Newcastle University

Background

After taking my degree at Kings College London I joined a small firm of chartered accountants and qualified as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) in 1993. I then joined KPMG, specialising in corporate tax, before joining BPP, a professional training company in 1995. I was appointed the managing director of BPP Newcastle in 1997 and successfully established the new branch over the next 5 years. In 2003 I joined Newcastle University.

Roles and Responsibilities

Chair of Board of Examiners for BA (Hons) Business Accounting and Finance degree.

Module leader for ACC1051, Introduction to Professional Practice and ACC3052 Taxation 

Qualifications

1989 - BSc Joint Honours - Physiology and Pharmacology - Kings College London
1993 - ACA - Qualified as a chartered accountant in 1993

2004 - Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice - Newcastle University 

Previous Positions

1996 - 2002 - Managing Director BPP Newcastle Ltd
1993 - 1995 - Corporate tax advisor, KPMG Hull and Leeds

Memberships

ICAEW member since 1993
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2006

Informal Interests

Golf, CAMRA and Nottingham Forest Football Club

Research Interests

Accounting history, social accounting, historical accounting in healthcare, control within organisations, accounting utalitarianism.

Teaching and learning within accountancy education; improving efficiency and effectiveness of face to face and virtual learning. 

Current Work

Second paper, "The Interaction of managerial effectiveness and social accountability in the costing procedures of the Newcastle Infirmary" to be submitted Spring 2011

Applying the ideas of Foucault, Bentham etc to management and control within voluntary hospitals in the nineteenth century.

The use of a presentation and case study to promote understanding of key audit principles in introductory undergraduate modules.

Continuing part time PhD on the role of accounting in the nineteenth century - an economic tool or a force behind organisational and societal change  

Future Research

To identify within voluntary hospitals the key factors in the movement away from the letter system of entry to one of free for all.

To continue with my PhD

The efficient and effective academic. Adding value to maximise the benifit of face to face contact, a key scarce resource.  

Esteem Indicators

Won £500 best paper award at the Management History Research Group Workshop in July 2008 for paper on accounting and the moral economy of illness

Keywords

Accounting history, social accounting,  healthcare finance, accounting education, case studies

Undergraduate Teaching

ACC1051 - Introduction to Professional Practice
ACC3052 - Taxation
ACC4051 - Contemporary Issues in A&F - supervisor

• Holden A, Funnell W, Oldroyd D. Accounting and the moral economy of illness in Victorian England: the Newcastle Infirmary. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 2009, 22(4), 525-552.