John was born and grew up in Kibumaye Tarime, Tanzania in 1959. After schooling for 14 years he began his teaching profession in business studies in 1979. Six years later he resumed his studies at Mzumbe University (formally IDM Mzumbe) from where he graduated in 1988 with an Advanced Diploma in Certified Accountancy (ADCA).

In 1989 he joined Tanzania Institute of Accountancy (formally Dar es Salaam School of Accountancy, DSA) as a Tutor in accounting & business taxation. After teaching for about four years heI re-joined Mzumbe University to study for a two-year MBA degree programme. John was then employed by Mzumbe University as a full time Lecturer in Accounting & Finance from the end of 1994 to August 1997. During his services at Mzumbe heI privately qualified as a Public Certified Accountant III, CPA (T)

John joined the University of Birmingham in the UK in September 1997 to pursue a 3-year PhD study programme in performance management. Before going back to Mzumbe University in 2004 heI worked as a freelance lecturer in accounting and finance in and around Birmingham for about three years. John came back to UK in 2006 to resume his freelance lectureship assignments before joining The University of East London in late 2008 as a full time Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance.

Outside the academia, John has always been a staunch supporter of his local football team back home - Simba Sport Club (Tanzania) and Liverpool FC (UK). However, now in East London he has demonstrated his partisanship by switching to the West Ham FC.

• Lectureship in Accounting & Finance: Module Leader in FE1017 & FE2008
• Supervision of students’ research projects;
• Research, Consultancy and Short course assignments;
• Other administrative duties e.g.  Curriculum review &   dev. , setting/marking internal & external accountancy exams, and teaching of professional accounting students

• Favourite modules include: a) Financial Accounting, b) Management Accounting, c) Performance Management, d) Corporate Finance/Financial Management, and e) Quantitative Methods for Business Management (Business Maths & Statistics)
• Online teaching - VLE

• FE1017 Cost & Management Accounting
  FE2008 Accounting for Economists

• The ‘revised’ role of management accounting system in public sector organizations in the new era of New Public Management
• The applicability and expediency of market-oriented managerial techniques in public sector organisations e.g. financial performance assessment, project appraisal techniques and bankruptcy prediction models
• (Current issues in E-Commerce, micro-finance, SMEs, and Poverty reduction strategies e.g. the role of accountants in the provision of E-Commerce support to SMEs; impact of microfinance and micro-credit policies in poverty reduction in developing economies, etc.
• Current issues in Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) e.g. assessment and reporting of annual environmental costs/expenditures; product pricing; budgeting; investment appraisal; calculating costs; and savings of environmental projects, or setting quantified performance targets.

•  Public sector reform - Implications for accounting, accountability and performance of state-owned entities – a Tanzanian perspective, International Development Department (IDD), School of Public Policy, The University of Birmingham, UK
  • A systematic approach to presenting a doctoral thesis: tips for research students - Paper presented at a Research Students’ Seminar, University of Birmingham.
  • Performance management model: A systems-based approach to public service quality, International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 13 No. 1, 2000, pp. 19-37, MCB University Press, Bradford
  • Urban Governance and Democracy: Insights from developing countries, Paper presented at the Seminar organised by One World Link, Redditch Borough Council, United Kingdom.
  • Need for taxation system reform in Tanzania in the 1990s - A Paper presented at a Workshop prepared by NBAA, held at AICC Arusha, Tanzania,
  • Financial Statements for Small Scale Industries; Problems affecting the informal sector in Tanzania, Paper presented at the Joint Workshop of SIDO and small scale entrepreneurs in Tanzania.
  • Financial Statements Reporting Standards in Tanzania - The Accountancy Journal of Tanzania, Vol. 3 No 2, pp 94 – 101, NBAA Dar es Salaam.

Doctoral research to examine the role of management accounting & motivation theory in managing performance in a public sector environment with a special focus on performance-related pay schemes. Among other contributions of this study to knowledge, I argue that management accounting system has a revised role to play in facilitating informed decisions during this era of new public management.

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