Prof Alan Gregory

Career: CA 1974; successively mgmnt trainee, accountant and mangr BR 1971-76, budgets controller Green Shield Stamps 1977, lectr SW London Coll 1977-78, sr lectr in accounting Luton Coll of HE 1978-83, sr lectr Brighton Poly 1983-86, princ lectr City of London Poly 1986-89, lectr in accounting and finance Univ of Exeter 1989-95, prof of accounting Univ of Glasgow 1995-96, prof of business studies Univ of Wales Aberystwyth 1996-97, prof of corporate finance Univ of Exeter 1997-; memb Competition Cmmn; fell CIMA 1986 (assoc 1978)

Books and Publications: Valuing Companies (1992), Management Accounting in Hotel Companies (jtly, 1995), Cost of Capital in the UK (jtly, 1999), Recent Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions Vol 1 (ed jtly, 2000), Strategic Valuation of Companies (2 edn, 2001), Recent Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions Vol 2 (ed jtly, 2003); numerous pubns in leading jls incl: Jl of Empirical Finance, Jl of Business Finance and Accounting, European Financial Management, Jl of Accounting and Public Policy, Accounting and Business Research, Economic Jl