Duncan Ashby is a farm business adviser and CPA who specializes in business advice focused on business reporting and analysis; and management accounting and financial performance measurement, marketing and the supply chain. 

 Special interests: Management accounting and reporting – budgeting, financial management, and business performance analysis; Agri-Business Advice – including farm planning, book-keeping (especially efficient management of financial reporting and budgeting; and the software required); succession and estate planning; and risk management; and Agricultural produce supply chains and Blockchain strategy.   

Operating throughout south-eastern Australia, Duncan works with clients to review, analyze and develop efficient and profitable businesses. His focus is on ensuring the businesses are structured in a tax effective manner with clearly developed succession and estate plans.  

 Areas of interest - guest lecturer in the Farm Management and Agribusiness courses at Marcus Oldham College; undertakes corporate governance work with selected companies (company secretary), has co-authored a RIRDC publication on land leasing and is a Churchill Fellow (who researched farm leasing in the UK, Canada and the USA).