About Prof Geoffrey Baring

Geoffrey H J Baring is CEO of the Monash Consulting Group a Melbourne based Training Organisation and board member of the International Academy of Financial Management. He is regarded as an international expert in Financial Accounting and particularly in relation to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

He has a background in management consulting, initially at London based Urwick, Orr and Partners and subsequently as the Director of Human Resources Consulting in the international accounting firm, Arthur Young. He undertook major assignments with many of Australia’s largest companies including Shell Australia Limited, CSR Limited, Esso Limited, the ANZ Banking Group, Westpac Banking Corporation and Australia Post. In 1990, he became the Foundation Director of the Centre for Accounting Research at Monash University, a position that he held for three years and during which time he traveled throughout the Asia Pacific region presenting accounting and financial management programs.

Geoffrey joined Victoria University in 1992 and was responsible for its overseas programs in Hong Kong. He has significant experience teaching in Hong Kong over a ten year period and has been responsible for the development of a number of course initiatives that enable overseas students to complete undergraduate programs in Australia.

He has a Bachelors degree from the University of Melbourne and a Masters degree from Monash University. He is a qualified workplace trainer and assessor. Geoffrey is the sitting Chair of the International Academy of Business and Financial Management in Australia. in Australia and the Chief Executive of the two recently established training organisations in the USA. He sits on the academic advisory boards of a number of Australian Colleges and is a former member of the Educational Committee of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants (ICMA).

He has extensive training experience in training vocational and workplace trainers and in the educational of training and teaching professionals and has conducted more than 250 training sessions in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Dubai, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Bosnia Herzegovina, South Africa, Mozambique, Ghana, Kenya, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia,

He is a Visiting Professor at the China University of Mining and Technology and the Guangzhou University.