Steve primarily teaches on our Accounting undergraduate programmes. He is Module Leader for four modules on the undergraduate programme – Economics, Financial Management, Business Strategy and Advanced Taxation. In addition, he is Course Leader for MSc Financial Management which runs in Burnley and online. Steve has overseen the introduction of the Peer Mentoring programme onto the Accounting programmes, designed to support first-year students as they start their university journey.
He still freelances for Kaplan and BPP when his UCLan schedule permits which is a great way of remaining up to date with the requirements of the Professional Accounting bodies. He tends to have a view on everything and will gladly give anyone advice/support if they need it. You just have to ask!
Steve attended the University of Sheffield from 1990 to 1993, obtaining a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics. He then joined Ernst & Young in Manchester in their audit department and over the next 3 years obtained experience of a wide variety of organisations. During that time he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. After qualifying he joined The Financial Training Company (now Kaplan Financial) in 1997 to commence a career in education. Since joining he taught on Kaplan’s ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA, AAT, ATT, CTA and CIPFA programmes. He has specialised in Strategic Management and Taxation but also has extensive experience of teaching law, economics, management accounting and basic financial accounting. In 2001 he qualified as a Chartered Tax Advisor.