Key details
Nick Hand
Director of International Affairs, Principal Lecturer in Finance
Nick Hand gained working experience in the retail banking industry and qualified with ACCA in 1994. He has taught across most areas of Accounting & Finance particularly Management Accounting & Financial Modelling. He was previously a Head of Department of Accounting & Finance and, subsequently, from 2005 - 2011, he was based in China working with various Chinese Universities providing teaching and programme development support. The partnerships developed are still running strongly with significant numbers of Chinese students transferring to the Business Faculty each year.
Responsibilities within the university
- Director of Partnerships and International for the Business Faculty
- Teaches on the final year of the Accounting degree : Current Issues in Management Accounting and Strategic Financial Management
- Dissertation supervision to students in the MSc Finance and Accounting programmes
Research / Scholarly interests
Performance Measurement generally, especially in retail banking
Recent publications
Hand, N., with White, L.A. (1996) Banking on efficiency. Operational Research Insight, Oct–Dec 1996.
Hand, N., with Smullen, J. Can branch performance be adequately measured by profitability?
Hand, N. (1998) Performance Measurement – Theory and Practice. In: Neeley, A., and Waggoner, D. (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Hand, N., with White, L.A. Efficient resource allocation for GP practices.
Hand, N. (1999) International Federation of Operational Research Societies. Published abstracts.