About the firm

Cadwallader Marinucci Veal & Co — accountants in Essendon since 1976.

For fifty years we've run from the same office on Keilor Road. Five partners, all CPA. Italian, Mandarin and Vietnamese spoken on the floor. No offshore team, no managed-service back-office in another country, no surprise invoices.

Warm timber-and-green reception and meeting area inside the Cadwall office
  • Est. 1976
  • 5 CPA partners
  • 3 languages on the floor
  • 1 Keilor Road office
  • Registered company auditor on staff
What we believe

Three principles, fifty years.

One firm, one fee, one phone number.

Accounting work isn't complicated to price — it's just been left vague for too long. We publish our fees because our clients deserve to plan their year.

Partners answer phones.

Your engagement is with a partner. That partner answers the phone, signs your return, and takes the call if the ATO writes.

Plain English.

A tradie reads our reports in the ute. A retiree reads them without their reading glasses. If a paragraph doesn't pass that test, it gets rewritten.

Our story

The short version.

1976

Don Cadwallader opens the firm at 49 Keilor Road.

1987

Roy Garro joins. Becomes partner in 1991.

1991

John Di Benedetto becomes partner.

1999

Anthony Hamilton joins; partner from 2007.

2010s

SMSF practice expands under Dominic Filippone.

2026

Five partners, three languages, one Keilor Road office.

Our credentials
  • CPA Australia member firm
  • Registered Tax Agent
  • Registered Company Auditor (Anthony Hamilton)
  • Registered SMSF Auditor on staff
  • Public Practice Certificate held
  • Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation
Community

Fifty years in the same Essendon office. The partners are north-west Melbourne locals, not a city practice parachuting in, and Italian, Mandarin and Vietnamese are spoken in the office.

Meet the partners running Cadwall.

Five partners, five direct lines. Pick the one whose specialisation matches your business.