REBECCA BENNEYWORTH

Rebecca has been chief accountant of a manufacturing company, and 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 is one of the UK’s leading tax lecturers, recent winner of “Tax Lecturer of the Year”. Rebecca is an author on charity and taxation matters and has written a Business Digest on VAT and has recently been appointed editor of Tolley’s Taxwise books.  top

ROGER BRYANT

Roger is one of the UK’s most experienced lecturers on accounting and auditing. After spells in practice, banking and the academic world he now divides his time between lecturing, writing and acting as a consultant for a number of accountancy practices. Since 1980 he has been a regular contributor to the courses programmes of the major accountancy bodies and other leading training organisations. He has written two books, several “Accountants Digests” including “Reporting Requirements for the Small Company” and was on the editorial team of “Current Accounting Law and Practice”.  top

LOUISE DUNFORD

Louise has been continuously involved in training and consultancy since 1987, both for professional firms and commercial organisations. She has been 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 employment law, company law and professional negligence, and has published widely in leading academic and professional journals.  top

TIM GOOD

Tim lectures to professional audiences all over the country. He has the ability to make even the most obscure tax point crystal clear and the most mundane topic entertaining and informative. Tim writes regularly (he is the author of three chapters in Tolley’s Tax Planning) and was previously editor of the TAXline Technical Review published annually by the ICAEW. He founded the PTP Group in 1990 and is a director of PTP Limited and PTP Interactive Limited.  top

STEPHANIE HENSHAW

Stephanie is Technical Standards Partner with Francis Clark and a Senior Technical Consultant for MacIntryre Hudson LLP. Her responsibilities include maintaining and updating quality 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. She also provides technical support and consultancy to individual firms. Stephanie is a member of the board of the ICAEW Financial Reporting Faculty.  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

NEIL INSULL

Neil is a tax trainer and joined MacIntyre Hudson Advisory Services Ltd in 2006. He started his accountancy career with Spicer & Openheim 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. 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 Croners Tax Handbooks.  top

FRANCESCA LAGERBERG

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 COIT. 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

PAT NOWN

Pat joined the Mercia tax team at the end of January 2008. Previously she worked for many years with FTC Kaplan where she was a Tax Product Director for the Midlands. She has lectured both for exam based training and for the accountancy profession as well as being involved in technical writing. An ATT council member for twelve years she is still actively involved at committee level. 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

HOWARD ROBERTS

Howard is a solicitor with Darbys LLP in Oxford. He has over 15 years of commercial experience both in the UK and the Cayman Islands. He has advised a wide range of institutional, corporate and individual clients on all aspects of both contentious and non-contentious insolvency and corporate recovery matters. His clients have included numerous firms of insolvency practitioners, banks, company directors and individuals. 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 is heavily involved with the Faculty’s work on Ethical Standards of Auditors.  top

MIKE TRUMAN

Mike is the editor of “Taxation”  magazine.  He has worked in departments of regional, national and international accountancy firms,  Prior to his appointment as “Taxation” editor in 2004, he was a freelance writer and lecturer on tax.  Mike became a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1996 with a prize-winning thesis on the law of residence for tax purposes.  He gave the 2007 Hardman Memorial lecture for the ICAEW Tax Faculty, asking the question  “Can a fair tax system ever be simple?” Mike frequently commentates on tax matters for TV and radio, including regular appearances on Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show.

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

MICHAEL ULRICH

Michael has been involved in professional training for over 20 years. He presents seminars covering a wide range of auditing and accounting topics. In addition he is a 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 1983 he has been lecturing on a variety of tax matters. Mark was admitted as a partner of the Professional Training Partnership in January 1999 and is a director of PTP Limited.  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. The experience gained whilst in practice enables Dean to focus his lecturing on the practical aspects of the issues presented. 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

JIM YUILL

Jim specialises in worldwide social security matters with particular emphasis on contributions. He lectures widely, writes on social security matters for a number of professional publications, and advises companies how to minimise their contributions liabilities whilst complying with the legislative requirements. He spent 20 years at the DSS where he helped to shape the National Insurance Contribution System and for 14 years was Director of Social Services for a big 4 accountancy firm. He now runs a social security consultancy business, the Yuill Consultancy, based in Fife.  top