Books by John Smullen

John Smullen BSc (Econ), MA, MSc (Econ), MBA was educated at the London School of Economics, Birkbeck College London and the London Business School. He has taught economics and in particular financial economics at a number of academic institutions. He is currently Senior Academic Advisor at the University of Greenwich, visiting Lecturer at the DeMontfort University and the Economics University of Cracow and Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Uruguay. He has also been a senior finance officer at Abbey National Plc, a major UK retail bank, being centrally involved in financial research, in particular, in relation to customers, products, business units, new business ventures, performance measurement, and budgetary and capital budgeting. Since 1994 he has run John Smullen Consultancy and Training which has undertaken a wide range of consultancy and training projects mainly concerned with the banking industry. Among the banking organisations which John has undertaken work for are: the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Britannia Building Society, First Active, the Romanian Institute of Bankers, a Uruguayan Banking consortium, the Associacion de Marketing Bancario Argentino and the State Investment Bank in Equador the CFN. He has also worked for a number of training companies including the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Croner Training. John has also been involved in work for local authorities and charities on the financial and management issues in relation heritage management. In 1996 he became involved in the issues in relation to the pricing of taxis and has provided financial modelling services on this issue to a number of clients. John has been a frequent contributor to conferences and has been the keynote speaker at a number of international conferences in Sidney, Helsinki, Brussels, New York and Buenos Aires. His publications include Financial Management Information and Analysis for Retail Banks for the Chartered Institute of Bankers in conjunction with Woodhead Publishing and Balanced Scorecards and Activity Based Management in the Financial Times Prentice Hall Management Briefings series. He also expects to publish Transfer Pricing for Financial Institutions with the Chartered Institute of Bankers and Woodhead Publishing by early 2001.