John began his career in International Development with the job title Disasters Accountant and his latest book, Cross-Cultural Organizational and Financial Training, is where anthropology meets accounting.  He shares the differences when communicating with 'high-context' to 'low-context' cultures.  We talk about the importance of building trust, saving face and the variation between online training versus face to face.  John explains how motivating it was for him to realise that accounting is not just about the figures and numbers but about human beings - their health care or that they're being fed or whatever it is in an emergency.  It is about having an impact on the program and that good budgeting means good development - get the budgeting right you'll get better development. We also talk about Accounting for International Development as a way to get first-hand experience.  

John Cammack is a highly experienced advisor, consultant and trainer for the international not-for-profit/NGO sector. He was head of international finance at Oxfam GB and senior lecturer in accounting and financial management at Oxford Brookes University.  He has worked with a wide range of agencies in over 60 countries. John was named as Global Business Insight Awards NGO Consulting firm of the year 2019.