Do you have a content query?          
Click here to email our contributors.

All our e-Lecturers are experienced lecturers or authors and experts in their fields. Based on their extensive knowledge, they select the key topics that you need to keep abreast of and create easy-to-use e-learning modules.

Alan David Buckett, BA (Hons), AIIT
Alan is Head of VAT Services at Day, Smith & Hunter Chartered Accountants & Business Advisers of Maidstone and Rickmansworth.
As a nationally renowned VAT specialist, Alan has been advising on VAT for over 30 years. His clients include a broad range of business types from retailers, farmers, partnerships, international traders, construction and property companies to charities and other non-for-profit organisations. He also works closely with other firms of accountants and solicitors.
Alan regularly negotiates with HM Revenue &Customs on behalf ofclients and has been involved in appeal cases to the VAT and Duties Tribunals, the High Court, the House of Lords and the European Court of Justice.
He has held several key positions within nationally recognised VAT associations including National Chairman, and President, of the VAT Practitioners' Group.
Alan prides himself on excellent technical and communication skills, raising public profile, professional relationships with the tax authorities and most importantly building trusting relationships with clients based on attention to detail and proactive (as well as reactive) advice.

Brian Ogilvie
Brian is a sole practitioner Chartered Certified Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor, based in Brighton & Hove. He worked for a number of small and medium sized general practice firms in the Sussex area for over 15 years, qualifying with Carpenter Box Chartered Accountants in before establishing his own successful tax consultancy practice in 1997.
In addition to practice and consultancy work, Brian is a freelance tax lecturer for, among others, ACCA, CIOT, and BPP.He has also written online CCH e-CPD training courses and is current chairman of the Sussex branch of the CIOT.
Brian demonstrates a lively training style, using illustrative case studies, and drawing on extensive experience of providing tax advice on various areas affecting the SME sector.

Loveth Watson BA (Hons.) ATT
Loveth is a Corporate Tax Specialist, has given advice on a wide variety of taxation issues relating to corporate, transaction-based tax and cross-border transactions. She has extensive tax experience in dealing with corporate tax compliance, corporate tax restructuring and strategic corporation tax planning for singleton companies and groups of companies (including companies listed on the London Stock Exchange). Her other main areas of expertise are advising on EIS & VCT investments, writing tax training and reference materials.

Toni Trevett
Toni is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD) and a member with 15 years standing of the Employment Tribunal judiciary, she was the youngest member appointed to this judicial service. Toni is an author and lecturer for the Graduate CIPD qualification and has worked in HR and Employment Law consultancy for many years. In addition to which she trains and lectures on a range of management, HR skills and employment law based courses, incorporating both practical issues and theory.

Tony Jenkins
Tony Jenkins is a freelance tax lecturer with his own small practice and has over 30 years experience in training and advising clients in all types of businesses gained at senior levels in Robson Rhodes, Horwath Clark Whitehill and Ernst & Young. Tony currently provides monthly tax updates to major firms of accountants and bespoke specialist training to other business organisations on a wide variety of topics. His practical experience with clients gives him a flair for demonstrating the financial value that can be added through rapid and focused technical training. In addition to his own practice Tony provides consultancy advice to other firms of accountants.

Alun Morgan
Alun Morgan Alun specialises in and audit and accounts training, audit quality control visits, and practice management issues. He has a keen eye for the technical issues that will impact on the general practitioner that has been gained from many years working in this area. This means he is well placed to advise on how general practitioners can sensibly implement changes in the field of accounting and auditing standards. His training is therefore focused on what people need to know in their working lives. Most recently, he has been involved in putting across the views of practising members on the ethical standards for auditors and UITF 40.
This practical slant on technical areas comes across well in his presentations.
Up until June 2007 he sat on the council of the ICAEW, and currently sits on its Practice Society committee and Financial Reporting committee.

David Duvall MA, FCA
David read Classics at Cambridge and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1973 with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (now KPMG). He then worked as a tutor for Financial Training in London and subsequently for ATC Thames Valley, where he was client liaison director. He is now Training Manager at Chantrey Vellacott DFK, where he is responsible for co-ordinating student training as well as external and internal lecturing. David was President of the Thames Valley Society of Chartered Accountants in 1998/99 and is currently chairman of the society's Education and Training committee.

Don Bawtree.
Don Bawtree is a partner with the Charities Specialist Unit at BDO Stoy Hayward, where he acts for a range of national and local charitable clients. He lectures extensively and is a regular contributor to the press on matters affecting the voluntary sector. He published the Charity SORP Compliance Checklist with NGO Finance. In his spare time he is treasurer to local charity. Don was with Neville Russell for ten years, having previously been with Coopers & Lybrand in London and Nairobi, in audit and management consultancy. Don joined BDO Stoy Hayward as a charity audit partner in April 1996. He is charity course director for the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of the Charity Finance Directors' Group. He writes and lectures regularly and has published a guide to the SORP. Don was a member of a Home Office working party dealing with the implementation of Part VI of the Charities Act 1993. He is honorary treasurer of a number of charities and leader of a youth group. The firm acts as auditors to some 300 charities, both local and national.

Louise Dunford.
Louise LLM LLB Barrister, Cert Ed. has been continuously involved in training and consultancy, both for professional firms and for commercial organisations since 1987. Louise specialises mainly in aspects of practical employment law, company law and on professional
negligence, and has published widely in leading academic and professional journals.

