Manchester accountant elected to global accountancy body’s Council
Manchester accountant Francis Chittenden, who is also ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Professor of Small Business Finance at Manchester Business School, has today been elected to serve on ACCA’s governing Council at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting (AGM). ACCA is the largest and fastest-growing global professional accountancy body and has 325,606 students and 122,426 members in 170 countries.
Francis says: “I am keen to support ACCA’s continued growth globally and in the North West as the leading global accountancy body, providing rigorous training and significant career opportunities to members around the world. I am also keen to support ACCA’s open door policy, recognising that not everyone can follow a conventional educational path. I also believe that it is important for governments to fully appreciate the unique contributions that small businesses make to economies and the need to provide tax and regulatory regimes that encourage enterprise.”
Francis has been a practising accountant whose work experience has encompassed manufacturing industry, distribution, retailing and banking. He has founded or co-founded four businesses, including an accountancy practice that specialises in serving small and medium enterprise (SME) clients.
For the past ten years he has been chairman of ACCA’s UK Small Business Committee and recently joined ACCA’s Tax Committee. On behalf of ACCA, he is Vice Chair of the SME/SMP working party of the Federation des Experts Comptables Europeans – the body the represents the accountancy profession in Europe.
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Notes to editors
1. ACCA is the largest and fastest-growing global professional accountancy body and has 325,606 students and 122,426 members in 170 countries.
2. At ACCA’s AGM today, 10 positions on Council were filled in the elections, five of which were returning Council members, and five new members.
The details are:
Newly elected to Council:
Pauline Hobson
Laura Perrin
Francis Chittenden
Dato Khalid Ahmad
Coutts A Otolo
Re-elected to Council
Alexandra Chin
Kevin Lau
Antony Tyen
Dean Westcott
Jason Parker
For further information please contact:
Sharon Garfinkel - ACCA Newsroom +44 (0) 20 7059 5788/ 07711 914 701