Mr Irfan Ansari
Teaching Associate
Location: Wellington Hall WH210a
E: i.ansari@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785129
Department of Management and Security
Current activities
Irfan is the principal lecturer on the Financing Acquisition module on the MSc Defence Acquisition Management programme. He also lectures in accounting and finance on the MSC International Defence and Security Marketing and on defence finance which is an integral part of the Defence Economics module on the MBA (Defence). He also teaches Resource Accounting and Budgeting (RAB) on the Acquisition and Employment Training short course.
Irfan is currently studying for his PhD which is focussed on the value for money of Defence Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs). He is also writing a paper which examines whether accounting standards are failing us?
Background
Irfan studied for and obtained his ACCA (affiliate) qualifications in Kenya in 2003. Whilst in Kenya, he also worked as an audit assistant for a Certified Public Accounting firm. Later he worked on a research project that earned him BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University in 2005. Irfan then studied for the Masters in Defence Administration (MDA) at Cranfield University, Defence Academy of the UK and won the AMEY Defence Management Prize for the best MDA dissertation. Along with his lecturing commitments, Irfan is studying for a PhD in Defence Private Finance Initiatives.
Selected publications
- Working title: Are accounting standards failing us?
- Ansari, I. Defence PFIs: burden or benefit? Accounting and Business, May 2007.
