Giles Pearson

CEO

Giles Pearson is the CEO and co-founder of Accountests Ltd, whose aim is to help avoid bad hires in accounting firms by using pre-employment skills and personality tests specifically designed for accountants. Prior to starting Accountests, he was a tax and private client partner of PwC in New Zealand for 18 years.

Practice management

Assessing accountants' project management skills

Many firms know how to figure out if an accountant has good technical skills — but the ability to manage a project (or several) is something else again.

By Giles Pearson

July 27
Technology

AI vs accounting education – who will prevail?

Artificial intelligence is already changing accounting, which in turn raises the question of how accounting educators should adapt.

By Giles Pearson

May 15