Happy doing it by the numbers

Australasian member firms of the Leading Edge Alliance, an international alliance of independently owned accounting firms, have been meeting in Dunedin this week.

At Polson Higgs in Dunedin yesterday are (from left) Tim Prowse, Tanya Craft, Allan McKeown, Mark Roderick and Stephen Higgs.

Established in 1999, the LEA has more than 190 member firms worldwide with collective revenues of $US2.7 billion. It was recently ranked by the International Accounting bulletin as the second-largest international association of independent accounting firms for 2013.

Dunedin-based firm Polson Higgs is the representative member of the LEA in New Zealand.

Managing partner Stephen Higgs said it was ''a pleasure'' to host Australian colleagues.