Accounting For Non Accountants

Professor Robert Deutsch is currently a Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Professor of Taxation in the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. He holds degrees in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney and a Master of Laws from Cambridge University.Professor Deutsch has worked extensively in academia and the private sector (Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Henry Davis York and KPMG) and has written widely in tax, accounting and related areas. His authorship includes many chapters of the Australian Tax Handbook, the Guidebook to International Tax and Principles and Practice of Double Tax Agreements. He has also written and spoken on accounting issues especially as they interface with the practice of law.With this background Professor Deutsch is well placed to understand the perspective of lawyers and others when dealing with accounting information and well placed to provide the answers often sought by lawyers and others regarding accounting information.

Kris Chikarovski has a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney with a major in accounting and economics, and a Bachelor of Laws degree. He was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales in 1979 but for the last 30 years has pursued a career in business, completing a Masters of Business Administration in 1994.Kris has co-owned and operated his own consulting and financial service businesses in this time and has provided consulting services to most of Australia’s top 100 companies. He has been a guest speaker at many public seminars and also co-authored a number of other publications in his field of expertise including Employee Incentive Plans, The Employee Share Plan Handbook and The Australian Remuneration Manual.With this background Kris is well placed to understand the perspective of lawyers and others when dealing with accounting information and well placed to provide the answers often sought by lawyers and others regarding accounting information.