Trevor Larkan

Trevor Larkan

  • Distinguished Lecturer, Finance
  • Senior Lecturer, Bentley University
  • Principal, Larkan & Associates
  • Committee Member
  • M.S. in Financial Planning, Bentley University
  • Program for Management Development Harvard Business School
  • B.Comm Hons in Financial Management, Natal University
  • Dip. Acc. in Advanced Accounting, Auditing & Tax, Natal University
  • B.Comm in Managerial Accounting & Business Admin., Natal University

Teaching Interests

Corporate Finance, Personal Financial Planning, Project Finance, Financial Statement Analysis, Investments and Business Valuations.

Research Interests

The financing of development projects and the challenges when such projects are implemented within emerging regions of the world.
The Management of Foreign Exchange Exposure, and the Impact of Policy Objectives on such Risk Management.
The philosophy and dynamics of Personal Financial Planning.

Consulting/Practice Interests

Financial management & corporate finance strategy for corporations.
Personal Financial planning.
Previous assignments include optimizing capital structures, shareholder value and financial system and process advice and Personal Finance Consultation.

Bio

A Certified Public Accountant (MA) by profession, having originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, his career has been in corporate roles as treasurer, controller and CFO, the latter since 1989. He also spent three years (2004-06) as a full time Finance faculty member at Bentley before being pulled back into a short-term CFO role for an international development project.
He was VP and CFO of a global paper company (Sappi) in the USA, Europe and South Africa for a major portion of his career (1988 to 2001), including participating in the listing of its shares on the NYSE.
He rejoined the Bentley Finance faculty in 2011. He led the initiative in 2019 to gain approval for a CFP Board Registered Financial Planning Concentration Program at Bentley and has been the Program Director since Fall 2019.

Professional Memberships

  • AICPA : Personal Financial Planning 2017-08-01 - 2023-08-31
  • Financial Executives International 2015-12-01 - Present
  • American Association of Individual Investors 2011-04-01 - Present
  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants 1998-01-01 - 2024-12-31

    • Awards and Honors

  • Medal Award, Trust Bank, SA

    • Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

    Other Scholarly Work

  • Larkan, T. L. A Case Study on the Acquisition of a European Paper Manufacturing Company by a Multi-National Group.. (In Progress).
  • Larkan, T. L. (2016). “An Investment in Far Away Woods” Presented at the North American Case Research Association NACRA 2016 Las Vegas

    • Service

    Service: Department

  • Fiance Department Representative for Admitted Student Day 2023-04-01 - 2023-04-15
  • Fiance Department Representative for Admitted Student Day 2022-04-01 - Present
  • Task Force Member for Finance: Fall Open House 2021-01-01 - Present
  • Course Coordinator for Financial Planning Concentration 2019-01-01 - Present
  • Course Coordinator for Advanced Managerial Finance 2019-08-01 - 2020-05-15
  • Finance Department Representative for Major/Minor Fair 2017-10-25 - Present
  • Course Coordinator for FI307 (prev. FI380) 2013-08-01 - 2015-12-31

    • Service: Public

  • Officer, Treasurer for Wellesley Congregational Church 2017-01-01 - 2020-02-15

    • Service: Professional

  • Committee Chair for FEI, Bentley Liaison Annual Scholarship Award 2016-01-01 - 2023-02-28

    • Service: University

  • Task Force Member for Major Minor Open House & Admitted Student Fair 2024-04-13 - Present
  • Guest Speaker for Bentley University Exhibition Honoring Helen Suzman: A Fighter for Human Rights - Present
  • Program Director for CFP Registered Financial Planning Concentration Program 2019-09-01 - Present
  • Task Force Member for Admitted Students (Year 2024): Virtual Sessions 2020-04-24 - 2020-04-27
  • Task Force Member for Major & Programs Virtual Information Sessions 2020-04-04 - 2020-04-04
  • Guest Speaker for Academic Technology Center: Online MBA Course 2018-12-04 - 2018-12-04
  • Finance Faculty Participant for Major & Program Fair: Fall 2018 Open House 2018-09-30 - 2018-09-30
  • Guest Speaker for Visiting Stellenbosch EMBA 2018-09-19 - 2018-09-19
  • Finance Department Representative for Fall Open House 2017-09-24 - Present
  • Task Force Member for Fall Open House 2017-09-24 - Present
  • Finance Faculty Participant for Admitted Student Day 2018-04-14 - 2018-04-14
  • Faculty Liaison: Bentley Womens Soccer Team for Bentley Womens Soccer Team 2016-09-01 - 2017-04-30
  • Committee Member for Assurance of Learning (AOL) 2004-08-01 - 2006-12-31