MS Accountants
Client stories

What clients say after the work is done.

26 attributed client references, published with permission. They describe long-standing advice, difficult ATO matters, audit and compliance, and what it was like to work with the people involved.

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A reference should be traceable to a person.

This is not a carousel of anonymous praise. It is a record of who said what, and the context they chose to provide.

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Supplied or approved in writing

Every quotation comes from a supplied client reference or text the client approved in writing. Short extracts are taken directly from the full reference.

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Names stay attached

Names, roles, organisations, dates, and locations appear only where the client supplied them. Nothing has been inferred to fill a gap.

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Chapter 01

When the matter was difficult

Proof matters most when the answer is not obvious.

ATO reviews, complex tax positions, and decisions where technical judgement had to produce a defensible result.

6 client references

01.01
“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.”

Ms Bianca Fletcher

Client reference · 29 July 2026

01.02
“Since establishing MS Accountants in 2010, Sridaran and his team have acted as the accountants for my businesses. Throughout that time, I have consistently received professional, reliable, and high-quality accounting and taxation services. On one occasion, the Australian Taxation Office conducted a review of the affairs of one of my businesses. Sridaran managed the entire process on my behalf with exceptional professionalism, expertise, and attention to detail. His handling of the review ensured that it concluded without any adverse outcome for my business. I have always found Sridaran to be knowledgeable, diligent, and committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for his clients. I have no hesitation in recommending MS Accountants to any individual or business seeking dependable and highly competent accounting and taxation services.”

Mr Priyantha Cooray

Director · Opt-Us Holdings Pty Ltd

01.03
“Sridaran and I have been friends for at least 20 consecutive years since both he and I were colleagues at the same accounting firm in the city of Sydney, and both he and I established our own professional services firms around the same time, in 2010, at localities nearby—he, in North Strathfield, and I, in Burwood. Since then, often, from time to time, 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. I have always regarded Sridaran to be a professional with very versatile capability, who is very respectful, and very reliable.”

Mr Qing Ouyang

Director · Ouyang Associates · Burwood

Client reference · 28 July 2026

01.04
“⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I am pleased to recommend Dr Sridaran whom I consulted regarding an accumulated income tax issue. His firm, MS Accountants, appointed as my accountants, managed this matter with exceptional expertise. This issue had been a significant concern for me over an extended period, and I have been thoroughly impressed by Dr Sridaran’s reliability, kindness and unwavering professionalism.”

Ms Dinah Eldridge

Registered Nurse · Crescent Head

Client reference · 24 July 2026

01.05
“Perhaps three years ago, I was referred to Dr Sridaran by an accountant known to me for assistance that I was seeking in relation to a complex interaction I and my businesses were engaged in with the Australian Taxation Office, a complex interaction which Dr Sridaran has very ably handled up to now, so that I have found Dr Sridaran to not only be a professional with a very high degree of competence which includes the capability to deal with a very high degree of complexity, but also to be a professional who is duly sensitive to the need that his clients seek solutions from him that are constructive. I have, therefore, become accustomed to regarding Dr Sridaran to be a highly reliable professional.”

Ms Jian He Su (Ken)

Mmonza Living · Sydney

Client reference · 28 July 2026

01.06
“I became acquainted with Sridaran around 2006, only a few years after he had immigrated to Australia, some years after which, around 2008, I consulted Sridaran, in the capacity of a friend (not in any professional capacity of his), for his advice on a relatively complex tax matter, advice of his which I found to be sound and constructive—as I recall, at that time, he was an academic at Macquarie University—and, soon after he established his own firm, MS Accountants, which as I remember happened around early 2010, at North Strathfield, very close to where I live, Strathfield, I requested him to accept the professional responsibility for coordinating, and for ensuring the successful consummation, of a high-value transaction for the purchase of a nursing home, situated close to Strathfield, which had been initiated by my late brother who was the chief executive at the time of a large nursing home business owned by my family (a business which was based in Strathfield). Sridaran discharged that responsibility at a standard that everyone involved in that complex, high-value transaction was pleased with, and the structure that Sridaran formulated for implementing that complex, high-value transaction truly stood the test of time judged by two principal criteria: until that nursing home (which was purchased) was sold nearly 15 years later, that structure proved to be completely effective in ensuring that relations between all owners of that nursing home remained harmonious and fruitful; and that all gains that were realised on the sale of that nursing home were subject to a tax cost that was legitimately the lowest that could be achieved. I appointed Sridaran, and his firm, MS Accountants, as my accountants about five years ago, and, since then, Sridaran has always served me on a very close, personal basis, always readily responding to any requests of mine, and so have his staff at his firm. About three years ago, the Australian Taxation Office initiated an audit of my entire affairs (including all the businesses in which I had a controlling ownership interest), an audit over which I appointed Sridaran to be in-charge of on my behalf, despite some of the businesses in which I had a controlling ownership interest having as their accountants not Sridaran’s firm but mid-tier firms in the city of Sydney, an appointment which warranted a very high degree of competence in communication (both spoken and written), mastery of both facts and law, and very good organisation (to coordinate with other accounting firms which represented some of the businesses in which I had a controlling ownership interest, as well with the ATO) on the part of Sridaran, an appointment which Sridaran discharged at a very high level of proficiency, ensuring that audit did not result in a single finding by the ATO that was adverse to me or any of the businesses in which I had a controlling ownership interest, ensuring that neither I nor anyone in my family was subject to any stress at all stemming from that audit, which lasted the better part of 18 consecutive months. I can always recommend Sridaran as a professional who unfailingly serves his clients with a very sincere attitude, who unfailingly works very hard to ensure that his clients are served at both a high standard and responsibly, attributes of his which he seems to have succeeded in ensuring are fully manifested by his staff at his firm (surely suggestive of his standard of managerial competence).”

