About
Accountants Daily delivers daily breaking news, analysis and insight to Australian accounting professionals.
This online publication is focused on being an advocate for, and insider to, the accounting profession. Accountants Daily has broken some of the major political and corporate-level stories affecting professional services, and is a go-to resource for corporate through to small business accountants.
Momentum Media, the creator of Accountants Daily, has a proven track record in developing industry engagement tools for business and financial sectors and is recognised as the leading Australian publisher for the delivery of integrated media platforms.
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EVENTS
Australian accounting awards
The Australian Accounting Awards is a program that bestows the industry’s most prestigious accolades recognising excellence across the entire accounting industry. The awards pinpoint professional development and innovation, showcasing both the individuals and firms which are leading the way in the industry. Award recipients represent a true cross-section of the accounting industry, recognising the contributions of the profession’s most senior ranks through to its rising stars.
Accountants daily strategy day
The must-attend event for dedicated accounting professionals is back! Travelling to Melbourne and Sydney in August, this one-day conference is designed to aid your professional growth to expand your client offering.
Hear directly from government officials, leading industry bodies and key solutions providers and arm yourself with strategies, tactics and tools to transform your accounting practice.
30 under 30 awards
Accountants Daily 30 Under 30 Awards is a national accounting awards dedicated to recognising and celebrating outstanding young professionals in the accounting industry. This prestigious national accounting awards program presents an exceptional opportunity for the rising stars in the accounting industry to showcase their achievements and drive their career, on top of recognising their excellence and dedication to the industry.
Women in finance awards
These prestigious awards identify the leading women across financial services, from business leaders, mentors and skilled investment managers to client-centric accountants, financial advisers and mortgage brokers.
WEBCASTS
With its own in-house studio, Accountants Daily uses live-streaming technology to produce and distribute webcasts to audiences around Australia. These enable partners to expand their audience reach through informative, engaging and interactive content. Audiences can watch live on any device and interact through a live chat.
MEET OUR TEAM
Phillip Tarrant
Executive Editor – Real Estate and Consumer Wealth, Momentum Media
02 9922 3300
Phillip is a media executive with over 20 years’ experience, in a career that spans finance, real estate, business and economics. He has a passion for property and leads the content strategy for the market and business intelligence platforms at Momentum Media (www.momentumemdia.com.au) aimed at the real estate and consumer wealth sectors. This includes REB (realestatebusines.com.au), RPM (residentialpropertymanager.com.au) and Smart Property Investment (www.smartpropertyinvestment.com.au) – the authoritative voice for Australia’s property investment community. As head of the Property Investment Podcast Network, he also steers the largest network of property podcasts in Australia, which collectively generate nearly two million downloads every year.
Liam began his career as a speech writer at New South Wales Parliament before working for world-leading campaigns and research agencies in Sydney and Auckland. Throughout his career, Liam has managed and executed a range of international media and communications campaigns spanning politics, business, industrial relations and infrastructure. He’s since shifted his attention to researching and writing extensively on geopolitics and defence, specifically in North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney and is undertaking a Masters in Strategy and Security from UNSW Canberra.
Annie Kane is the editor of The Adviser and Mortgage Business. As well as writing about the Australian broking industry, the mortgage market, financial regulation, fintechs and the wider lending landscape – Annie is also the host of the Elite Broker and In Focus podcasts and The Adviser Live webcasts.
Maja's career in journalism spans well over a decade across finance, business and politics. Now an experienced editor and reporter across all elements of the financial services sector, prior to joining Momentum Media, Maja reported for several established news outlets in Southeast Europe, scrutinising key processes in post-conflict societies.
Miranda Brownlee is the editor of Accountants Daily and Accounting Times, two publications delivering analysis and insight to Australian accounting professionals. She was previously the deputy editor of SMSF Adviser and has broad business and financial services reporting experience, having written for titles including Investor Daily, ifa and Accountants Daily.
