Programme Speakers
David Lloyd
After obtaining a first class degree, David Lloyd moved to the City of London to qualify as an accountant with Ernst Young, spending time also in the Channel Islands and Paris. He has over 25 years experience as accountant and consultant to many hundreds of individuals and businesses, ranging from sole-trader professional practices to quoted public companies, and has acted as personal adviser to dozens of individual company directors. In 2004 he was voted by businesses as South-West Chartered Accountant of the Year, in a competition organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
After qualification in 1981, David transferred to the North American office of Ernst Young to specialise in computer data security reviews. He returned to London in 1985 with Price Waterhouse Coopers to work with the rapidly emerging entrepreneurial business sector, and has pursued his interest in that area ever since. In 1989 he started his own business advisory practice in Bristol, and this achieved uninterrupted growth until 2006 when a merger with a larger firm allowed David to devote more time to training and consultancy activities. To keep himself firmly rooted in the real world he remains actively involved in advising the Boards of a number of companies.
Since 1989 David has written and delivered dozens of accounting and financial programmes for private and public sector organisations, university enterprise centres, undergraduate and post-graduate business programmes, business schools, the Royal Veterinary College in London, Chambers of Commerce and the Government's Business Link network. He delivers finance training entirely from his real-world perspective, using plain English to enable people to gain the confidence to get past the financial jargon. His second favourite sentence is 'You don't fit my preconception of a chartered accountant'.
During 2006 David Lloyd was commissioned by a leading business publishing house to re-write one of their top-selling small business accounting titles, and this was published in December 2006. He is currently commissioned by them to write a major new title on Business Planning, due for publication in Autumn 2007.
