Meet The Nova Business Professionals Team
We’ve been hanging out helping people in the flourishing suburb of Hamilton since 2002.
Nova Business Professionals (Nova BP) offers business, superannuation and taxation advice to business clients and individuals throughout Newcastle, the Hunter, and across NSW.
At Nova BP, we know that success is built on integrity and trust and we’re all about developing personal relationships with our clients to ensure a good working relationship.
Our team is armed with knowledge and understanding to help solve your business problems fast! We’re good communicators, with oodles of patience.
We’ll break down the complex issues of your finances and answer all your questions.
Let us become an extension of your business!
Our Values for Client Success
We recently decided to introduce specific measures of our own performance against benchmarks based on the values at the head of this page:
Efficiency and Effectiveness: Our measure for Efficiency & Effectiveness was perhaps the easiest to benchmark we’ve always measured our responsiveness and had a thorough understanding of what clients expected: How long does it take us to respond to a query? how long do we let the phones ring before answering? How long does it take to process tax returns? We’re tracking our performance across the entire NovaBP operation to continuously improve our performance in this way.
Integrity and Trust: Performance in these qualities is extremely hard to measure, Scott Read, the founder of NovaBP who has a lifetime interest in sailing. Put’s it this way when you’re in one of those “all hands on deck” situations you need to just know that people know their job and have not just the capability but also the commitment to just do the right thing. Measuring how often we do the right thing turned out to be relatively easier. Generally, when we get it right our clients tell us. Similarly, as you’d expect if we get it wrong, we hear about it.
Insight and Perspective: Our measure for qualities of insight and perspective was inherently the most challenging, however, we’ve come to realise that it’s fundamentally at the core of what we do as accountants and financial managers. We’ve come to understand that the numbers have meaning, they represent actually circumstances and events in the real world that are critical to our clients business and financial interests.
Caring: Our measure for caring was tricky to quantify, what demonstrated a value so contingent on emotional intelligence. We decided that going beyond the routine and really knowing our clients as people not just as their business identities mattered. The personal touch.
- Effectiveness & Efficiency 93%
- Insight & Perspective 73%
- Trust & Integrity 80%
- Customer Satisfaction & Retention 97%
Dixon Nguyen
Accountant/SMSF Specialist
Dixon Nguyen is a highly qualified Chartered Accountant with a robust academic background and extensive experience in the accounting field. He holds a Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting, a Master of Professional Accounting, and a Master of Business in Finance, all from reputable Australian universities. In addition to his academic achievements, Dixon is recognized as a SMSF Specialist Advisor and is a certified adviser and payroll in Xero.
Before joining Nova Business Professionals, Dixon gained valuable experience at several public accounting firms, where he honed his skills in financial analysis, reporting, and client management. At Nova, he continues to provide exceptional accounting services and leverage his financial expertise to help clients achieve their financial goals.
Beyond his professional accomplishments, Dixon is driven by a profound commitment to social responsibility. He aspires to allocate resources supporting schools, universities, and hospitals in underserved areas, thereby enhancing access to education and healthcare for those in need.
In his free time, Dixon enjoys engaging in various hobbies. He is an avid reader and enjoys playing badminton and soccer, activities that not only keep him active but also foster camaraderie with friends and family. Dixon values the time spent with loved ones, believing that strong personal connections are as important as professional success. Through his work and personal initiatives, Dixon Nguyen exemplifies a balanced and purpose-driven approach to both life and career.
Scott Read
Accountant / Financial Advisor
Scott Read (Director) founded Nova Business Professionals in late 2002 and has worked with hundreds of Newcastle and Hunter based businesses specializing in financial planning, taxation & business mentoring.
Scott has over twenty five years investment experience and recently obtained his AFSL (Australian Financial Services License) to provide clients with independent advice
He is an authorized representative of SMSF Advisors Network Pty Ltd and in order to help clients to map out a pathway to their retirement.
Scott has developed the NovaBP business planning software, which provides a financial and marketing template that has now been used by thousands of small business clients to chart their business growth and development.
The program uses a fully automated spreadsheet to make the business planning as easy as possible for students and small business owners.
Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macquarie University, Sydney – majoring Accounting & Economics.
He has a Diploma in Financial Planning – from the International Institute of Technology and a Certificate IV Workplace Assessment and Training.
He is Treasurer of the Kyegu Relief Fund Incorporated which was a disaster relief fund established to support victims of the 2010 earthquake in Tibet.
Scott is a Member of the Association of Management and Taxation Accountants (ATMA), an Authorized Representative of SMSF Advisors Network Pty Ltd (SAN) and a Registered Tax Agent.
Scott has also qualifications in Somatic Psychotherapy. He keeps busy maintaining a 40 acre property in Mandalong. He is a keen bee keeper, enjoys sailing and follows AFL football’s Sydney Swans.
Ashleigh Cook
Accountant/ Office Manager
Hey, I’m Ash!
Self-confessed number geek – mildly obsessive and a perfectionist when it comes to getting results!
I joined Nova Business Professionals in 2008 and am now a co-director of the company.
I thought I wanted to be a fitness instructor when I grew up. I loved exercising, dancing and eating healthy. So off I went and did the personal training courses, got my qualifications and embarked on a bookkeeping course so I could run my newfound business. But only a couple of weeks in, and I was hooked on all things accounting!
Recording and classifying financial transactions, cross-referencing and balancing books lit a fire in me. I was obsessed. To do it for my own business wasn’t going to be enough. I wanted to do it for a living. So here I am now! Accountant, bookkeeper, tax agent and small business manager – I get to do what I love every day.
I manage all our clients’ self-managed super funds (SMSF), oversee the entire bookkeeping function, (working closely with my colleague Ivy (you’ll meet her soon)) and end of year support for our company and trust structures.
I’m also a wife to one and mother of two. When I’m not at work, I love hanging with the fam at the beach, doing fun runs or busting out moves with my local dance group.
Ivy Ding
Assistant Accountant/Bookkeeper Extraordinaire
Hi there, I’m Ivy!
I joined the Nova BP crew in 2023.
I’m a qualified Accountant and have a blackbelt in bookkeeping. Look out!
I’ll whip your numbers into line and see what unwanted costs we can kick to the kerb.
I do all the admin and bookkeeping for our small business clients as well as for our Hamilton office. You don’t have to worry about a thing when I’m looking after your accounts.
I’ll do your BAS, maintain your financial records and make your books watertight.
I work super efficiently which means I minimise the hours charged and can work at any capacity you need me. I’ve studied a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting and Finance and am always looking to evolve my knowledge so I can be of greater value to my clients.
When not crunching numbers, I love spending time with my daughter and look forward to meeting with you all soon …
My wife and I have been self employed for the last 25 years. For most of that time Scott Read and the Nova Business Professionals have been there; not only to provide excellent support with routine financial matters like taxation and business reporting, but their team has also guided us through the challenges, changes in the business environment and the evolution of both our businesses. They helped us to establish our self managed super fund, set up our business structures and supported us to grow and become more confident and secure in our financial affairs. Now, approaching retirement, we know that Nova has the capability to help us to navigate into our rapidly changing economic future.