Grace is a journalist across Momentum property and investment brands. Grace joined Momentum Media in 2018, bringing with her a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) from the University of Newcastle. She’s passionate about delivering easy to digest information and content relevant to her key audiences and stakeholders.
Adam is a journalist who has worked for more than 40 prestigious media brands in the UK and Australia. Since 2005, his varied career has included stints as a reporter, copy editor, feature writer and editor for publications as diverse as Fleet Street newspaper The Sunday Times, Jones, media and marketing website Mumbrella as well as lifestyle magazines such as GQ, Woman’s Weekly and Men’s Health.
Jerome Doraisamy is the editor of Lawyers Weekly. He is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series and is a board director for the Minds Count Foundation. He holds bachelor degrees in both law and communications from the University of Technology, Sydney and is an admitted solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Prior to joining Lawyers Weekly, Jerome worked in various legal fields, including academia and research, commercial practice and a major federal government inquiry.
CONTENT
Jim has nearly 20 years of media experience across multiple industry sectors, including mortgages, real estate, wealth, law, accountancy and consumer wealth. He has been involved in leading growth across multiple brands, and has headed up a number of Momentum’s award winning brands and events. An experienced media executive and event director, Jim is currently leveraging his unique skillset to drive the development of the multiple media brands and initiatives in Momentum’s real estate, consumer wealth, SME and accountancy portfolio.
COMMERCIAL
Russell is a media executive with a career spanning 15+ years working across a range of professional sectors, including marketing, mortgages, real estate, wealth, legal and small-to-medium enterprises. He is the commercial growth director at Momentum Media, where he develops and implements strategies with the aim of accelerating growth, realising business outcomes and capitalising on new market opportunities.
Blair has over 20 years’ experience in the online sector, graduating from university with a Bachelor of Commerce in the late 1990s. Working in marketing, product development and management roles for start-ups as well as established media brands in New Zealand, UK, Germany and Australia, Blair has developed extensive knowledge across all facets of digital technology. With deep technical experience combined with a commercial mindset, Blair leads the development of digital platforms at Momentum Media.
Michael leads Agile Market Intelligence, a research agency responsible for delivering internal and external stakeholders with rich audience insights and analysis. His expertise as a Chartered Accountant, data analyst and market research professional has been critical to delivering real-world insights to Australia’s largest financial institutions, corporates and professional services firms.
Lyndsey has 11 years’ experience working in media production. Following her Master’s degree in Journalism, she worked across a set of political and public policy magazines in England as a journalist, subeditor and as production manager. Lyndsey has worked at Momentum Media for the past four years heading up the production department and managing the development of its award-winning magazines, including Australian Aviation and World of Aviation, web portals and suite of highly-ranked podcasts.
OPERATIONS
About Momentum Media
Momentum Media (www.momentummedia.com.au) has been equipping Australia’s corporate, investor and business sectors with market and business intelligence for over a decade.
Across an integrated business supported by digital, events, live streaming, broadcast, content-on-demand, research, print and social platforms, we are guided by a fundamental principal: Be better informed.
Better informed readers, listeners, viewers, event participants, advertisers, sponsors and commercial partners, government and policy decisionmakers.
This mission for informing, educating and inspiring drives us to build more engaged communities, delivering greater leadership to the markets we connect with and forging closer relationships with our audiences.
Being at the forefront of media innovation, backed by a pioneering spirit, has been central to Momentum Media’s growth.
We’re an evolving, forward-thinking business based on a purpose that supports corporate Australia and the markets critical to our nation’s economic prosperity. We’re also focused on delivering exceptional value to our commercial partners.
We continually adapt to rapidly changing marketplaces; we’re a fluid media business, unshackled to any particular technology, channel or tone of communication.
With a monthly reach spanning over a million professionals, high-net-worth individuals and business owners, we’re connected to the rapidly changing preferences and attitudes of our communities – and we’re making a positive contribution for them to thrive.