Staff profiles
Neil Fletcher
BSc (Hons), PGCE, ACA
Phone 0114 225 5072
E-mail n.j.fletcher@shu.ac.uk
Research centres and institutes associated with
Centre for Business and Management, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Subject areas
- financial modelling
- corporate governance
- reporting and communication
Research interests
- corporate governance - particularly in how to optimise the level of control and reporting in small and medium sized organisations
- financial reporting and modelling - how boards, senior managers and stakeholders respond to historical and prospective financial information
Profile
Neil Fletcher is a chartered accountant and holds a first degree in mathematics. Prior to becoming a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam, he held a variety of progressively more senior roles in financial management within the South Yorkshire marketplace.
His interest in corporate governance was ignited whilst he was the finance director of Manor and Castle Development Trust Ltd, a £10+ million third sector organisation.
As a corporate finance consultant working for PKF, one of the UK's leading accounting firms, he advised and was involved in a variety of sophisticated financial transactions. His particular expertise being the creation and review of the financial models used to explore potential outcomes of a business decision or transaction.
Feedback on his work includes comments such as, 'he explained some very difficult and complicated financial ideas in a way that I could explain', 'his analysis is independent, analytical and rigorous', and, 'he created and tested a financial model that I could not have developed - even with all my experience'.
Teaching interests
- corporate governance
- financial and management accounting
- reporting and communication
- analytical business techniques
Research and consultancy projects
Financial modelling advice to boards, senior managers and key stakeholders
- £5 million property portfolio re-structure - third sector commercial property
- £12 million group re-structure - charitable group
- £9 million capital expenditure review - leisure sector
- £30 million group re-financing - private equity backed industrial
- £1 million management buy in - industrial services
Corporate governance
- stakeholder reporting advice - charity
- internal control review - third sector
- financial accountability and transparency training - Uganda
