About the authors

Ciaran Walsh was formerly Senior Finance Specialist at the Irish Management Institute, Dublin.

Ciaran trained both as an economist and an accountant (BSc (Econ) London, CIMA) and had 15 years’ industrial experience before joining the academic world.

His work with senior managers over many years has enabled him to develop his own unique approach to training in corporate finance. As a consequence, he has lectured in most European countries, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

His main research interest is to identify and computerise the links that tie corporate growth and capital structure into stockmarket valuation.

Ciaran lives in Dublin and is married with six children.

You can contact Ciaran via email at [email protected]

Stuart Warner is a chartered accountant, author, non-executive adviser and trainer.

Stuart delivers finance-based training programmes around the world to both finance and non-finance professionals. Over his career, Stuart has taught thousands of trainee accountants to pass their professional exams for six different accounting qualifications. He has helped thousands of qualified accountants keep up to date and meet their CPD qualifications as well as training many people from non-finance backgrounds to understand financial matters.

Stuart’s goal is to help businesses increase productivity and profits through innovative and engaging finance training. He is a keen advocate of experiential-based learning using business simulations.

He is the author of Finance Basics (Collins ‘Business Secrets’ series); Making Budgeting Work in the Real World (NelsonCroom); and co-author of Dragons’ Den: Grow Your Business, which supports the BBC’s Dragons’ Den programme.

Stuart is a graduate of management sciences from UMIST and became a chartered accountant whilst working at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

You can find Stuart on LinkedIn or at: www.financial-fluency.co.uk or via email at: [email protected]