Professional Accountant

First,let me start off with introducing your examiner; Mr. David campbell, he is a senior lecturer in accounting and business ethics at Newcastle University and is an external examiner at the University of Northampton (on MBA) and at the UHI Millennium Institute in Inverness (on BA business and management),and is a member of the editorial boards of 'Accounting Forum' and 'Business Ethics: a European Review.' He so far has fourteen refereed articles for the current RAE period, mainly in social/environmental accounting, corporate philanthropy, CSR strategy and accounting narrative disclosure materiality.After working in industry for several years as a research chemist, he became an academic at Northumbria University in 1992. He joined Newcastle University in February 2004.
His qualification includes; BSc (Chemistry), CDipAF, DipM, PGCED, MBA, PhD (Accounting).
His research interests are Social and environmental accounting and reporting,Textual hermeneutics, content analysis and accounting narrative interrogation,Voluntary disclosure materiality and theories,Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and CSR strategy
Business ethics and corporate philanthropy, been researching in ethics and CSR for ten years.
With a PhD in ethical theory and social accounting, his research has been published in several top scholarly journals. He is the author of nine books, has lectured internationally on business ethics and has carried out consultancy on CSR and ethics in a range of organisational settings. He
sits on the Editorial Boards of several academic journals and is responsible for examining ethics as a core component of professional accounting training with ACCA, one of the world’s largest professional accounting bodies.

If you are have an effort to understand more about his style,or types of questions, a further reading which he wrote/publish are:-

• Campbell, DJ & Slack, R. Corporate philanthropy, building societies and demutualisation defences. Business Ethics: a European Review 2007, 16(4).
• Campbell, DJ and Slack, RE. Philanthropy strategy and strategic philanthropy – some insights from voluntary disclosures in annual reports. Business and Society 2007, Accepted forthcoming.
• Campbell, D. J. & Slack, R. E. The influence of mutual status on rates of corporate charitable contributions. Journal of Business Ethics 2007.
• Campbell, D.J. Protocol analysis. In: Zahirul Hoque, ed. Methodological issues in accounting research: theories, methods and issues. London: Spiramus Press, 2006.
• Campbell, D.J., Moore, G. and Shrives, P. Cross Sectional Effects in Community Disclosure. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 2006, 19(1), 96-114.
• Campbell, D.J. and Slack, R.E. Public Visibility as a Determinant of the Rate of Corporate Charitable Donations. Business Ethics: a European Review 2006, 15(1), 17-26

so,we hope all the best for mr.Campbell to test the candidate the true value of being Professional Accountant.