Dr Subramaniam Nirmalananda

Strathfield

Client reference · 6 October 2026

Chapter 02

Built over the long view

The strongest recommendation is the relationship that continues.

Clients who have worked with Dr Sridaran and MS Accountants over ten, fifteen, twenty, and more than thirty years.

9 client references

02.01
“Dr. Sridaran and his team at MS Accountants have been our trusted advisors for all our accounting, taxation, and compliance requirements across Australasia (Australia and New Zealand) for more than ten consecutive years. Throughout this long-standing association, they have consistently delivered services of the highest professional standard, demonstrating exceptional reliability, technical expertise, and responsiveness. What distinguishes Dr. Sridaran and his team is their ability to work seamlessly with our finance and operations teams, most of whom are based in Chennai, India. Their proactive approach, clear communication, and deep understanding of our business have enabled them to integrate effortlessly with our organization. In many respects, we regard MS Accountants as an extension of our own team rather than an external professional firm. Dr. Sridaran and the team at MS Accountants have consistently exceeded our expectations. Best Wishes.”

Mr Murali Pitchai

CFO - ROW (Rest of the world) · HTC Global Services · Chennai

Client reference · 30 July 2026

02.02
“For a period exceeding 10 consecutive years, Dr Sridaran has served as the professional from whom we have always sought any advice we need on tax, accounting, and business in general, advice which Dr Sridaran has always provided to us promptly, at a high standard. Dr Sridaran’s firm, MS Accountants, has served as our accountants throughout that period, serving us always to our complete satisfaction. Dr Sridaran’s team at MS Accountants consist of staff who have always engaged with us very cordially, very professionally, and very competently.”

Mr Harold Solomons and Mrs Rohini Solomons

Owners and Co-CEOs · Kingsgrove Sports Centre Pty Ltd

Client reference · 24 July 2026

02.03
“For nearly 15 consecutive years, in the very diverse range of businesses that I have been involved in, Sridaran has, for me, always been a most reliable “man of all seasons”, offering me sound support and advice on almost every conceivable business issue that I needed help with. He is highly proficient, and his team at his firm, MS Accountants, is extremely well-trained, and work with our staff, at all times, with seamless effectiveness and efficiency.”

Mr Amarjit Singh Thind

CEO · Ambi’s Chai group of companies · Sydney

Client reference · 24 July 2026

02.04
“I have known Sridaran for nearly 15 consecutive years, a period during which he has always served me, my family, and my family businesses (that I own and manage entirely on my own) as a highly sound, versatile source of counsel, and he and his team, functioning almost as a component of our operations, have attended to all our administrative needs in general, including accounting and tax. I have always found the reliability of Sridaran and his team to be of an exceptionally high order.”

Mr Logan Nirmalananda

CEO · AEQURA · Sydney

Client reference · 24 July 2026

02.05
“For a very long time, at least for 10 consecutive years, up to now, Sridaran has served me, and his firm, MS Accountants, has been my accountants. I have always found Sridaran to be highly reliable in the professional services he and his firm have provided to me, and Sridaran to be a highly reliable friend.”

