About
A quiet practice, built to be worth staying at.
Northline was founded in 1999 with an unfashionable idea: that accounting could be a considered, senior-led relationship measured in decades — not billable hours.
Founder
Elena Marchetti, CPA
Elena founded Northline in 1999 after a decade in mid-market audit and advisory. She leads the firm alongside three partners, and personally advises a small book of long-standing clients.
- Qualifications
- CPA, B.Comm (Hons), Grad Dip (Advanced Tax)
- Memberships
- CPA Australia, The Tax Institute
- Practice areas
- Advisory, structuring, Virtual CFO
- Based
- Melbourne, Australia
Our philosophy
Restraint, in a profession that rarely practices it.
We keep the book small on purpose. Every client is known by a partner. Every engagement is scoped and priced in writing before work begins. Every deliverable is reviewed by a second qualified pair of eyes.
We think of the work as long-form: relationships that compound quietly over years, not transactions that reset every June. It's a slower way to build a practice, and — we believe — a considerably better one to be a client of.
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