Noel Yahanpath is a Senior Lecturer at the Business School, Faculty of Applied Science Business and Computing, Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier, New Zealand. Prior to joining the Eastern Institute of Technology as a lecturer in 1998, he had professional and industrial experience in accounting and finance in Sri Lanka, the UK and New Zealand. Before migrating to NZ in 1996 he held the position of General Manager, Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka. Noel has won a number of research awards over the past 15 years, including the EIT Research Excellence Award in 2011 and also achieved PBRF research rankings in both 2006 and 2012 rounds. More recently, paper titled “valuing flexibility in career training decisions” published in Education and Training has been selected by the Editorial Team as the Outstanding Paper of 2013. Noel has had material published in international journals, including the Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal, Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, Education and Training Journal. Noel continue to maintain and develop research links with University of London, University of Western Australia and University of La Trobe.

Finance for Executives (Masters Programme), Corporate Finance, Managerial Finance, Quantitative Analysis, Quantitative Business Methods