RSM celebrates 100 years| RSM Australia

On 27 March 2022, RSM marks its 100^th anniversary of supporting businesses in Australia.

Leading accounting and advisory firm, RSM celebrates 100 years of building strong, collaborative relationships and supporting Australian businesses.

Founded in Perth in 1922 as the National Service Company, RSM has grown from a humble husband and wife partnership operating without staff and selling a bookkeeping and recording system, to a national accounting firm with more than 1500 staff embracing all areas of business advice.

The firm is also part of the RSM global network which is the world’s sixth largest audit, tax, and consulting network found in 123 countries.

There have been many highlights for the firm over this time.

The firm has an unparalleled presence in both metropolitan and regional locations and opened its 32^nd office in Gosford on the central coast of New South Wales in 2021.

The introduction of consulting services with fraud and forensic services in 2012 was bolstered by the addition of cybersecurity, data analytics, IT Managed Services, and ERP consulting services. RSM celebrates 100 years

These services are now delivered nationally and together with other corporate areas including restructuring and recovery, audit, and corporate finance, which constitutes 43% of the firm’s revenue.

The innovative spirit has been at RSM since the initial ‘business system’ was patented by the firm’s founder in 1924. The past decade has seen the firm fully embrace purpose-driven innovation through the appointment of an Innovation Committee, and rollout of an Innovation Portal, seeking continuous and disruptive improvements from all parts of the practice.

As an organisation with many staff from diverse backgrounds and beliefs, the launch of the firm’s diversity and inclusion program, Diversify, in 2016 has provided a plan to ensure the firm embeds the right behaviours to build a truly diverse and inclusive culture.

In both rounds of Principal promotions in 2021-22, the male to female ratio was 50/50 with a majority of new appointments coming from diverse cultural backgrounds.

The firm’s client-centric culture has won them many awards, one that can be traced back to their early practice of taking the service out to clients or the ‘feet under the kitchen table’ approach.

Since the inception of the Client Choice Awards in 2005, RSM has been a finalist in 43 categories and has been awarded the best Accounting and Consulting firm (>$200m) five times including the past three years in a row.

Jamie O'Rourke, Chairman of RSM, said;

“As we commemorate our 100^th year, I am excited and honoured to lead the firm alongside our talented team. We measure our success by that of our clients and staff, and looking at their growth stories, we couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve achieved over these 10 decades.”

RSM celebrates 100 years in Australia

On 27 March 2022, RSM marks its 100th anniversary of supporting businesses in Australia.

Leading accounting and advisory firm, RSM celebrates 100 years of building strong, collaborative relationships and supporting Australian businesses.

“As we commemorate our 100th year, I am excited and honoured to lead the firm alongside our talented team. We measure our success by that of our clients and staff, and looking at their growth stories, we couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve achieved over these 10 decades.”

On 27 March 2022, RSM marks its 100^th anniversary of supporting businesses in Australia.

“As we commemorate our 100^th year, I am excited and honoured to lead the firm alongside our talented team. We measure our success by that of our clients and staff, and looking at their growth stories, we couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve achieved over these 10 decades.”