About Guardian Accounting
Your Chartered Accountant In Howick, Auckland
Guardian Accounting is a Howick-based chartered accounting practice providing personal, expert accounting and tax services to individuals, small businesses, and organisations across East Auckland and beyond.
We are not a faceless firm. You deal directly with Bruce Urquhart — an experienced Chartered Accountant who understands both the technical side of accounting and the real-world decisions clients face.
A boutique accounting practice built around clarity, trust, and direct advice.
Simple idea: professional accounting support should feel clear, personal, and dependable.
Meet Bruce Urquhart
A Chartered Accountant With Real-World Business Experience
Bruce brings more than accounting qualifications. His background spans senior corporate finance, technology businesses, public practice, not-for-profit organisations, and direct client advisory work.
Bruce Urquhart
B.Com, CA (PP) — Chartered Accountant
Professional Standards
30+ Years As A Chartered Accountant
Bruce is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant, a Member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, and holds a Certificate of Public Practice. This gives clients confidence that their accounting and tax matters are being handled with professional standards, ethical care, and practical experience built over three decades.
How We Work
Accounting Support That Feels Clear, Personal, And Practical
Guardian Accounting is built around a simple idea: clients should feel informed, supported, and confident about their accounting and tax decisions.
Step 01
We Start By Understanding Your Situation
Every client’s situation is different. Before offering advice, Guardian Accounting takes time to understand your business, income, obligations, concerns, and goals so the support you receive is relevant and practical.
This helps avoid generic advice and gives you accounting support that is shaped around your actual needs.
Who We Help
Accounting Support For The People Behind The Numbers
Guardian Accounting works with a wide range of clients — from individuals and sole traders to small businesses, trusts, property owners, clubs, and charitable organisations.
Personal Accounting
For Individuals Who Want Things Clear And Correct
Whether you need help with a tax return, income questions, investment income, or general accounting obligations, Guardian Accounting helps make the process clearer and easier to manage.
Tax returns, income records, rental income questions, and general accounting guidance.
Straightforward explanations, accurate preparation, and confidence that important details have been handled properly.
Our Promise
Accounting Should Feel Clear, Helpful, And Human
Guardian Accounting is built around more than technical accounting work. The goal is to make clients feel supported, informed, and confident at every step.
Clear Advice
No unnecessary jargon. No confusion.
Accounting and tax can feel complicated. Guardian Accounting focuses on explaining things in a way that makes sense, so you understand what is happening and what needs to happen next.
Personal Service
You work directly with Bruce.
Guardian Accounting is not a faceless accounting firm. Clients receive direct, personal support from Bruce, with a relationship built around trust, responsiveness, and understanding.
Professional Standards
Qualified CA guidance you can trust.
Bruce is a Chartered Accountant and CA ANZ member with public practice experience, giving clients confidence that their accounting and tax matters are handled with care and professionalism.
Long-Term Support
Advice that grows with your needs.
Whether your needs are simple today or more complex tomorrow, Guardian Accounting aims to provide dependable, long-term support for individuals, businesses, trusts, and organisations.