Ms Arusha Cooray

Pennant Hills

Client reference · 24 July 2026

02.06
“I have known Sridaran for over 35 consecutive years now (working and living in each of two countries when his presence in that country and mine overlapped, first, in New Zealand, and then, in Australia) and since Sridaran established his firm, MS Accountants, which as I recall was in 2010, MS Accountants has, for most years since 2010, served as my accountants and does so currently. Throughout that very long period I have known Sridaran, I have been impressed by his unremitting dedication to a high standard of service, which he and his team at MS Accountants have always provided to me. I can always recommend Sridaran, and his firm, as people whom one can always find to be highly proficient, reliable, and duly sensitive to the circumstances and the needs of whom they serve.”

Ms Araliya De Silva

Sydney

Client reference · 28 July 2026

02.07
“Sridaran was a good friend of my late husband’s, and my late husband and I have known Sridaran for nearly 40 years, since 1987, when Sridaran, and my late husband and I, were living and working in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. Even as far back as then, my late husband considered Sridaran to be an accountant who displayed promise. Sridaran and his firm, MS Accountants, have served as my accountants from the very inception of his firm in February 2010, and, throughout that long period that they have served me, I have always found Sridaran to be highly reliable, professional, and respectful, and his team of staff at MS Accountants to bear those same attributes.”

Dr Shanthini Tambimuttu

Sydney

Client reference · 26 September 2026

02.08
“I, in my capacity as a specialist medical doctor, have had Sridaran and his firm, MS Accountants, serve me as my accountants commencing soon after Sridaran established his firm, which as I recall was in early 2010. I have, therefore, had quite an enduring professional association with Sridaran and his firm, and I cannot think of any shortcomings in how they have served me over that quite long period. I can unhesitatingly recommend them as professionals who always serve their clients responsibly, reliably and respectfully, at a high professional standard.”

Dr Poomahal Kumar

Sydney

Client reference · 26 September 2026

02.09
“I first met Sridaran in 1992, when he was the head of the tax practice of Coopers & Lybrand (a firm which later became PricewaterhouseCoopers “PwC”) in Colombo, and, since then to date, that is, for over 30 consecutive years, he and I have been good friends, and he has been my advisor on any matter that I had sought his advice on, a position that has thus obtained, without any interruption, in two countries: first, in Sri Lanka, and thereafter, in Australia, a country to which I and my family did immigrate in 2000, and Sridaran did perhaps a couple of years before me and my family. Since Sridaran established his firm, MS Accountants, which, as I recall, was around 2010, he and his firm have served as my accountants, a role which they have always performed at a high level of competence, in no small part due to Sridaran’s mastery of the practical workings of the tax and regulatory systems of both Australia and Sri Lanka, given that I have continued to own and manage considerable business interests in Sri Lanka even after I and my family immigrated to Australia. I, and all in my family, have always regarded Sridaran to be both a highly dependable friend and a highly dependable advisor.”

Mr Vallipuram Satyendra

Sydney and Colombo

Client reference · 7 October 2026

Chapter 03

At the business side

A good adviser becomes part of how the business operates.

Audit, compliance, accounting, and practical counsel delivered with responsiveness, care, and an understanding of the organisation behind the numbers.

7 client references

03.01
“As Facilio expands its presence in Australia, having a partner who understands the local regulatory landscape was essential. MS Accountants has been our trusted partner for audit and compliance since we set up our Australian entity, and Sridaran's attention to detail and responsiveness have given us confidence in our regulatory compliance standpoint. We value that partnership.”

Mr Krishnamoorthi Rangasamy

Co-Founder · Facilio Inc

Client reference · 30 July 2026

03.02
“Sridaran’s firm, MS Accountants, has been the accountants for at least the past four consecutive years of two companies that I control, a period during which Sridaran has been the person that I have first turned to for any advice I need in relation to my two companies. Sridaran has always provided that advice to me promptly and constructively, but also responsibly. I have always found Sridaran and his team at MS Accountants to be highly professional and reliable.”

Mr Yannick Samarasinghe

Australian MMA Pty Ltd · Off Scratch Golf Pty Ltd · Balmain

Client reference · 28 July 2026

03.03
“Sridaran has always very generously helped me in relation to every matter that I have sought his help for at least five consecutive years up to now, help which has encompassed the many diverse businesses that I have carried out during that period. During that same period, his firm, MS Accountants, has served as my accountants, a firm whose staff, like Sridaran, I have always found to be kind, sympathetic, very hard-working, professional, and reliable. I will not choose any other people to serve me.”

Ms Laura Cristina Mathias

Cairns

Client reference · 28 July 2026

03.04
“I have known Sridaran for at least five years up to now, for the most part of which his firm, MS Accountants, has been my accountants. Sridaran has always served me highly professionally, with very close attention to all details, always striving to accomplish for me the best outcomes possible. I would rank Sridaran’s reliability to be very high.”

