29 April 1994 Accounting Firm Partner Joins Lincoln University Council

Christchurch accountant Gill Cox, a partner in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Christchurch, has become a member of the Lincoln University Council.

Mr Cox takes up the post as Council representative of the central organisation of employers and succeeds Mr Colin Jenkins who did not seek re-appointment when his term expired last year.

Mr Cox, whose appointment brings the Council's strength to 16, is a Master of Commerce (Honours) graduate of the University of Canterbury and a Fellow of the NZ Society of Accountants. He has been a partner with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu since 1971 and his career prior to that has included both fulltime and part-time lecturing in Accounting at Canterbury University.

He holds directorships in a number of private companies and since 1992 has been a director of Healthlink South, one of the two Crown Health Enterprises in Canterbury.

In the education field Mr Cox has had extensive involvement with the development, accreditation and on-going quality assurance in the commerce degree programmes and commerce departments of a number of New Zealand universities and polytechnics.  He has also been extensively involved in the development of competency-based standards for the accounting profession in New Zealand and Australia. During the formation years of the NZ Qualifications Authority, Mr Cox served on the National Academic Standing Committee of that Authority.

Currently he serves on the Advisory Board of the NZ Universities Academic Audit Unit.

Mr Cox was National President of the NZ Society of Accountants in 1992-93, served on and chaired the Society's Education Committee for a number of years, and has represented the society at a number of international accounting forums.

Lincoln University's Chancellor, Mr Malcolm Cameron, said the Council would value Mr Cox's contribution to its business particularly in the light of his strong interest in the quality of education.

Ian Collins, Journalist, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.