When I founded Amerital Advisory & Partners in 2014, my objective was to build an accounting and advisory practice that offered something more than preparing financial statements and tax returns.
My professional journey had already taken me through very different business environments. Before establishing Amerital, I worked in Australian public practice and subsequently in a senior corporate taxation and financial accounting role, advising privately owned corporate groups on taxation, restructuring, transactions, financial reporting and regulatory compliance.
But my experience did not begin in accounting.
Earlier in my career, I had the opportunity to work internationally in business development, investment and consulting roles across China, Singapore, India, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Those experiences gave me first-hand exposure to businesses operating across different markets, cultures and regulatory environments.
When I later developed my professional career in Australia, completing my Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Adelaide with majors in Accounting and Corporate Finance and progressing through the CPA Australia program, I came to appreciate that good professional advice requires more than technical knowledge.
It requires an understanding of how a business actually works. That principle became one of the foundations of Amerital.
Why I Established Amerital
Business owners rarely experience accounting, taxation, finance and commercial decisions as separate issues. A decision to acquire a business, restructure a group, purchase a property, bring in an investor or expand internationally can have consequences across all of them.
I therefore wanted Amerital to develop as a practice where we first understand the client’s business and objectives, and then consider the accounting, taxation and regulatory consequences around them.
This means looking beyond the immediate question of “What do I need to lodge?” and also asking: “Why are we doing this, what are the risks, and is there a better way to structure it?”
That distinction continues to shape the way I approach professional advice today.
Building Amerital
Since its establishment in 2014, Amerital has developed from an accounting and taxation practice into Amerital Advisory & Partners, providing accounting, taxation, corporate and business advisory services.
As our clients and their businesses have become more sophisticated, the matters we advise on have also evolved.
Today, our work can involve traditional accounting and taxation compliance, but it can also extend to business and ownership structures, corporate taxation, financial reporting, transactions, investments, cross-border matters and complex regulatory requirements.
Despite that evolution, I believe the underlying principle of the practice should remain straightforward:
Understand the client first. Understand the numbers second. Then provide advice that brings the two together.
My Approach to Advisory
I do not believe the role of an accountant should be limited to explaining what happened last year.
Historical numbers are important, but they should also help us understand where a business is today and assist the client in considering what comes next.
My approach is therefore built around three things: understanding, practical advice and long-term relationships.
Clients should understand the reasoning behind the advice they receive. Advice should be technically sound but also commercially workable. And, where possible, an adviser should understand a client’s history and objectives rather than looking at each transaction in isolation.
After more than a decade of building Amerital, these remain important principles for me personally and for the direction in which I want the firm to continue developing.
Looking Forward
The accounting profession continues to change. Technology and automation are transforming the way routine accounting and compliance work is performed.
I see that change as an opportunity.
As technology takes care of more routine processes, professional advisers can spend more time doing what technology cannot easily replace — understanding circumstances, exercising professional judgement, identifying risks and helping clients make informed decisions.
That is the direction I see for Amerital Advisory & Partners: combining strong technical capability with commercial understanding and developing deeper advisory relationships with the people and businesses we serve.
Terence Yew FCPA
Founder & Managing Director
Amerital Advisory & Partners
Established 2014
2014年，我创立安睿泰商务咨询事务所（Amerital Advisory & Partners）时，目标是打造一家不仅仅是编制财务报表和税务申报表的会计与咨询事务所。
在此之前，我的职业旅程已历经截然不同的商业环境。创立安睿泰之前，我曾在澳洲会计师事务所执业，随后担任企业高级税务及财务会计职位，为私营企业集团提供税务、重组、交易、财务报告及监管合规方面的咨询。
但我的职业经历并非始于会计。
在职业生涯早期，我有机会在中国、新加坡、印度、中东、欧洲及美国从事商务拓展、投资及咨询工作。这些经历让我亲身接触到在不同市场、文化和监管环境中运营的企业。
后来，我在澳洲发展专业事业，于阿德莱德大学（University of Adelaide）完成商学学士学位（主修会计与企业金融），并完成澳大利亚注册会计师协会（CPA Australia）专业课程。在这一过程中，我深刻体会到，优质的专业建议需要的不仅仅是专业技术知识。
它需要真正理解企业是如何运作的。这一原则成为安睿泰的基石之一。
我为何创立安睿泰
企业主很少会将会计、税务、财务和商业决策视为彼此独立的问题。收购企业、重组集团、购置物业、引入投资者或拓展海外业务等决定，都可能对上述各个方面产生影响。
因此，我希望安睿泰成为这样一家事务所：先了解客户的业务和目标，再围绕这些目标考虑会计、税务及监管方面的影响。
这意味着不仅要回答眼前的问题——“我需要申报什么？”，还要进一步追问：“我们为什么要这样做？有哪些风险？是否有更好的架构安排？”
这种区别至今仍影响着我提供专业建议的方式。
安睿泰的发展历程
自2014年成立以来，安睿泰已从一家会计与税务事务所，发展为安睿泰商务咨询事务所（Amerital Advisory & Partners），提供会计、税务、企业及商业咨询服务。
随着客户及其业务日益成熟复杂，我们提供咨询的事项也在不断演进。
如今，我们的工作既包括传统的会计与税务合规，也延伸至企业及所有权架构、公司税务、财务报告、交易、投资、跨境事务以及复杂的监管要求。
尽管业务不断发展，我始终认为事务所的核心原则应保持简单明了：
先了解客户，再了解数字，然后提供将两者融会贯通的建议。
我的咨询理念
我不认为会计师的角色只局限于解释去年发生了什么。
历史数据固然重要，但它们还应帮助我们了解企业当前的状况，并协助客户思考下一步的方向。
因此，我的方法围绕三点展开：理解、务实的建议，以及长期的合作关系。
客户应当理解所获建议背后的理由。建议既要在专业技术上严谨可靠，也要在商业上切实可行。并且在可能的情况下，顾问应了解客户的历史和目标，而不是孤立地看待每一笔交易。
在创建安睿泰十余年之后，这些依然是我个人所秉持的重要原则，也是我希望事务所继续发展的方向。
展望未来
会计行业在不断变化。科技与自动化正在改变日常会计及合规工作的执行方式。
我将这种变化视为机遇。
随着科技承担越来越多的常规流程，专业顾问可以将更多时间投入到科技难以替代的工作中——理解客户的具体情况、运用专业判断、识别风险，并帮助客户做出明智的决策。
这正是我为安睿泰商务咨询事务所（Amerital Advisory & Partners）规划的方向：将扎实的专业技术能力与商业洞察相结合，并与我们所服务的个人和企业建立更深入的咨询合作关系。
Terence Yew FCPA
创始人兼董事总经理
安睿泰商务咨询事务所（Amerital Advisory & Partners）
成立于2014年