REBECCA BENNEYWORTH

Rebecca has been chief accountant of a manufacturing company, National Training Manager for Kidsons (now Baker Tilly) before starting her own practice in Gloucestershire comprising owner managed businesses and small companies. This breadth of experience ensures that her lectures are very practical and that she continues to be very much aware of the needs of the small practice. She lectures extensively for a wide range of professional bodies and commercial organisations, is an author on charity and taxation matters and has written a Business Digest on VAT. Rebecca was voted “Tax Lecturer of the Year” in 2007.  top

LOUISE DUNFORD

Louise has been continuously involved in training and consultancy since 1987, both for professional firms and commercial organisations. Until recently she was an associate senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth mainly involved in postgraduate teaching on MBA and MA Business Law courses and she retains an active relationship with the University. Her professional clients have included both leading accountancy firms and commercial organisations as well as many smaller firms. 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.  top

TIM GOOD

Tim is a director of the Professional Training Partnership and lectures extensively on taxation topics. He is also chairman of PTP Software Ltd. He is the editor of Croner’s Capital Gains Tax Handbook and the author of two of the ICAEW’s Tax Digests, and a contributor to Tolley’s Tax Planning Manuals. He is on the board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Tax Faculty.  top

ANDREW GOTCH

Andrew jointed the Inland Revenue fast stream in 1988 and left as an assistant District Inspector of Taxes in 1993. Since then he has been offering advice and representation to individuals, companies and professional firms throughout the UK. He is the managing director and lead consultant for Professional Practice Ltd, PTP’s consultancy arm. He also lectures widely on all aspects of tax law and practice and has contributed many articles on technical matters to the professional press. Andrew was made a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 2005 and his learned treatise was awarded the CIOT’s Fellowship Thesis Prize and Gold Medal and the Banker’s Taxation Circle Prize. He is a partner of the Professional Training Partnership and is a director of PTP Ltd.  top

DAVID HEATON

David is a partner in the Employers’ Consulting Group of Baker Tilly Tax and Advisory Services LLP. He specialises in helping employers of all sizes and their professional advisors on remuneration, PAYE and NIC matters. He is a longstanding contributor to Tolley’s Tax Planning, the Tax Journal and Accountancy and a former editor of Tolley’s NIC Annual. In 2007 he was appointed chairman of the Employer Taxes Committee of the ICAEW Tax Faculty.  top

STEPHANIE HENSHAW

Stephanie is a Senior Technical Consultant for MacIntryre Hudson LLP where she was previously their Technical Principal (as Stephanie Barber). Her responsibilities have included maintaining and updating control procedures for audit, ethics and regulation purposes as well as providing practical problem solving advice. Stephanie presents a variety of audit and financial accounting courses across the country for district societies, training groups and individual firms of accountants and lawyers. Much in demand on regular update courses, she presents, with John Selwood, the Offa Group Annual Audit and Accounts update in May each year.  top

SHAN HUGHES

Shan is an effective and popular lecturer on the Offa Group’s staff training taxation courses. She joined the tax team at the Mercia Training Group from practice. She lectures extensively throughout the UK on taxation topics and personal professional development.  top

ROBERT JAMIESON

A partner with Mercer & Hole and past president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Robert is much in demand on the lecture circuit for his clear and comprehensive presentations. He is one of the country’s leading experts on Capital Gains Tax. For several years he ran the specialist tax and consultancy division of “Financial Training” before becoming a partner in Adam Broke and Co., which merged with Mercer & Hole in 2001. Robert has written on taxation matters for Sweet and Maxwell and Tolleys Tax and is the author of a Tax Digest for Accountancy Books on Close Company Problems; and one of the original editors of Croner’s Tax Handbooks.  top

