Name
John Taylor
Title
Freelance author and lecturer
About John Taylor
John is a Chartered Accountant who spent many years advising small and medium-sized businesses across the North of England.
He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers before moving into industry as finance director of a medium sized plc.
He later joined Leeds Beckett University where he specialised in teaching auditing and management accounting on ACCA professional courses, and Forensic Accounting at Masters level.
John is the author of two industry standard textbooks Millichamp – Auditing and Forensic Accounting. He has also written several auditing textbooks for AAT courses.
What Makes John Tick?
John cares about ethical practice and fair dealing in business and requiring businesses to honestly recognise their responsibilities to the environment.
CPD Courses
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Project Financial Management
This course equips the financial project manager or team member with a range of techniques to anticipate and prevent problems throughout the different stages of a project. Discover the right set of tools you need to review, revise, and update your financial models.
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Due Diligence in Buying and Selling a Business
This course explores the process of due diligence from both the buyer and the seller’s perspective. You will learn the importance of due diligence for both parties and will consider the risks involved in buying or selling a business, and what you can do to minimise these.
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Valuation
This course introduces valuation processes and provides an overview of the main methods involved. You’ll explore the use of asset-based, earnings and cash flow-based valuations as well as the complexities involved with non-standard and internet-based businesses. -
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Improving Business Profits
his course takes a comprehensive look at how to improve profitability. Discover the processes necessary for enhancing revenue, optimising costs, eliminating waste and maximising assets and finance. -
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Risk Management
Risks can occur anywhere in an organisation, therefore, integrated and organisation-wide approaches to risk management are key to minimising negative consequences. This course provides an overview to the key elements, processes and approaches to successful risk management.
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Forensic Accounting
This course introduces you to forensic accounting by giving you a level of knowledge and skill that will enable you to understand more about this role, identify fraud and plan appropriate investigations.
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Corporate Resilience and Business Recovery
Businesses that succeed in a crisis are ones that have prepared, building up a resilience against uncertainty. Identify the foundations, structures and management systems needed to help your business to embody resilience during times of instability.
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Corporate Resilience and Decision Making
At times of immense pressure, like now, businesses make decisions that affect their whole future. This course looks at how to optimise our decision making to cope now, and with any future shock that could be thrown at us.
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Preventing Financial Crime
Understand the various types of financial crime and the controls that can be used to limit the opportunities for fraudsters to commit them. Look at how to create the right culture within an organisation to discourage collusion in fraud and encourage reporting and disclosure.