Stephen has a degree in Psychology and is a Chartered Accountant qualified with KPMG in London. After three years in industry, he lectured in accounts, tax, statistics, trust and executorship law, systems and data processing, financial management and management accounting - gaining extensive experience of writing, developing and presenting programmes on accountancy and finance. He then joined Ernst & Young as a consultant for two years, leaving them in 1991 to set up his own training business – nearly 30 years ago. Since then he has developed, written and presented financial seminars, training events and computer-based learning packages across many industries in both the public and private sectors, in the UK as well as overseas.

With his engaging style and encyclopaedic knowledge of annual reports, Stephen will refresh your knowledge of basic accounting and then teach you to apply this in your day- to-day work. Learn to interpret financial statements and to identify key areas of concern and focus. Understand the importance of ratios and the relevance of cash versus profit. Gain sufficient confidence to inform and enhance your work in understanding financial statements.