Our Lecturers

Jodie Lucas

ICAEW Qualified

Qualified as ACA at the age of 22
After leaving audit practice in 2000, Jodie worked for Kaplan Financial for 16 years as an integral part of their Birmingham tutoring team – teaching ICAEW, ACCA and CIMA studies. She left Kaplan in search of some up-to-date practical experience to reinforce and complement her classroom delivery
Jodie established her own company soon after and has built a portfolio of varied clients, dividing her time and energy between her continued passion for freelance lecturing for a number of providers in the UK and Dubai; and contract audit and advisory work for Deloitte
She is enthusiastic and driven to help students to understand, apply and retain their technical knowledge gained from her subjects, not only to enable students to pass exams but to become better prepared in the work place
She also remains involved with the ACCA as a writer of CBE material and has been involved in marking for the ACCAs’ equivalent Audit and Assurance paper

Sima Lad

ICAEW Qualified, BA (1st Class Hons)

Contributed towards the delivery and planning of small and large group teaching sessions across the ACA, ACCA and AAT qualifications – delivery in the UK and Cyprus.She motivates students to perform in their exams to the very best of their abilities by incorporating a range of learning techniques into lessons. Pro-active with both students and employers by making proposals for improved performance in examinations, focusing on exam technique and identifying weak areas

Key achievements

Secured the 2014 Global Kaplan Leadership Awards for “Outstanding Faculty”
Regionally shortlisted for the “2014 Young Person in Business” DNLCC award
Nationally shortlisted as PQ magazine “2013 Lecturer of the year”

Samantha Griffiths

BSc (Hons), EMBA, FCCA

Specialises in Board training and the narrative reporting landscape, with emphasis on integrated reporting and developing and communicating board effectiveness. She started her career in a large international bank, transitioned to a role in Treasury for a large multinational engineering business, before several years working at the London Stock Exchange. This has been followed by an extensive consulting and training career, working alongside boards and senior management teams at many high-profile organisations
Over the years, Samantha has worked with boards and their corporate advisors to review hundreds of annual reports and corporate communications. The focus of her work has been on developing and articulating the value proposition of organisations to their various stakeholders. Consulting assignments have included investor outreach programmes, perception studies, board evaluations, annual report development, key message development, best practice benchmarking and board effectiveness training. She has led the development of internationally award winning annual reports and governance practices. Her work has also involved her working alongside organisations involved in the FRC’s Financial Reporting Lab’s Business Model initiative
Samantha’s practical experience is complemented by her academic links to a variety of UK institutions. She frequently delivers lectures, seminars and master classes on topics including Strategy, Governance, Risk and Ethics
Samantha is a Fellow of the ACCA and has an Executive MBA from Manchester Business School. She is currently executive director of Sagenius Limited, a niche advisory firm and is a member of the Institute of Directors

Alan Ng

FCA Singapore, FCCA, M.Sc. in Finance

Holds two Master degrees in two different fields – M.Sc. in Finance from National University of Ireland and M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Beijing Normal University
Alan has ten years of accounting and finance work experience spanning across different industries from trading, banking, to computers and diesel engines firms. After a few years into management, Alan discovered his passionate for teaching. Teaching reaches out to more people, helping them prepare for their future. At the same time, the trainer gets to upkeep the technical knowledge. Alan decided to be full time trainer in 1999
Alan has been teaching Accounting and Finance subjects at the certificate, diploma, higher education and professional levels for more than eighteen years. With his dedicated teaching and commitment, Alan Ng received good comments from students
Alan believes that Learning is an opportunity and Teaching is a rewarding career. Every learner can flourish if appropriately challenged and supported

Michelle Chow

ICAEW Qualified

Graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc in Economics. She qualified as ACA within the audit practice of KPMG in the UK. She has over 15 years of work experience within external audit, transaction services, financial analysis, financial reporting, management accounting, budgeting and forecasting. Her experience is mainly in large multinational corporations, and more recently within private equity, in a variety of industries
The breadth of her finance experience in corporate advisory as well as internal finance functions helps with applying the technical knowledge in the ACA training to real life examples in the work place. She is enthusiastic and driven to help students understand and apply the technical training to pass their exams and also to be prepared for real life application in the work place

Fung Chee Kong

CA Singapore

Graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) degree
Started his career with Arthur Andersen & Co, an international public accounting firm. Undertook numerous audit and assurance engagements for companies in the insurance, services, hospitality, retail and manufacturing sectors
Graduated from The London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) with a Master of Science degree and started his lecturing career with a Polytechnic teaching auditing and assurance modules
Left the Polytechnic and joined a private educational institution in January 2000. Started his full-time lecturing circuit conducting preparatory and revision courses for professional accountancy exams in Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hong Kong and major cities in China. From 2002 to 2017, he was also the trainer for the Assurance module of the Hong Kong QP exams for PwC and Deloitte Hong Kong offices

Ian Lim

FCCA

Holds a Master of Science in Accounting and Financial Management from University of Gloucestershire
Fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Chartered Accountants in Malaysia
Specialise in financial reporting, financial management and performance management related subjects
Lectured internationally in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Brunei and Africa
Consistently producing prize winners worldwide in the professional examinations