Lashanthi Ediriwickrama Accounting teacher over 16 years of experience
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I am an energetic, dedicated and experienced senior teacher with over 16 years of experience in teaching Accounting as a subject for Edexcel person IGCSE and IAL Levels.
Further contributing as a Leader and caring out vision as a head of a department and a member of the College Board to deliver high quality of education outcomes to the schools that i have served for. My commitment to teaching has earned me many accolades and positions.
Having contributed as a "Moderator" and "Syllabus consultant" for Person Edexcel body in Uk, for IGCSE Accounting in 2018. It is with utmost pleasurer that i state this as the First Sri Lankan Teacher to have the Name on the Syllabus Guide for Person Edexcel 2018 publication.
Also obtaining world prizes continuously for the subject Accounting especially at the IAL through my teaching carrier from 2012 up to now.
It was a proud moment as a teacher to witness the resent "Edexcel Pearson Awards day" 2022 where two of my private students were able to obtain world prizes getting 600/600 (Full marks) for AS and AL accounting. These were the only two world prizes obtained from Sri Lanka for this subject.

Subjects

  • Accounting IGCSE-A2 level

Experience

  • Head of the department – Business (Jan, 2020–Present) at Asian International School Colombo
    • Board member of the College Board representing the Department of Business and actively
    involved in the strategic planning and management of the delivery of the School’s services.
    • Management of teacher allocations and time tables for the department.
    • Responsible for carrying out lesson observations for new teachers relating to business subjects.
    • Organising and conducting teaching-learning workshops for teachers of the department.
    • In charge of bi-annual teacher observation and performance evaluations for the Business
    Department.
    • Guiding student’s through teaching-learning process to obtained world prizes at Edexcel Advance level
    examination for the subject accounting for four consecutive years.
  • Head of the department – Business (Jun, 2007–Dec, 2019) at Gateway College Colombo
    • Board member of the College Board representing the Department of Business and actively
    involved in the strategic planning and management of the delivery of the School’s services.
    • Management of teacher allocations and time tables for the department.
    • Responsible for carrying out lesson observations for new teachers relating to business subjects
    for the Gateway group.
    • Organising and conducting teaching-learning workshops for teachers of the department.
    • In charge of bi-annual teacher observation and performance evaluations for the Business
    Department.
    • Guiding student’s through teaching-learning process to obtained world prizes at Edexcel Advance
    level examination for the subject accounting for four consecutive years. (2012-2015).
    • Coordinating and lecturing the Diploma in Business programs by NCC education UK, at Gateway
    College Colombo.
    • Heading the committee for certificates and the prizes at the annual awards day.
    • Organising the annual graduation and valediction program as the year head.
    • Heading the invitations and ushering committee for sports meet and ISAC.
    • Accelerated Skills Acquisition Programs (ASAP) for Advanced Level students.
    • Team member in organising annual teacher workshop programs.
    • Organising Bakthi Gee programe in School.
    • Overseeing the banking operations in the school student banking unit.
  • Accountant (Jan, 2002–May, 2007) at A .Baur & Co.Ltd
    • Functioned as the head of budgeting and forecasting for all divisions reporting to the finance director.
    • Assisted the finance director in respect of the company’s strategic planning process and providing input to the development of appropriate business strategies according to the strategic direction set by the board
    of directors.
    • Led the budgetary and forecasting process by preparing the necessary documents for the strategic plan to communicate internally with the business units as well as senior management and subsequently collating the information and developing the strategic plans and the associated annual budgets.
    • Actively involved the finance director and senior management with setting business objectives, targets,
    analyzing data and assisted in finalizing the company’s business plan and annual budgets.
    • Member of the strategic planning committee and financial forecasting committees involved in preparing
    periodic reports.
    • In charge of import costing for Fertilizer, Pharmaceutical products, Agrochemicals, and chemical products.
    • Coordinating with banks and organizing required funding facilities for imports.

Education

  • Master of Education (M.edu) (Jun, 2016–Jun, 2017) from The Open University of Sri Lanka
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) (Jun, 2013–Jun, 2014) from The Open University of Sri Lanka
  • Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting (May, 2002–Sep, 2006) from Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of UK (CIMA)
  • Bachelor of Commerce (Jun, 1995–Sep, 1999) from University of Delhi, India

Fee details

    රු2,000/hour (US$6.90/hour)

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