Ms Virginia Stalenberg

Central Coast

Client reference · 24 July 2026

03.05
“When I was based in Sydney (which I am currently not), I knew Dr Sridaran for about a year, during which, on a few occasions, he provided professional advice to me, upon my request made of him, on tax and other legal matters, advice which I always found to be both responsible and constructive. I was impressed by how generously and how humbly he served me, attributes of his which I can clearly envisage anyone seeking professional help from an accountant will highly value.”

Mr Mahmoud Alahmad

Brisbane

Client reference · 28 July 2026

03.06
“For at least four consecutive years up to now, Sridaran has both been a friend and an adviser to me in relation to tax and legal matters applicable to myself personally and my businesses, even at times my businesses were facing some severe problems (during the Covid pandemic). During that same period, Sridaran’s firm, MS Accountants, has been the accountants of myself and my business, a responsibility which that firm, as has Sridaran, always discharged at a high standard. I have always found Sridaran and his team at MS Accountants to be professionals who are both “people” that one can very easily relate to and professionals whose competence that one can entirely rely on.”

Daniel Jones

The DAN JONES Label Pty Ltd · Sydney

Client reference · 28 July 2026

03.07
“Serving us from Sydney, Dr Sridaran and his team serve us, even though we are based in Townsville, with such deep understanding of our locality, our industry, and our personal circumstances, we cannot think of anyone apart them as a team of professionals whom we should turn to on almost any problem in relation to our taxes or any business problem in general, as Dr Sridaran’s team at MS Accountants serves as almost an integral part of our operations.”

Dr Raguharan Kathiresu

NQ Geriatrics Pty Ltd · Townsville

Client reference · 24 July 2026

Chapter 04

Establishing an Australian entity

Coordinating the legal work of establishment.

This reference describes legal coordination for an Australian subsidiary and expressly excludes operational matters.

1 client reference

04.01
“As a multinational business with operations in many countries, we appointed Dr Sridaran as our “point man” in Australia, with respect to the highest legal matters (not at all with respect to any operational matters), in relation to our subsidiary company in Australia, a role which he has discharged very responsibly (for instance, he attended to all tasks that required proper attendance for us to ensure that our subsidiary company in Australia properly and smoothly operationalised in Australia, tasks which he attended to very efficiently and responsibly), coordinating extremely well with our own staff (largely, based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and in Nashville, Tennessee, USA).”

Mr Srinivasan Karunakaran

Director · Kanini Software Solutions Group · Chennai

Client reference · 28 July 2026

Chapter 05

Personal accounting and advice

Attention to the person behind the advice.

These references describe ongoing personal accounting services and clear advice informed by individual circumstances.

3 client references

05.01
“Sridaran and his firm, MS Accountants, have served me as my accountants for at least the past five consecutive years, a period during which their attention to my affairs has been such that I have never had any opportunity to express any concerns at all of mine with respect to their services provided to me. I can recommend them as a professional services firm that is always highly mindful that they should strives to serve their clients at a high standard.”

Ms Jayne Hyde

Sydney

Client reference · 26 September 2026

05.02
“I and my wife, who were recently married, sought the help of Dr Sridaran, who had served my father as my father’s accountant in Australia for at least the past 15 consecutive years, for the complex advice that I and my wife needed to formulate our thoughts on how best we—I and my wife—should proceed to accumulate wealth together in view of the fact that we were now married. Dr Sridaran provided that advice to us both orally (at a meeting that he had with us, in person) and subsequently in writing with an admirable degree of clarity, based on a very thorough appreciation of our factual circumstances (especially, the factual circumstances of my wife who had arrived in Australia only relatively recently from her home country, Malaysia). We were quite impressed by the very high standard of that advice that we received from Dr Sridaran, both orally (at a meeting that he had had with us, in person), and in writing.”

Mr Prashanthan Ranjan

Sydney

Client reference · 28 July 2026

05.03
“When I and my wife recently arrived in Australia from our home country, New Zealand, to take up employment in Australia, a friend of ours referred us to Dr Sridaran for the complex tax advice that we needed to formulate how we should arrange our affairs, both in Australia and in New Zealand, so that our exposure to Australian tax was legitimately reduced, advice which Dr Sridaran provided to us in writing with admirable promptness and clarity, with a very thorough regardfulness to our factual circumstances, at a fee which we considered was not at all excessive. We, therefore, formed the view that we can rightly consider Dr Sridaran to be a highly competent and highly reliable professional.”

Mr Leonard David Pauling

Sydney

Client reference · 28 July 2026

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