Viv was made partner in a five partner practice at the age of 28 and began sole practice with a modest fee base six years later. Over the next seven years she grew the business five fold to a thriving and highly profitable three director practice. She remains a director of that same Te Puke based practice; The Business Results Group Ltd.

Viv commenced consulting to the accountancy industry ten years ago. Her credentials include presenting to more than 2,000 accountants in Australia on the NZ GST experience, co-authoring The Australian Accountant’s GST Manual and being a keynote speaker at countless NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants events. She is also the creator and author of the biggest benchmarking survey in the New Zealand accounting profession, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (published annually), as well as mastermind of The Accountants’ Big Day Out.