Ascern Advisers

Ascern Advisers is Australia's premier provider of CFO Services for small to medium sized enterprises. 

Our trusted CFOs help business owners and operators grow faster, generate value, and achieve their business and personal goals.

Commercially experienced CFOs | Zero recruitment fees | ready for action

Founder | CFO

Dads Group

Dads Group is about changing the culture of fatherhood for the better. We promote positive parenting for men and give new Dads the support and connection they need.

Non Executive Director

Department of Employment, Small Business and Training

Business Mentor, Mentoring for Growth Program

Queensland Cradle Care

Queensland Cradle Care supports mothers and families in the critical time after mum and baby return home after birth.

Director

Dutch Chamber of Commerce Queensland

Dutch Chamber of Commerce Queensland is a business platform supporting the commercial interests of The Netherlands and Queensland.

Board Secretary

Blue Mountain Co

Blue Mountain Co is offering products that deliver an effective rain harvesting system for homes and businesses.

Chief Financial Officer

INSELEC

Inselec is a Specialty Electrical Workforce provider supplying electrical workers to Commercial, Infrastructure, Solar, and other projects across Australia.

IntoWork Australia

IntoWork Australia is a Not-For-Profit group specialising in recruitment, employment, training, and Disability community and employment services. MRAEL merged into the Group in 2016.

Group Chief Financial Officer

MRAEL is a Not-For-Profit business specialising in recruitment, employment, training, and employment services. The Group operates throughout Queensland with its Group Training Organisation, Registered Training Organisation, Australian Apprentice Support Network and Senior Secondary School Trade College.

Chief Financial Officer, MRAEL

GM Finance, MRAEL

Energex

Energex is a top 100 Australian company with more than $7 billion in total assets. EsiTrain is Energex’s Registered Training Organisation responsible for technical training of field staff to work on the network. Electricity Distribution.

EsiTrain Business Manager

Li & Fung Limited

Finance Manager/Controller - Promocean

Providing Part-time CFOs to grow your business | Founder at Ascern

In Australia, there are approximately 2.5 million SMEs all needing financial guidance. But there are only 100,000 CFOs.


Without solid financial data and knowledge, many business owners struggle to make the best decisions. This is where a Fractional CFO can make all the difference.



◾️ABOUT ME

​Financial Executive bringing Australian & International commercial experience to Australian SMEs.

I work with Owners, MDs, GMs and management teams. 

Experienced in goods and services industries including manufacturing, import / export, wholesale / distribution labour hire / recruitment, NFP, training / education, NFP, NDIS.



◾️CLIENT NEEDS

💡 Growing businesses struggling to manage cashflow

💡 Businesses that have plateaued

💡 Owners preparing the business to exit

💡 Family businesses transitioning to the new generation

💡 Companies reaching the limits of team and system capability

💡 Finance teams, managers, & executives needing training, coaching & mentoring



◾️ENGAGEMENTS / EXPERTISE

💪 Strategic Planning & Direction

💪 Financial Forecasting, Reporting & Analysis

💪 Cashflow Improvement

💪 Working Capital Management

💪 Risk Management

💪 Process & System Efficiencies

💪 Finance team - Training, Coaching & Mentoring


◾️TESTIMONIALS

🗣️ “The Ascern team have become an integral part of our business. David’s insights, planning, forecasting and guidance have taken our business to new heights, something we couldn’t have done without him.” - Clarke Services Group

🗣️ “His advice and ability to identify our key financial & operational metrics has helped us immensely on our journey." - DD Group International

🗣️ “David is like a multilingual translator that can communicate the extensive financial drivers into a language capable of being understood by many different levels and backgrounds in the team." - 3eeBusiness"



