Mr Jim O'Hare
Associate Professor 
Contact details
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Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5155
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Email: jo88@le.ac.uk
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Office: Room 0.23, Teaching Centre, Brookfield
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Office hours: Thursday 4.00 pm - 6.00 pm during term time or by appointment only
Personal details
Professional Qualifications and Experience
ICAEW
FCA
Member of ICAEW Careers advisory Network (ICAN), regular presenter at schools and university careers events promoting accountancy as a career
KMG Thomson McLintock (now part of KPMG)
Trainee Chartered Accountant – Audit and Insolvency departments
Financial Training Limited / Kaplan Financial Limited and BPP
Associate Professor in Financial Accounting, Management Accounting and Financial Management for ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA, and AAT professional examinations
Experienced marker for all levels of professional accountancy examinations
Teaching Qualifications
PGCE (FE), and recently awarded Senior Fellowship of the HEA.
External Examiner
NCUK and Edinburgh Napier University
Publications
Analysing Financial Statements for Non-Specialists – first published by Routledge in 2012
Teaching
- EC3057: Management Science
- EC3076: Accounting
- EC3086: Business Law
- EC7095: Financial Statement Analysis
Research
- Using new technology in teaching.
- Usefulness of company financial statements and their use in making economic decisions.
You must apply formally to our Economics PhD programme before we allocate you a supervisor as part of the review process. You do not need to contact our staff separately.
Supervision
Models for predicting corporate failure. Following on from the work of Beaver and Altman of over 30 years ago do their research findings still hold - or are other indicators more relevant today.
Asset replacement decisions. Should a company replace assets frequently, incurring high capital costs but benefiting from good trade in values and low maintenance costs, or keep asses as long as possible. This is a very important decision for companies involved in the transport sector.
