About Yates Bookkeeping Group

Vanessa Yates

Owner & founder, Vanessa Yates has spent over 30 years of her career working within accounting firms, where her passion for bookkeeping started.

Vanessa also has extensive experience with real estate trust accounting, not-for-profit organisations, and incorporations within the education sector.

She holds a Diploma in Accounting, Agents Representative Certificate, is a Registered BAS Agent and ASIC Agent. She is also a Xero Certified Advisor and Professional Partner with Reckon.

Shauna

Administration Manager

Shauna has a background working in Accounting, Real Estate, Audit Compliance and Allied Health.

She has been Administration Support for an Accountancy firm and Real Estate Sales/Property Management. She has also been an Audit Compliance Officer responsible for issuing and checking of audits for accuracy and compliance in line with government rules, regulations, and time frames.

Shauna enjoys all things healthy, long beach walks, meditating and spending time with family.

Shilpa Makan

Shilpa completed her Bachelor of Business Studies (2003) and Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (2004) at Massey University in Auckland New Zealand. After graduating she worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Fiji for three and a half years in the Audit division. She later moved to Australia in 2008 with her husband and worked for Grant Thornton Melbourne office for 8 and a half years mainly in external audit. Shilpa completed her Chartered Accountant (CA) in 2010.

Shilpa has two children. She joined her husband with his dental practice in 2017 and worked with him for 6 and half years as a Practice Manager. Shilpa has nearly 12 years of experience providing external audit and report preparation services to listed, unlisted public and private companies across a variety of business settings. Shilpa's key focus is to maintain strong relationships with the client, building the trust and confidence in them. She has experience with clients with global reporting requirements and has the ability to meet the deadlines. She is committed to keeping her professional knowledge up to date as much as possible.

In her spare time, she likes listening to music, baking , walking and spending time with her family and friends.

Mickee De Castro

Mickee has a Bachelor's degree in Accounting Management, and has over 8 years' experience working in businesses both within Australia and the Philippines.

She has a sunny disposition and loves spending time with her family and friends. She also loves to travel and explore new things and experiences. She is so in love with the color pink, and she is a fur mom to her Pomeranian dog named "Ace".

Annabel Bowd

Accountant

Annabel has a bachelor's degree in economics from Sydney University, is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Masters in Tax from UNSW. She has over 25 years' experience working in Chartered Accounting firms both in audit and in business services and tax.

Annabel is married and has two children still at university. She enjoys spending time on the weekends with friends, family and her spoodle Gracie!!