◾️Contact
✉️david@ascern.com.au


◾️Success Stories
💻 www.ascern.com.au 


◾️Discovery Call
🔎 https://calendar.app.google/fv4RPXWcTDWC1SCf6

David Harreveld

electrafi

All accountants will eventually be crypto accountants; I had a head start in 2013 and keep evolving with my clients! I rebranded my 16y.o. accounting practice as ElectraFi, to focus on the cutting edge of crypto accounting, financial operations, structuring and Australian international tax services to businesses, startups and their founders. I'm also available to consult with accounting firms and their clients adopting crypto. 
✨ Bitcoin, crypto, digital asset business adoption strategy 
✨ Crypto accounting software selections, integrations, and set up
✨ Financial operations, accounting and bookkeeping processes 
✨ Monthly reporting, cash runway, burn rate, and analysis
✨ Tax agent and ASIC agent services
✨ Service scoping and training for accountants
✨ Treasury management and compliance guidance
✨ Advisory resources, speaking events, CPD

https://electrafi.finance/

Accounting for Bitcoin Web3 & Open Blockchain Enterprises 

CREDU

I am researching and developing CREDU as a verified credentialing, ​audit and marketplace ​platform for accountants’ ​continuous professional ​education (CPE) and ​development (CPE) as a project with Digital Playhouse Foundation Ltd, using open source technologies. 

The intention is to solve inefficiencies in aggregating, ​tracking, verifying and ​monetising CPE/CPD for accountants, addressing their challenges in meeting professional requirements and public expectations of competency, and monetising their specialist knowledge. 

Professional bodies, valuing the quality of their membership and needing to cut costs, can easily audit and publicly share the CPE/CPD compliance rating and expertise of their membership with proof on open blockchain. I believe that creating this level of transparency will renew the public trust in my profession.

Ultimately, I want CREDU to give the individuals and associations that demonstrate the highest standards of knowledge, integrity and transparency a competitive advantage in the digital economy. 

We need to form a team of skilled professionals and developers to drive this project with me, with a 5-10 year roadmap for global adoption.

🚀 Founder #BuildingOnBitcoin

Stacks Australia

As a Stacks Advocate, raising awareness of Stacks' utility as a Bitcoin layer 2 for smart contracts, through content creation, personal interactions and public speaking engagements. 

This includes articulating the value proposition of Stacks to a broader enterprise audience, to include business decision-makers, investors and partners. 

Organising and overseeing meetings and events to foster a deeper understanding of Bitcoin L1 and L2 technology and its applications among enterprise stakeholders. 

Working closely with the Stacks Australia Leads to strategically tailor communication and engagement efforts that meet the diverse needs and interests of each stakeholder group, from founders and developers to network participants to investors.

Enterprise Engagement 

Digital Playhouse Foundation

Digital Playhouse Foundation is a purpose built charity with the ACNC - a Public Benevolent Institution (PBI) recognised for 'Advancing social or public welfare'. The School of Bitcoin and Stacks Australia are current digital literacy projects.

A "School of Arts" for industry 5.0... As Australia progresses with its Digital Economy Strategy 2030, we address the problem of a lack of Digital Skills and Financial Literacy in populations where there is a high level of at-risk young people and self-employed. 

OUR CHARITABLE PURPOSE:
Financial literacy and inclusion go hand in hand. Our purpose is provide benevolent relief to socially and/or financially disadvantaged individuals to enable them to access emerging technologies and to reskill with digital technologies that create inclusive and sustainable economic growth and achievement of full and productive employment and decent work for all. Our focus is on communities where our most disadvantaged Australians are at risk of being left behind. 

OUR DAO WHITEPAPER (in development):
Our Board is researching the application of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to manage its charitable value chain, records of transactions and governance. Decentralised, public blockchains are immutable and 100% transparent for all to see. By harnessing the Bitcoin blockchain for a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) to power the Foundation's investment fund, rewards and DOA governance will resource long term objectives without dependence on external grants.

CURRENT PROJECTS:
- Coding 4 Kids and GameChangers 
- The School of Bitcoin theschoolofbitcoin.com
- Stacks Australia stacksaustralia.au
- Accountants On-Chain accountantsonchain.com
- The Biggest Web3 Classroom - Youth (Blockchain Week 2023)

FISCAL SPONSORSHIP:
We may extend our tax-exempt status to not-for-profit associations, social enterprises and groups engaged in projects that relate to our organisation's charitable mission. Contact us if we can explore working together!

Co-Founder and Director 

Electra Frost Advisory

I founded Electra Frost Advisory to help small to medium businesses become more resilient to disruption, with improved focus on profitability. I created more holistic and advisory-led packages than traditional tax accounting services, and harnessed the expertise of other specialists in my networks, to lead my team and clients towards better prospects and control over their financial futures. By working remotely with the best cloud business tools and a 4-day working week, my team of dedicated employees enjoy better lifestyles than many other professionals in our industry. Their improved well-being and productivity is reflected in their quality of work, attention given to our clients, and better outcomes for all.