FRANCESCA LAGERBERG

Voted “Tax Lecturer of the Year” in 2008 Francesca is a partner in Grant Thornton and head of the firm’s National Tax Office. She is a qualified barrister, a Chartered Accountant and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, and was until early 2007 the chairman of the Tax Faculty of the ICAEW. She is on the editorial board of “Taxation” , a member of the council of the ICAEW and of the Personal Tax Committee of CIOT. Francesca regularly writes about tax matters for the professional and national press, has lectured widely across the UK, and is well known as a broadcast commentator on such programmes as “Moneybox Live” and “Today”.  top

JENNY NELDER

Jenny is a chartered accountant and partner at Bruce Sutherland & Co., an independent firm of unquoted company share and business valuation specialists. She has been involved in valuing shares and businesses for all purposes since 1981 when she left Touche Ross & Co (now Deloitte). She is a member of the Society of Share and Business Valuers. She lectures on share and business valuations for a number of professional bodies and contributes articles on the subject to the professional press.  top

ANDREW PAUL

Andrew trained and qualified with Bishop Fleming and has been with the Mercia training
group since 1999. He lectures on audit and accounts topics and a full range of IT Courses. He is involved in assisting with technical queries. His staff training courses for the Offa Group are always well received.  top

JOHN SELWOOD

John qualified with a small firm and has subsequently been head of a national accountancy network and technical partner for Reeves and Neylan, a top 30 firm. He is now a freelance lecturer and consultant and has written and presented the ICAEW’s Audit and Assurance Faculty roadshows on International Auditing Standards. He has been heavily involved with the Faculty’s work on Ethical Standards of Auditors.  top

BOB TRUNCHION

Bob is a tax principal with MacIntyre Hudson LLP. After service in the Royal Navy he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand. Bob has a wide range of tax knowledge, and is a specialist in a number of industries or niches such as solicitors, farmers and the medical profession. He has a high reputation as a lecturer for various professional bodies. Bob has been a major technical contributor for Legal Network Television and has commented on taxation matters on national radio and television. Bob continues to be involved with clients on both a consultancy and portfolio basis.  top

JANET TAYLOR

Janet is senior training manager heading up the specialist solicitors group at MacIntyre Hudson which deals with all areas of law firm financial reporting and profitability as well as the detailed requirements of the Solicitors Accounts Rules. Janet qualified as an accountant in 1991. An experienced presenter, she lectures both to accountancy professional bodies and to the legal profession.  top

MICHAEL ULRICH

Michael has been involved in training professional accountants for over 20 years. He presents seminars covering a wide range of auditing and accounting topics. In addition he is technical consultant to a number of firms and organisations. As well as general auditing and accounting issues he presents courses on charities, pension schemes, solicitors, property professionals and LLPs. He has his own practice and is a registered auditor.  top

MARK WARD

Mark qualified with Arthur Anderson in 1989, having previously worked in the tax departments of a small and a medium sized firm. Since 1993 he has been lecturing on a wide variety of tax matters. Mark was admitted as a partner of the Professional Training Partnership in January 1999 and is a director of PTP Ltd.  top

JONATHAN WILKEY

Jonathan is a solicitor, lecturer and training consultant who has developed a specialisation in law and the elderly, in particular with regard to community care legislation. He lectures nationally on these matters to accountants, solicitors and financial advisers. A contributor to “Elderly Clients: A Precedent Manual” he is often asked to appear on radio and television to comment on such matters. He is the author of “A Practitioners Guide to Equity Release” published by Jordans in 2007.  top

DEAN WOOTTEN

Dean has been involved in tax training since 1994 and lectures on a wide variety of tax matters. He started his career as a Chartered Accountant, qualifying in 1988 and then as an Associate of the Institute of Taxation in 1991. After qualifying Dean spent a number of years in practice, including over five years at partner level. Together with Chris Jones, Dean was a founder director of Online Tutors Ltd, a company specialising in providing on line CPD training. He lectures widely for professional accountancy bodies and contributes to Tolleys Tax Tutor and Tolleys VAT Update.  top