Ralph Tiffin BSc FCA AMIMechE.
Ralph is principal of McLachlan+Tiffin, chartered accountants and registered auditors. The practice has a wide range of clients and Ralph deals mainly with the larger audit clients. Longstanding clients include ship owning and ship management companies.
Ralph also acts as consultant to many companies in the UK and overseas on subjects ranging from project appraisal, budgetary control systems through to fraud prevention. He act as part time FD to a Rail Consultancy and is a public member of Network Rail. Recent projects have included an appraisal of an innovative lightweight tram system and fraud awareness for an HM government department.
Ralph spends approx one third of his time lecturing on accounting topics, often related to transport and engineering sectors - project appraisal and management issues. Approx 12 weeks a year is spent on lecturing and consultancy on similar topics in the Middle and Far East.
He is author of a range of texts on project appraisal, accounting and auditing. All are texts aimed at understanding and the practical implementation of techniques for better business management.

Ros Martin
Ros was an Inland Revenue fully trained Inspector until 2000. Since then she has been a consultant and lecturer in direct tax and Stamp Duty/SDLT, speaking and advising on a wide range of issues. These include tax planning for large and small businesses and individuals, and dealing with Inland Revenue enquiries and procedural aspects of dealings with the Inland Revenue.

Stephen Ward
Stephen is Managing Director of Premier Financial Solutions (UK) Limited and also a director of Pilgrim Trustee Services Ltd. He has been involved in the pensions industry since the beginning of his career in 1976 and now regularly speaks at conferences on pensions matters. He has acted as an examiner for a number of professional bodies and is currently an examiner for the Pensions Management Institute. He is currently a member of the Pensions Industry Working Group, which is concerned with the practical implementation of pension simplification.

Paul Robbins BA (Hons) ACA CTA
Paul worked in the company tax practices of Arthur Andersen and Coopers and Lybrand after he graduated. He then joined CCH in 1994 and worked as a senior technical editor before taking on various product development roles.
He now has overall responsibility for the quality of CCH’s tax products.

Sarah Laing CTA
Sarah is a director of CPE Consulting Ltd, an Oxfordshire-based company which provides training and technical writing services for the tax and accountancy profession.
She has been writing professionally since joining CCH in 1998 as a senior technical editor, contributing to a range of highly-regarded publications including the British Tax Reporter, Taxes, the Red and Green legislation volumes, Hardman’s and many others.
She became publishing manager for the tax and accounting portfolio in 2001 and then went on to help run CCH Seminars.
She originally worked for the Inland Revenue in Newbury and Swindon Tax Offices, before moving into practice in 1991. She has worked for both small and ‘Big 4’ firms.

Liz Harris
Liz works with organisations to increase their competitive edge by transforming the way they talk to customers and colleagues. Liz is an experienced training professional who has been designing and delivering learner-centred training for over 16 years. Her lively interactive style is popular with participants at all levels of an organisation, as she remains focused on the application of the learning in the workplace.
Liz specialises in the design and delivery of communication skills programmes. These programmes are delivered in a workshop format, in self-study materials (either paper-based or web-based) as well as in one to one coaching. Her range of specialist topics fall under the broad heading of ‘communication skills’ and include: Powerful Presentation Skills. Train the Trainer, Building Productive Teams, First Time Team Leader, Performance Management, Appraisal Interviewing, More Effective Meetings, Delivering Customer Excellence, Delivering Customer Excellence on the Telephone, Increasing Your Assertiveness.
Liz has worked with clients in a wide range of sectors including, Retail and Investment Banking, Publishing, IT, Supply & Logistics, Airlines, Engineering, Point of Sale & Merchandising, and Media. A full list of the areas Liz covers can be found at www.alchemytraininguk.com.

Valerie Steward BSc ACA FCCA , Director, VS Consultancy Limited
Val has worked with accountancy practices for over 20 years, helping them to develop their businesses and remain compliant. She is the author and co-author of a number of technical guides and work programmes including the CCH Industry Audit and Accounting Guide on Clubs and Associations, the Practice Society Anti-Money Laundering Procedures and Training Manual and the ACCA Audit Programmes and International Audit Programmes. She enjoys helping firms to develop, advising on training and staffing policy and all aspects of practice management. Valerie also lectures widely on auditing, management skills and assurance services.

Neil Insull
Neil is a tax trainer and joined MacIntyre Advisory Services Ltd in 2006. He started his accountancy career with Spicer & Oppenheim before moving into a tax role at Ernst & Young for four years. The financial services industry then beckoned and Neil spent nearly fifteen years working in-house as a corporate tax manager for a couple of large insurance and fund management groups. He now provides training on a broad range of tax areas for accountants, lawyers and in-house finance and tax professionals.

Dr Stephen Hill, e-Crime and Fraud Manager, Chantrey Vellacott
Stephen is our e-Crime & Fraud Manager, specialising in Internet fraud awareness (Cybercrime), identity theft, IT Security, training and risk management. He performs IT systems reviews for a number of clients and works on guides to fraud detection and prevention for many small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and Charities. He has also developed and delivered a series of ‘cybercrime’ and ‘e-fraud’ courses aimed at training UK police forces, private sector fraud units and major world banks.
Stephen lectures widely on Fraud Awareness particularly on Identity Theft and Internet Fraud. He speaks regularly at conferences for the Association for Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), a worldwide organisation dedicated to education in fighting fraud.
Stephen is a Director and Trustee of the ICAEW Fraud Advisory Panel and sits on the Cybercrime working group with colleagues from SOCA, Home Office and the private sector. He is also an Associate of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, a member of the North East and Eastern Fraud Forum and a member of the steering committee of the London Fraud Forum. Stephen is an associate of the Institute of IT Trainers and is qualified as a TAP training consultant. He has written in several well known publications including The Sunday Times, Accountancy Magazine, FS Focus, Third Sector and the Solicitors Journal and commented on Radio 5 Live.