FWA Eagar&Co is one of the oldest accounting firms in the northern beaches region and since 2004 has been operating under Phillip Browne FCA.

FWA Eagar&Co is located in a buildling from the 1940s era in Chancery Arcade between Whistler Street and Belgrave Street, Manly. The area around and between both these streets has been maintained carefully to keep and display the history that it holds. The FWA Eagar&Co offices have been tastefully renovated to incorporate the history and old style of the building. The building still contains the safes, books and other materials from the 1920s that were first pruchased by Mr Frank William Austin Eagar.

Frank William Austin Eagar started the firm in about 1922. He returned to the Manly area after fighting in the South African Boer War from 1899 - 1902. Frank was born in 1880 of Edward George Eagar and Jane Drake, and was the 8th of 12 children in the family. He married Marguerite Wood Moore in 1911 in Manly, NSW. He died on the 1 October 1963 and Marguerite on the 5 December 1959. Frank was appointed Justice of the Peace 3 in June 1921. (Source: Colonial Litigant Extraordinaire - The Edward Eagar Story, Layman, Attorney, merchant and Lobbyist. By Kevin Lewis Smith, Published 1996 by Fast Books. Page 146)

The firm has had many partners over the years, including most recently Eric Atkinson, Neville Higham, Walter Knox and Ross McKissock. Walter Knox is the father of Robert Knox who worked at FWA Eagar&Co for the past 40 years. Robert Knox retired from the firm in February 2007.