About USQ Accountants
Quality accounting shouldn't cost a fortune.
We started USQ because we believed every growing Australian business deserves expert-level accounting — without the eye-watering bills. So we built a tech-driven practice that delivers exactly that.
Our story
From frustration to innovation.
Too many small business owners were spending thousands on basic compliance — BAS lodgements, tax returns, and payroll — work that's important but largely repetitive. We saw an opportunity.
By combining modern technology with qualified accountants, we created a service that's faster, more accurate, and dramatically more affordable than traditional firms. No corners cut — just smarter processes.
Today we serve hundreds of Australian businesses, from sole traders to growing teams of 50+. And we're just getting started.
We are not just accountants. We are your trusted business advisors.
Where our experience comes from
United Square has been advising Australian businesses since 2017, and Mark has worked in accounting since 2010.
- Big Four audit trainingMark trained as an auditor at KPMG in Singapore and Australia.
- Large corporates to small businessMultinationals and large corporates at KPMG, Australian small and medium businesses in boutique practice, and a group CFO role in Singapore.
- A Chartered Accountants practiceUnited Square is a Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand practice. Our tax agents are registered with the Tax Practitioners Board, and every engagement carries professional indemnity insurance.
What that adds — Certified business mentor and coach from MIT, top finalist at the MIT Innovation & Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, and judging panel and speaker at the Asian Leadership Conference 2018 and 2019. A founder's perspective on the decisions behind the numbers.
What drives us
Our values
Latest Technology, Real Advantage
We actively adopt the technology moving accounting forward — automation and connected data — and apply it where it earns its keep. Less time on repetitive work, more on advice, and every job still reviewed by a qualified accountant.
Accuracy You Can Trust
We maintain a 99.9% accuracy rate across all client work. Our dual-layer process means errors are caught before they ever become a problem.
Built for Real Businesses
We understand Australian family businesses and SMBs because we've worked with hundreds of them. Our tools are built around how you actually work.
Small Firm Personality, Big Firm Capability
By using technology to automate the repetitive work, we pass the savings directly to you — top-tier capability, delivered by a team that knows your name.
Our team
The people behind your numbers.
Every return, statement and set of accounts that leaves USQ has been prepared and checked by a qualified person. These are the people who do it.
Mark Kim CA
Principal Chartered Accountant
Member, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand — No. 525094
Mark founded United Square in 2017 and leads the practice. He trained as an auditor at KPMG in Singapore and Australia, working with multinationals and large corporates, then moved into boutique practice advising Australian small and medium businesses, and now brings that rigour to businesses that could never afford a big-firm bill. His work sits where accounting meets technology — business planning, tax strategy and risk management on one side, replacing manual processes with systems that do the job properly on the other. A Monash University graduate, he went on to study New Ventures Leadership at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has served as a group CFO in Singapore and as Treasurer of the Korean Society of Victoria. He looks after USQ's Korean-speaking clients in their own language. Away from the desk he's usually snowboarding, skating, tinkering with computers, or somewhere near a guitar and a loud alternative rock record.
Jin Hee Lee
Registered Tax Agent
Registered Tax Agent No. 26332215 · Associate member, CPA Australia
Jin Hee looks after individual and small business returns, from the first set of records through to lodgement. She holds a Master of Professional Accounting from the University of Tasmania, where she finished top of her class, and is an associate member of CPA Australia. She came to accounting from music — she studied Music and Japanese at Monash University and graduated with the Dean's Award as top of her year — and still plays classical piano. A good afternoon involves a cappuccino, something worth listening to, and her cat Bowie.
Wei Leong (Patrick) Chin
Registered Tax Agent
Reg. No. 28128004
Patrick handles compliance for companies, trusts and partnerships — annual accounts, income tax returns, and the activity statements in between. Much of his work involves clients with several entities, where the accounts, the returns and the ASIC obligations all have to line up with each other.
Ryan Lee
Payroll & Compliance
Ryan looks after payroll and the compliance calendar — pay runs, superannuation, Single Touch Payroll reporting and activity statements. With Payday Super now in force his job is largely a matter of timing: superannuation has to reach the employee's fund within seven business days of every pay run, without exception.
Claire Lee
Business Services
Claire works across business services — bookkeeping, bank reconciliations, management reports and year-end accounts. She is usually the one who turns a year of receipts and a bank feed into a set of books the rest of the team can work from.
