Being the founder and a former partner of Richard A. Bobb Chartered Accountants since 1982, Richard possesses over 28 years of experience in the accounting profession, providing a variety of domestic and international taxation consultancy and advisory work.

He was the former chairman and is still a current member of the Joint Legislation Review Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) and CPA Australia as well as being a member of the Legislation Review Board (a subsidiary entity of the Australian Accounting Research Foundation) since 1998 he now chairs that body. Richard also holds concurrent fellow memberships of the Taxation Institute of Australia and Hong Kong, is a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and an associate of the Securities Institute of Australia.

He has contributed extensively to professional journals such as the Butterworths Loose Leaf Taxation Service, NSW Law Society Journal, ICAA Journal "Charter", Taxation in Australia Journal, Hong Kong Taxation Institute Bulletin and has been a regular speaker at seminars in Hong Kong for the Hong Kong Society of Accountants, HK ICAA (Hong Kong Group) and the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong.