Staff profile

David worked in industry and commerce for 13 years prior to academia and qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant. A North American oilfield service company and a London based property company were his principal employers for this period.

He started his academic career at the University of West London and then progressed to a private accounting college in Manchester thereafter. He then spent 9 years working at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, one of South Africa’s top universities for accounting studies.

He returned from South Africa to spend 10 years at London South Bank University where he specialised in teaching Financial Reporting and Taxation. During this period, he also worked in the private sector again, this time on a part-time basis lecturing at various branches of First Intuition college.

He is the joint author of an International Financial Reporting textbook in South Africa, aimed at students preparing for the South African Chartered Accountancy exams – now in its 10^th edition and prescribed by several South African Universities.

He also spent 5 years as a joint examiner for the AAT – developing online exam material for their Level 4 Financial Statements module, and was also the examiner for the ICSA Financial Reporting & Analysis module for a 4 year period.

He was nominated for the ‘Best Public Sector Lecturer’ in the 2018 PQ Magazine awards

David joined the Business School in September 2018 and teaches on a range of undergraduate and post graduate studies.

Mini-Biography

David is a Chartered Certified Accountant and joined the Business School in September 2018. He joined from London South Bank University and prior to that was at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Durban, South Africa. David has also worked in private accountancy colleges and was an examiner for both the AAT and the ICSA. He spent 13 years in industry before commencing academic life.

• Accounting Education
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