Autumn 2013Christmas Party The Wealth Experience Staff Christmas Party was themed ‘Viva Las Christmas’, where staff played Black Jack, Poker and the Roulette Wheel, and were even treated to a Vegas Cabaret show of Carlotta!

Kidney Kar Rally The 25th Annual Kidney Kar Rally is being held from 16 to 24 August 2013, an eight day adventure travelling from Tamworth to Armidale via Bundaberg. This event is a major fundraiser for Kidney Health Australia, and Wealth Experience has signed on as a Gold Sponsor of Kar No. 303, named “Bonnie & Clyde”.

2013 Scholarship Program As you may be aware, the Wealth Experience Scholarship Program has been in place since 2008. The Scholarship is available to Grade 12 graduates who are intending to undertake a university degree within the business industry. The Scholarship includes financial incentives regarding the recipient’s university degree along with invaluable practical working experience within a firm that presents numerous illustrious career path opportunities in the accounting, financial planning, stockbroking, superannuation, leasing & finance and banking industries. This enables the students to obtain knowledge across the broad range of their chosen study field by gaining real life experiences in each sector to determine exactly where their interests lie.

Our 2013 Scholarship recipients are Amber Reid-Farthing, Sammi McCleverty and Zac Bichel, who commenced their employment with Wealth Experience at the beginning of February. We extend a warm welcome to these new faces and hope they enjoy their time working within our firm.

New Faces Along with our Scholarship recipients, there have been a few other additions to our team since the last edition of WE Inform.

Bridgette Keating has joined the accounting division in our Toowoomba office, while Zoe Boccari has commenced a school based traineeship in our Stanthorpe office, where she will work one day a week until she graduates from Grade 12 at the end of 2014.

We extend a warm welcome to all of our new staff members.

Australia Day Awards We are very proud to announce that Sharyn Garrett of our Roma office, along with our client Jenny Hockey, were presented with an Australia Day ‘Achievement Award’ for their work in supporting local flood recovery in Mitchell. These ladies started the Mitchell Community Flood Appeal, which the Wealth Experience Charitable Trust donated to, where funds raised were distributed to all households in Mitchell as Local Shopping Vouchers to be spent at local businesses to assist economic recovery. Congratulations to Sharyn and Jenny on such a wonderful achievement!

Walker Wayland Melbourne Conference As an Independent Associate member of Walker Wayland Australasia Limited, a network of independent accounting firms, staff members of Wealth Experience attended the team conference held in Melbourne from 21st to 23rd February. The theme of the conference was ‘Strong and getting Stronger – How do we get there?’, featuring sessions on practice management, public relations and social media, as well as issues challenging small to medium enterprises today.

There were also sessions run by Sam Cawthorn. Sam died in a major car accident just three and a half years ago, but after resuscitation and a long road to recovery, he is now a professional keynote speaker who addresses issues such as leadership, attitude, resilience and crisis management. Those who attended found his sessions ‘awesome’ and very inspirational.

The staff also had the chance to let their hair down at networking events such as the WWA Brownlow Medal Amazing Race and the Gala Brownlow Dinner.

Above: The Wealth Experience Staff at the Walker Wayland Australasia Team Conference Gala Brownlow Dinner – Chelsea Brunckhorst, Amanda Kenafake, Elizabeth O’Shea, Gilda Brisotto, Sharon Baldwin, Megan Lipp, Paul Hilton and Brad Hancock

Congratulations Peter! After four long years of study and hard work, our 2009 Scholarship Recipient Peter Rowe has recently completed his Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting (USQ). Well done Peter!

Overhaul The staff of Wealth Experience have commenced their next workplace exercise program for the sixth time, where participants will attend two 45 minute sessions per week for three months. This will be great preparation for those staff members making up our six teams of three registered to partake in the Nissan Corporate Triathlon at the Gold Coast on May 4.