Accountant, Business Advisor & Director

Specialist accounting, tax and business advisory services for people in the artistic and creative industries, and international tax advice for creative Australians abroad. Established 2008 with a diverse client base of arts professionals and small to medium businesses located in Sydney, Brisbane, regional Australia and overseas.

Accountant, Business Advisor and Director

Accountants On-Chain

A project I lead under Digital Playhouse Foundation to maximise the charity's social impact. Webinars, training, consulting and speaking for crypto-curious accountants, bookkeepers and advisers learning to support SME businesses adopting Web 3.0 and innovating within their own practices.  

We learn to use crypto subledger tools with our accounting software, participate in DAO research and blockchain accounting projects, explore tax agent ethics and competencies, and help each other solve crypto accounting and tax problems.

Accountants On-Chain is a Digital Playhouse Foundation social project to develop new business support models for the emerging decentralised digital economy.

Project Lead

Sorrento Strategic Accounting Pty Ltd

Accounting Workflow & App Implementation Consultant 

Blockchain Academy International

Ensuring high quality delivery of training, support and career guidance to students of the Diploma and Advanced Diploma of Applied Blockchain, and Diploma of Applied Blockchain Merging Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. 

As an accountant I'm passionate about blockchain because it's an accounting and governance technology with huge potential to drive major changes across global business. I love how these courses instil specialist problem solving and strategy creation in students as we work through projects of applying blockchain to our business models. 

Blockchain Academy is passionate about delivering new innovative educational courses that will serve the blockchain industry now and into an exciting future. Committed to ensuring the latest technological advancements are available to students and graduates through delivery of Australia's first and only nationally accredited next level Applied Blockchain Diploma and Advanced Diploma programmes.

Blockchain Education Manager 

Discovery Accountants & Advisers

Accounting, tax and business advisory services for SME's, digital entrepreneurs and remote business operators on the beautiful Discovery Coast, Agnes Water / 1770. 
* I closed this practice in May 2020 when consolidating my practices into Electra Frost Advisory.*

Principal and Consultant

entArt Accounting

Established by Barry Moore CA in the early 1990's, entArt Accounting specialised in business management and tax services primarily for the music industry.

Tax Consultant and Accountant 

Since 2000, I've specialised in accounting and tax for arts & entertainment businesses, creative technologists, digital entrepreneurs, crypto-native organisations, and global founders navigating Australia’s international tax rules. From my early days in inner-city Sydney, to remote Qld, and now being based in Perth and part of Balaji Srinivasan’s The Network School in Singapore/Malaysia, I’ve consistently modernised accounting practices and services to support the evolving digital economy.

I continue to provide specialist advisory and web3 accounting services, working remotely with clients worldwide. My practice has been digital-native since before it was cool, bringing efficiency and financial legitimacy to emerging business models that don't fit the mould.

I don't just adapt to change. I first solved the accounting for business Bitcoin payments in 2013, and I'd built an advanced digital practice well before the pandemic made remote systems mainstream. We've always been positioned to support clients at the cutting edge - now I’m building what comes next.

As co-founder of the Digital Playhouse Foundation Ltd, a PBI charity advancing social welfare, I help at-risk communities and individuals gain Bitcoin focused financial literacy skills. Our early work in Agnes Water - Australia’s first “Digital Currency Town” - set the tone for how grassroots adoption can catalyse local resilience and inclusion in the global digital economy.

Now, my focus is expanding to:
🟧 Accounting on decentralised infrastructure
🟧 Bitcoin’s unit-of-account function for financial reporting and value tracking
🟧 Design open systems for verifying professional reputation and continuous learning (e.g., CREDU for CPD/CPE on Bitcoin Layer 2, Stacks)
🟧 Map accounting competencies to support sovereign individuals and startup societies aligned with The Network State.

The accounting profession already knows how to uphold standards, ensure transparency, and act as trusted advocates. My goal is to carry this legacy into the decentralised economy - equipping one million accountants to collaborate across borders, administer on-chain standards, reinvent regulations, and uphold financial integrity beyond traditional institutions.

Follow me and get involved along the way!

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