standard: serve clients to the highest level, regardless of their station, while giving the people doing the work the resources, respect, and responsibility they need to do it properly. The firm treats clients and staff as its most important assets, acts constructively and respectfully, and never charges a fee a client cannot sustain.
Trustworthiness
Responsibility
Professionalism
Teamwork
Learning from the work
The hard questions: capital gains, restructures, succession, transaction tax. Studied to doctoral level, applied to your situation.
Audits, complex investigations, litigation. Your accountant is also a lawyer, so your case is argued by someone qualified to run it all the way.
Every return, every obligation, handled accurately and on time.
The strategic financial support of an in-house CFO, without the headcount.
Your SMSF compliance work done properly.
People with his background usually end up in a corner office at a global firm. He built the opposite: a practice small enough that his own eyes pass over every piece of work that leaves it.
You get the technical depth of a global firm and the access of one adviser who knows your business by name.
Senior Accountant
CPA (Aust) · Registered Tax Agent
Accountant
CPA (Aust) · ACMA (UK)
Assistant Accountant
CPA (Aust) · ACA (Sri Lanka)
Assistant Accountant
CPA Australia (Assoc.) · MPAF, Deakin
Practice Manager
BCom (Accounting), Macquarie
These references were supplied by clients or approved by them in writing. Each one is published with permission and a clear attribution.
“Sridaran had been a friend of my husband for at least the past 12 consecutive years. After a hiatus of a few years, in 2025 my husband approached Sridaran for help with a highly complex matter he was working through with the Australian Taxation Office, one which our accountants at the time had advised offered no legal scope for mitigation. Sridaran accepted the professional responsibility of exploring the prospects for mitigating that matter, and did substantially mitigate it, in a manner that was entirely transparent and therefore legitimate. Sridaran's firm, MS Accountants, now serves as accountants to both my husband and myself. Both my husband and I regard Dr Sridaran to be a professional with a high degree of versatile expertise who is also highly reliable.”
“Dr Sridaran and his team at MS Accountants work in coordination with our staff (mostly, based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) so extremely well that we regard Dr Sridaran and his staff at MS Accountants to almost be part of our organisation, whose scope of operations covers nearly ten countries, including Australia, where we have a substantial subsidiary.”
“I do consult Sridaran for his advice on complex tax issues affecting clients of my firm, advice which he has always provided to me promptly, thoroughly, and in a very professional manner.”
14
approved client references
2010
relationships documented from the firm's beginning
35+
years in the longest client relationship described
Not an account manager, and not a rotating cast. From the first conversation, you deal with Dr Sridaran.
The tax consequences of a sale or restructure are worked out in advance, as the courts would read them, with no surprises after you sign.
The team prepares the work; he signs off on all of it. Even compliance-only clients receive senior time on the strategic issues each year.
Elsewhere, a partner wins the work and a junior does it. Here, Dr Sridaran reviews the quality on every engagement himself. That is the whole point of a boutique firm built on trustworthiness, responsibility, and professional care. The person whose name is on the door is the person on your file.
