Our experts

Julia Bowyer is the Accounting and Audit Content Manager at Croner-i. Responsible for ensuring our content is relevant, accessible and technically strong, Julia is supported by an expert team of in-house technical authors and specialist external authors.

Before joining Croner-i, Julia was at PwC for 17 years where she had experience of audit, accounting and structuring advice, technical helplines, reviews of listed financial statements and due diligence. With knowledge across company law, UK GAAP and IFRS, her specialist areas include real estate and infrastructure.

Helen MacNeill has worked in a variety of audit-related roles in BDO LLP and as a freelance technical author for Implementing GAAS. At Croner-i she is responsible for Private Company Audit System (PCAS) and other audit programmes, ensuring that technical changes are processed in real-time.

At BDO LLP she was a core member of the technical department where she developed BDO’s audit automation tool and global audit manual. She also authored and delivered technical audit training materials and guidance for the UK audit teams. She has updated Implementing GAAS for the last 6 years for changes in auditing standards and legislation.

Helen is a member of ICAEW’s ISA panel.

James Waller is a technical writer for audit and accountancy at Croner-i.

He qualified at Crowe Clark Whitehill in London, where he gained experience in auditing charities and larger corporate organisations.

He also has experience of auditing a range of other clients, from travel agents, property developers, finance traders and manufacturing companies.

He has also worked within industry, working as financial controller for a £5 million turnover business.

Paul Robbins is the content and innovation manager for Croner-i Tax.

After graduating, Paul worked in the tax departments of two large firms now absorbed into the Big 4 before joining Croner-i as a tax technical writer specialising in corporates. 

At Croner-i he has held various publishing posts whilst also managing the team of in-house tax writers and being lead technical editor on a number of core titles. He is now responsible for the quality and development of the Croner-i tax portfolio.

Sarah joined Croner-i in 2018 where she is reponsible for the tax news stories in Accountancy Daily and Tax Update and runs the tax legislation and treaty databases. Previously, Sarah worked as a freelance tax writer and tax adviser for a number of years and co-authored Taxation of Partnerships. Sarah trained as a Chartered Accountant initially as an auditor before joining a top 50 London LLP as PA to the senior tax partner. Sarah went on to qualify as a Chartered Tax Adviser and moved back to the North East into a role as Director of Tax for a large independent regional practice before setting up her own tax consultancy specialising in the taxation of sportspersons. Sarah is experienced in advising high net worth individuals on all aspects of personal taxation including utilising trusts and the taxation of estates.

Julie has significant Big Four international and UK practice experience having worked at Arthur Andersen in their UK-US Expatriate team, Ernst & Young’s Entertainment and Media Group and Deloitte and Touche’s Tax Policy Group.

She was also Deputy Editor of The Tax Journal.

She writes in-depth and quick overview commentary on income tax and employment tax. Julie also prepares case reports for decisions released by the tribunals and courts for her commentary areas.

Stan qualified as both a chartered accountant and a chartered tax adviser, and had spent nine years in practice before joining Croner-i.

He joined the company as a tax editor in 1984, working primarily on VAT publications.

He wrote Personal Tax Losses and Personal Trading Losses and is co-author of Company Cars.

For many years, he presented tax seminars for the ICAEW, the CIOT and training organisations all over the UK.

Following a career in tax training, Stephanie joined the CCH in-house writing team in the mid-1990s. After several years back in practice,where her main focus was owner-managed businesses and high net worth individuals. followed by a career break in France, she spent a number of years doing freelance writing work before joining Croner-i in 2018.

She writes in-depth and quick overview commentary on capital gains tax, inheritance tax and trusts and pensions as well as preparing case reports for tribunal and court decisions in her commentary areas.  She is also involved in writing new modules and updating existing ones for the Tax Workflow service.

Meg writes in-depth and quick overview commentary on the management of taxes. The commentary covers: direct tax compliance; HMRC’s powers and dealing with HMRC; measures to tackle tax avoidance, tax evasion and money laundering; tribunal procedures; and dispute resolution.

Meg also prepares case reports for tribunal and court decisions, eCPD modules and tax workflow modules for her commentary areas.

Meg has worked in tax for over 20 years, including working for KPMG and smaller accountancy firms.

Joanna Harrison is the Development Editor for Environment and Facilities Management and has over 15 years’ experience in legal and professional publishing. 

After graduating and completing Law Society Finals, Joanna worked for several years on the litigation lists at Sweet and Maxwell and Oxford University Press, as a legal editor, commissioning editor and then Publishing Manager. 

She is now commissioning and content manager for Croner-i Environment and Sustainability, and Croner-i Facilities Management.

Paul Coulam is the Development Editor for Human Resources and Employment Law.

His background is in academic and legal publishing, in which he has over 25 years’ experience.

He commissions and develops the content and product for the Croner-i Human Resources portfolio.

Rob is Development Editor currently commissioning content for the Croner-i Education and Hazardous Substances products.

He has over 20 years’ experience in legal, financial and professional publishing.

He has worked in various marketing and editorial roles for magazine, book and online publishers on a range of topics including law, treasury management, audit and accountancy and human resources.

Vibul Wataranan is the Development Editor for the Hazardous Substances database and has over 32 years’ experience in Information Technology, the last 24 years of which has been in database management and publishing.

Having started out as a Business Analyst for companies such as EDS and British Telecom, Vibul then moved into marketing and product management, before finally settling down in database publishing.

He now compiles and builds content for the Croner-i Hazardous Substances database.