1st Class - Faculty of Finance & Accountancy Tutors
Susan Hoof FCMA, MAAT, PGCE
Director of Academics, Accountancy Programme Director and Head of Management Accounting Faculty
A member of CIMA council, Susan has had many years of commercial experience including roles at the Ministry of Defence. She has vast teaching experience in ACCA + CIMA courses in Management Accounting, Business Maths and Information Technology as well as commercial courses.
Francis Braganza
Francis has valuable experience teaching Financial Reporting worldwide for more than 20 years. He was awarded National Lecturer of the Year in 2004 by PQ Magazine and received nominations by FTC for Lecturer of the year in 2005 and 2007. ACCA – F3 & F7
After working as an accountancy practitioner for 7 years, principally with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Martin gained a wealth of knowledge and is considered an expert in audit. Martin began teaching in 1994 and was a founder partner in FTC. ACCA – F8 & P2
Robert began teaching in 1990 and his specialist areas are management and cost accounting along with financial management. He is passionate about his subject areas and this is shown in his teaching methods and learning strategies. ACCA – F2, F5, F9
Paul has been teaching for 11 years and remains the joint youngest ever District Society President for the ICAEW (Bucks & Herts, Bedfordshire for 2001/2002). Paul specialises in corporate governance and audit and has also taught financial reporting. ACCA - F8, P1, P7
David began his career as a Secondary and Primary school teacher and joined the ACCA in their education department after briefly working as an accountant. David has been lecturing since 1997. ACCA – F1 P3
Christine is an experienced senior manager and lecturer, and a professionally qualified accountant. She has work and lecturing experience in accounting, human resources and general management. Christine worked for 18 years at BPP, where she held a number of senior positions including Chief Executive of the BPP Malpas division. While taking care of her general management duties, Christine taught the ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW and ATT at BPP. She also taught on Matsers degree courses and wrote materials and exams for the programme.
David Jeremy Silverman, SAGE Group plc, Associate Partner
Sage trainer
An Associate Partner at SAGE Group plc, David has over 20 years’ experience as a consultant in SAGE business software. He runs his own company consulting to a wide scope of high profile clients on SAGE, and implementing audit and internal controls.
After qualifying as a Management Accountant, Hafeez has worked for various prestigious organisations in the health, human resources and textile sectors. He has taught professional accountancy courses as a freelance tutor in public and private sector organisations. Hafeez worked as mentor for ACCA-Oxford Brookes degree projects, and is a consultant to telemedia companies.
John Hemming, FCA, Cert. Ed
Advanced Taxation, Auditing, Financial Accounting
John has over 30 years’ experience as a tax, audit and general accounting practitioner. For the last seventeen years John has been lecturing extensively, and was a member of the academic board at a College in the West Midlands.
Marcus graduated with first class honours from Oxford University in 1971 and worked for thirty years in a wide variety of positions in banking and finance, including a six-year period as treasurer of a German-based foreign trade bank, before devoting his time exclusively to training, lecturing and writing from 2001 onwards. He is active as a university lecturer specialising in finance for MBA programmes with leading Universities including UK’s Open University Business School MBA programme, University of London and Grenoble Graduate School of Management and has undertaken assignments for Georgetown University (Washington DC).
After gaining his MA in Engineering at Cambridge University, Stephen Joined KPMG, providing Financial Modelling consulting to (among others): Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, BBC, RBS, and Bank of Scotland. He left KPMG to join UBS Warburg as Associate Director, providing training in financial modelling. Stephen is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Feroza Cooper, BA, MSc, CPA
Finance and Accounting Faculty
Since 1993 Feroza has been delivering consultancy projects on UK and US individual and corporate taxation, expatriate tax and accountancy work performed in United Kingdom, United States, Singapore and India. These projects include subcontract assignments from professional accounting firms and corporate training firms. Client base includes diverse industry sectors such as manufacturing, retailing and services. Feroza also provides executive training in accounting and finance to international corporations from West Africa, Middle East and Far East.
Fred has been working and teaching in many business schools and universities, including London Metropolitan University, etc. After working for Financial Business and Training Consultants Ltd, Fred is working for Central College in London as a Director of professional courses.
Dr. Raju Chinthalapati, PhD
Finance and Accounting Faculty
Raju is a PHD graduate from London School of Economics. He has vast amount of teaching and working experience in computer science and mathematics. He has published many journal and conference paper in those areas. Also as a junior member in Isaac Newton institute for Mathematical Science at Cambridge University, he was teaching in many well known business school, such as I.I.Sc and London School of Economics.
Ken Preece
Working as a freelance lecturer for the past 20 years, Ken has a wealth of knowledge and for many years he regularly presented Technical Update lectures for professional firms, companies and District Societies of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
