Qualifications and Professional Memberships

• Grad Cert Edu (Tertiary Education)
• MCom
• BCom (Hons)
• PhD
• Member of the National Tax and Accountants Association
• Member of the Australian Institute of Training and development
• Member of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers
• Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians

Research and Teaching Specialties

• Accounting
• Accounting Systems Management

Biography

Nilima is a passionate academic both in face to face and online. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her role as a face to face lecturer and a distance learning. She has extensive national and international experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate subjects and has amassed more than 26 years’ experience teaching accounting and finance subjects around the world at institutions including Australian Catholic University, Charles Darwin University, Victoria University, Federation University (IIBIT & MIT), University of New England (ISBT) and James Cook University.

Dr Paul has worked as a distance learning Trainer with Open Colleges since 2004 (formerly known as Cengage Education and Thomson Education Direct).

Nilima’s considerable personal success in teaching was formally acknowledged in 2016 and 2017 with the award of “Executive Dean Award for Outstanding Commitment to Teaching and Learning” in Under Graduate and Post Graduate at UBSS. Her other achievement was “Gold Made 1” in SSC and HSC Examination in Nationwide.