Authors
Osborne Books has an experienced team of successful authors. For profiles of our authors, please see below.If you are interested in writing for Osborne Books and have an idea for a book or resource, please download our author pack below.
Frank Adcock
Frank Adcock has had fourteen years experience in commercial marketing, working for four different businesses, including the Mars Group. Frank was also Marketing Director of New Education Press Limited for twelve years. More recently he has worked as a Business and Management lecturer in FE Colleges where he has taught marketing on a variety of vocational business courses.
Janet Brammer
Janet Brammer has over ten years' experience lecturing on AAT and ACCA accountancy courses at Norwich City College. She is a Certified Accountant and worked in accountancy practice for a number of years. She has also tutored for the Open University.
David Cox
David Cox has more than twenty years' experience teaching accountancy students over a wide range of levels. Formerly with the Management and Professional Studies Department at Worcester College of Technology, he now lectures on a freelance basis and carries out educational consultancy work in accountancy studies. He is author and joint author of a number of textbooks in the areas of accounting, finance and banking.
Michael Fardon
Michael Fardon has extensive teaching experience of a wide range of banking, business and accountancy courses at Worcester College of Technology. He now specialises in writing business and financial texts - including AS Applied Business for Edexcel and Foundation Accounting for Osborne Books, where he is currently General Editor. He is also an educational consultant and has worked extensively in the areas of Key Skills and curriculum development.
Chris Nuttall
Chris Nuttall is a freelance lecturer in Business Studies and an established writer for vocational Business courses. His publications include Business for Intermediate GNVQ (Collins, 2000) and GCSE Business Studies, an Edexcel-endorsed text published by Cambridge University Press in 2001.
Jo Osborne
Jo Osborne is a Chartered Accountant who trained with Ernst & Young in their London office. She then moved to Cable & Wireless where she spent two years in their internal audit department before moving into an investment appraisal role. Jo has taught AAT at Hillingdon College and more recently at Worcester College of Technology where she is AAT Course Co-ordinator.
Aubrey Penning
Aubrey Penning has over twenty years experience of teaching accountancy on a variety of courses in Worcester and Gwent. He is a Certified Accountant, and before his move into full-time teaching he worked at various times for the health service, a housing association and a chemical supplier.
Roger Petheram
Roger Petheram has acted as consultant for most of Osborne Books' accounting texts and has provided invaluable help in reading, checking and providing student activities. Roger is a senior accounting lecturer at Worcester College of Technology. In 2009 Roger won the PQ Magazine award for Public Sector Lecturer of the Year.
John Prokopiw
John Prokopiw is lecturer in Management and Business Studies at Worcester College of Technology where he is the Course Director for the Institute of Personnel and Development programmes. He has also fulfilled various roles at the Institute of Personnel and Development where he is currently an External Assessor. John has been a writer for Osborne Books for a number of years, having contributed the Human Resource Management content for a wide variety of business books.
Sheila Robinson
Sheila Robinson taught accountancy and business studies as a Senior Lecturer at Stockport College of Technology for over twenty years. She is a practising accountant and consultant and recently retired as a council member and director of a professional accountancy body. She has a wide experience as an accountancy author both in the UK and overseas.
John Taylor
John Taylor is a Chartered Accountant who spent many years in professional practice advising small and medium sized businesses before becoming the Financial Director of a Leeds-based public limited company. John now works at Leeds Metropolitan University where he specialises in teaching management accounting and auditing on a range of professional courses.
Bob Thomas
Prior to moving into education, Bob worked in the Tax Department of the London office of one of the largest firms of accountants, including a period as Tax Research Manager and Company Client Manager. He then held a number of positions at the University of Wales, Newport, ending as Associate Dean of the Newport Business School. Since leaving, Bob has been a professional body examiner and has worked, both within the UK and overseas, as a lecturer, author and consultant for professional bodies, universities and private organisations.