Position: Lecturer (Financial Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, Marketing & Management)
Email: nwalsh@ipa.ie
Telephone: 00 353 1 240 3600
Co-ordinate the following subjects in the Accounting & Marketing streams of the Bachelor of Business Studies & the Diploma in Business Studies:
- Business Administration and Marketing
- Quantitative Analysis
- Financial Accounting (three years)
- Management Accounting (three years)
- Information Systems & Project Mgt
- Financial Management
- Taxation
- Auditing
- Strategic Marketing & Planning
- Business Policy
Co-ordinate the following subjects in the Bachelor of Arts in Public Management:
- Financial Management
- Marketing and Strategic Management
Co-ordinate the following subjects in Year 2 in MA in Public Management - Financial Management stream:
- Financial Strategy
- Public Sector Finance and Reporting
- Audit and Risk Management
Lecture in Financial Analysis on the MSc Econ in Policy Analysis, the Diploma in Policy Analysis and the Diploma in Economics. Lecture in Cost Accounting on the Bachelor and Diploma of Business Studies Programmes.
Supervised a range of dissertations in the Masters of Arts in Public Management over the last four years. Themes have included:
- “A proposal for a new approach to funding Institutes of Technology”
- “Public Private Partnerships - A Local Government Perspective”
- “The case for an eclectic approach to the management of change in complex organisations settings”
- “Performance measurement and management - a deadly disease or panacea”
- “An expenditure review of the National Parks Service”
Other activities:
- Lecturer in Finance - Trinity College,
- External Examiner for Limerick Institute of Technology
- National Examiner in BusinessManagement for IATI
- Part -time lecturer for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
List of previous work done:
- Technical co-ordinator - Final Admittance Examination and Professional Examinations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
- Contributed to World Bank Studies on Education and Development in the Sub-Saharan African region
Papers written in the last eighteen months (as part of M. Phil/ PhD):
- Accountability, Meaning and Measurement
- Performance Indicators: Static displays or frameworks for understanding relations as they unfold? (5,000 words)
- Learning orientations and approaches to study amongst undergraduate students, Institute of Public Administration (8,000 words)
- Grounding value judgements in organisational settings - a question of metrics or mentality? (5,000 words)
- To what extent do critical management programmes achieve their emancipatory ideal ? (3,000 words)
- Does Wright’s theory of collective action provide a useful framework for gaining insights into the behaviour of cabals? (8,000 words)
- Application of Douglas’s Group/Grid model to the study of cabals (5,000 words)