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Executive Finance
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Blair Cook and Jennifer Nicholson, together known as Executive Finance, are both certified public accountants (CPAs) with over 25 years' experience. Besides working as accounting professionals and boardroom executives in a wide variety of sectors, they have also taught university-level accounting courses and professional programmes. With over a decade of experience in online earning, they came together to form Executive Finance in 2016.Executive Finance distinguishes themselves in online education by being 'academic practitioners': they practice what they teach in their own workplaces and so can offer students an education with a real-time, real-world merit. Their courses aim to add value to accounting employees working today.
By drawing on their own far-reachi
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