Education & Qualifications


29 January 1994(Date Awarded)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Tourism & Management

The University of Derby

Six month course covering management issues related to the tourism industry, followed by a six week placement in the tourism sector with Melton Borough Council, where I produced a self-guided walk leaflet for Melton Mowbray. The course was assessed on the completion of assignments for each subject, which would involve any combination of research, working in groups, report writing and presentations. The subject matter split between tourism (marketing, ecological effects, tourism flows etc) and management skills (personal, law, accounting etc).


1 December 1990(Date Admitted)

Associated Chartered Accountant

I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, which is the largest accountancy professional body in the United Kingdom. The members are primarily in public practice (providing accountancy services to individuals and businesses), but also has members in the public and commercial sector.

Admitted to the membership after successfully passing both sets of the Institute’s Professional Examinations:

  1. PE1 November 1988
  2. PE2 July 1990

7 July 1987(Date Awarded)

BA (Hons) Accountancy Studies

The University of Huddersfield

(Formerly The Polytechnic, Huddersfield)

Awarded a 2(ii) degree after completing a 3 year full-time course, including a final year dissertation, which examined the implications of information technology on an accountancy degree course and the profession in general at the end of the 1980's.