Professor Keith Freeman
Keith Freeman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Accounting at London Business School. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Association of Certified Accountants and was one of the first-ever qualified accountants to obtain a Masters Degree in the United Kingdom, specialising in Finance and Accounting. He has experience as an audit manager, management accountant in both industry and commerce, management consultant, and his current activities include acting as financial and business advisor for a few long-standing clients. He also worked for what was then one of the leading city stockbrokers. He was a director of an independent financial advisory company for over twenty-five years and was also a director of a portfolio management company for twenty-one years until he assisted in its sale to a major Building Society.
Lecturing Experience and Accountancy Training
Keith has extensive experience in the field of student training. He has lectured on examination courses in the UK for: London School of Accountancy Ltd; Emile Woolf and Associates Ltd (later E W Fact plc); Accountancy Tuition Centre; BPP Ltd and Accountancy Tutors Ltd. He has also lectured on private sector accountancy courses in East Africa and the West Indies, and his clients have included a number of major accountancy firms.
London Business School
Keith has lectured at the London Business School since 1989 and was appointed a teaching fellow in 1998. He has been a lecturer/tutor on: Full-time and Executive MBA; Full-time MiF; Part-time MiF/CFEP; IEMP; Senior Executive Programme; Accelerated Development Programme; Financial Seminar for Senior Managers ;Corporate courses for Exxon, Whitbread, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Hilton, IBM, Kone, FT, EDS, 3M, Nokia, Thames Water, Deutsche Bank, Aviva, Braxton, E.On, Suez, Diageo, and BT. He has designed, directed and lectured on programmes for Suez, Allianz, SKU and Etisalat.
Other Lecturing
Keith has previously lectured on MBA courses of the University of Hull that were run in London and also designed, and lectured on, professional courses run for the Securities Institute Diploma. He taught for several years on the MBA programme of Richmond American University in London and is visiting faculty at the European School for Management and Technology. He has also designed/run/taught on private training programmes for a variety of companies and organisations including consultants, investment banks, insurance companies, retailers and property companies.
Lecturing Subject Coverage
Corporate finance/financial management, financial planning and financial strategy, management/cost accounting, quantitative techniques, financial accounting (UK, International, US GAAP) and financial analysis.
All subjects are covered to final level for professional accountancy examinations and to final exam MBA level. A particular specialisation is teaching finance and accounting to non-financial executives.
Other Academic Activities
During the 1980’s he was one of the authors and presenters of a series of audio training cassettes produced by the Certified Accountants Educational Trust and sold worldwide. In 1988 he was appointed as one of the four members of the editorial panel responsible for preparing and editing the objective testing material developed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants and now used in their professional examinations.
