John Taylor
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
10 Key Risks for Your Organisation
If your organisation is aware of the risks it faces, it will have a better chance of mitigating their potential negative impacts. This bites explores 10 key risks organisations of all sizes and in all sectors should be prepared for.
10 Pricing Strategies for Your Organisation
Setting the right price for your products and services involves striking a balance between maximising profits and staying competitive. This bite explores 10 pricing strategies to help you get it right.
10 Reasons Mergers and Acquisitions Fail
Those who have been involved in a merger or acquisition deal will know there's a lot that can potentially go wrong. Use this bite to discover ten reasons why they fail and how you could mitigate key risks with future deals.
10 Steps to Buying and Selling a Business
Buying or selling a business can be a long process, especially for finance professionals. This bite explores the process in 10 steps, so you can identify where you might be of help to your organisation or clients.
4 Key Approaches to Budgeting
Incremental budgeting is the most widely used approach across organisations. But is it always the best? This bite gives an overview of both traditional and non-standard methods of budgeting, so you can consider the most suitable for your business.
4 Steps to Building Trust in Professional Relationships
How do you ensure your clients or colleagues trust what you say? This bite considers four areas you need to focus on to develop and maintain trust in your professional relationships.
6 Ways to Build a Culture of Ethical Compliance
Regardless of the size of your organisation, everyone must comply with ethical standards. But how can you build a culture that encourages this? Find out six simple steps you could take with this bite.
8 Tips for Estimating Project Costs
Accountants involved in project management will be expected to produce cost estimates for the various tasks and activities and an overall project budget. Here we cover tips for generating cost estimates and reliable figures.
9 Ways to Optimise Decision Making in Your Organisation
Bad decisions can have significant and potentially costly consequences. Do you think your organisation has an effective decision making process, or is there room for improvement? Here we explore nine ways to optimise decision making.