Gilligan Sheppard: problem-solvers for businesses

At its foundation, Gilligan Sheppard is a tax and accounting firm, but at its heart, it’s about helping our clients. Over the last nearly 40 years, we have grown to include consulting and transaction services, including trusts, land and property, international tax, investments, and business improvement.

We believe a courageous and authentic attitude is essential to disrupting the status quo and creating a better future for New Zealand businesses. We promise to approach every problem-solving opportunity with an innovative and collaborative mindset, working closely with our clients to develop solutions that meet their unique needs.

We go beyond relentless form-filling and compliance, finding creative ways to solve your problems and help grow your business and wealth. If you want to learn more about our culture, click to read more…

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Having Bill join the Canon team was a huge win right from the outset. The value Bill delivered consistently in providing leadership and guidance to his team, insight into internal and external marketing, branding and culture set a new cohesive direction for Canon. Bill has very strong family and collaborative values which are invaluable to team work; he has a genuine interest in people. With a focussed and positive attitude, great things happen. Bill’s mix of experience and skills from both an FMCG channel background and B2B with TelstraClear and now Canon are very beneficial, yet quite unusual to find, but his biggest strength is leading a team – to work together, enjoying what they do and who they do it with everyday, regardless of the pressure or tediousness of the tasks.

Mike Johnston

Canon NZ Limited

It’s been awesome to work with Bill. His coaching enabled me to understand how I could become more effective by applying new ways of working. He is a great listener and tenacious in keeping me on track. I’m inspired by his passion for high performance and value the pragmatic wisdom of his experience. Bill creates a trusted relationship easily because his genuine care is obvious. He has a gift for focusing on what matters – purpose, performance and people.

Leanne Gibson

Manurewa High School Business Academy

Bill is professional skilled sales and marketing executive that has the ability to quickly build trustworthy business relationships. He has the ability to keep relationship strong during testing times. I would describe Bill as a person that has a natural affinity with people, he has a entrepreneurial spirit and able to build respect with his peers and lasting relationships with his customers.

Patrick Carson

Telstraclear

Gilligan Sheppard have been on call for anything from data entry questions in the annual checklist through to providing advice on our company structure. The checklist system is extremely user friendly and the staff are very patient with us if we do have any queries.

Stephen Davies

Leaders in interior fit-outs, Practec Management

I’ve been dealing with Gilligan Sheppard since the 1980s. Their advice has been invaluable, especially in relation to transactions and deals, tax questions, running trusts and our internal accounting. I’m eternally grateful to them for valuable advice at key moments over many years. They always understood my various businesses, they’re always helpful and they’re great to deal with.

Robert Turner

Online directories and marketing, Turner Media

Building a business in a mature market against $100M+ competitors is no picnic, but at least we have the support of an accounting company where one of the partners wears a bike outfit to work and funny hats at public company AGM’s. We will never take the journey too seriously!

Stefan Preston

Comfortable and affordable women’s underwear, Rose & Thorne

Gilligan Sheppard was right with us from the start and they have been with us through thick and thin as we expanded in many areas with their advice

Phil Clarke

Importers of Italian food and wine, A Touch of Italy

I am eternally grateful to Gilligan Sheppard for saving my business career, and we’ve had a great business relationship ever since. Over the years, they have continued to help me when I’ve needed clever thinking and seasoned experience to help me solve complex business issues.

Steve Ballantyne

Brand story agency, Story IQ

Other accountants I’ve known simply present you with the financial facts and data and off you go. Gilligan Sheppard gives me the facts and the data, but they also help me analyse it and understand the broader context and bigger story at play – which makes it far more useful and interesting.

Liam Forde

Leadership, culture and performance architects, The Zone

Gilligan Sheppard have really helped us to grow our company and our footprint around Auckland and Whangarei. They took the time to understand our business, our people, our model and our industry risks.

Jason Rogers

Land Acquisition & Funding, Generation Homes

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As a client Gilligan Sheppard you will have access to international networks and resources to enable optimal outcomes for your business / trust / transaction.

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As a client Gilligan Sheppard you will have access to international networks and resources to enable optimal outcomes for your business / trust / transaction.

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As a client Gilligan Sheppard you will have access to international networks and resources to enable optimal outcomes for your business / trust / transaction.

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As a client Gilligan Sheppard you will have access to international networks and resources to enable optimal outcomes for your business / trust / transaction.

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