Michael is a chartered accountant and a member of the British Computer Society. He has over thirty years' finance, marketing and training experience of the information technology (IT) industry and its customers. For many years he was a financial marketing specialist with IBM, developing business cases, selling leasing, teaching salespeople the finance of selling and advising customers on financing and accounting for IT. Self-employed since 1993, he writes books and teaches courses on finance for decision makers and salespeople and other non-financial people in IT and other industries.
Michael has achieved recognition, in the UK and elsewhere, as a leading teacher of finance to decision makers, salespeople and other non-financial people. He is highly-regarded as a tutor, and his courses consistently achieve the very highest ratings. His material has been successfully adapted and taught in other countries. His courses and his books on finance for non-financial people have won acclaim for the clarity and simplicity with which they present, in plain English, a subject often regarded as difficult.
His areas of specialization are the following:
Finance for IT (and other non-financial) decision makers
Finance for salespeople, especially salespeople in IT and other high-tech industries
Cost/benefit analysis and investment appraisal
Leasing, especially IT leasing
Michael trades under his company name of Blackstaff Financial Training Ltd.
Welcome, you are visitor number
Michael Blackstaff FCA MBCS CITP is a chartered accountant and a member of the
