The Finance for Non-Financial Managers course is delivered by a highly experienced Chartered Accountant. He qualified in 1987 with Gilberts, a six-partner accountancy firm, and went on to join the Business Development Group at Binder Hamlyn after completing an accountancy foundation course that same year. His extensive background brings practical insight and relevance to Redcliffe Training courses.
In 1990, he became a trainer with a prominent training company, focusing on financial and management accounting exam programmes. Over the next four years, he taught auditing, financial reporting, and taxation for ACA, ACCA, CIMA, and AAT exams, as well as the ACA multi-disciplinary case study. He primarily taught full-time courses for Deloitte, PWC, and EY, and was responsible for the ACA final-level auditing paper.
Our finance for non-financial managers training is led by an educator of exceptional calibre, who became Director of Post-Examination CPD Training for Accountants in 1993. In this role, he was responsible for developing financial training programmes for non-accountants, with a particular focus on solicitors. Around the same time, he began training in International Accounting Standards, initially for Ernst & Young’s non-UK-based professional staff across Europe. His expertise in these global standards allowed him to guide multinational teams through complex regulatory frameworks, enhancing their understanding and compliance.
Since 1998, he has been training on a freelance basis, concentrating on finance-based subjects for accountants and non-accountants. He also specialises in training on IFRS and US accounting standards and, for the past 20 years, has presented throughout Europe on both of these subjects.
Alongside finance training for non-financial managers, our specialist has considerable experience in the following topics:
- Accounting for financial instruments and insurance contracts
- IFRS reporting issues for energy and pharmaceutical businesses
- Completion accounts and the role of financial standards in corporate finance transactions
- Accounting for business combinations – mergers, acquisitions and all joint and special purpose arrangements.