Since qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1991, he has acquired more than 27 years of experience of Higher Education teaching, particularly with non-specialist students and delivering courses for senior managers and entrepreneurs.
His teaching interests cover all aspects of accounting and finance but with a particular interest in ‘shareholder value management.’ A subject on which he has published a number of books and articles. He has extensive experience in developing and delivering e-learning and virtual classroom solutions.
Matt delivers several accounting modules for Aston’s MBA, MSc and UG programmes, and has also contributed to programmes run by other Business Schools including Loughborough, Queens University Belfast, Saïd and Warwick in the UK and Emlyon and Rouen in France.
Matt specialises in technology-based learning, gamification and simulations. From 2016 to 2018 he led the ‘Financial Education for Future Entrepreneurs’ (FEFE) project funded by the European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (Erasmus+) programme of the European Union, which involved a partnership of six organisations based in Austria, Cyprus, Spain and the UK. The main output of this project is ‘Count FEFE’, a mobile digital game for developing accounting and finance skills for business which is available in English, German, Greek and Spanish. He has also led the development of ‘Accounting Bissim.’ A business simulation specially designed to support accounting courses.
Matt has extensive experience of working with the leaders of small businesses, particularly through his involvement in the prestigious Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Programme, currently as Finance faculty lead for the UK National Programme and formerly as Deputy Director for the Programme which ran in the Midlands region.
He has delivered courses for private, public and not-for-profit organisations across a range of sectors, and his international experience includes teaching assignments in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Libya, Netherlands, Oman, South Africa, Tunisia, Vietnam and the United States. Matt has recently led the creation of a special interest group, ‘Games and Simulations in Accounting and Finance Education’ (GSAFE), which promotes the use of these pedagogies across the Higher Education sector and beyond.