Faculty of Social Sciences

Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management

Dr. Donley Carrington

Deputy Director of The Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management (SCHSBM)

Lecturer in Accounting
Programme Coordinator - MSc. Investment and Wealth Management and MSc. Financial Management

Dr.Donley Carrington has lectured Accounting in the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management since 1994. Dr. Carrington entered tertiary education after several years as a trained secondary school teacher.  With CMA and PhD qualifications in Accounting, he has been sought after by the Caribbean Examinations Council to play leading roles in the syllabus development and examination preparation processes. Dr. Carrington served as Chief Examiner for CAPE Accounting for eleven consecutive years and has been the CAPE Accounting Panel Convenor from 1998 to the present.  He is also the author and the co-author of the two commissioned texts for CAPE Accounting Unit I and Unit II.  Both texts were commissioned by the Caribbean Examinations Council and published by Oxford Publishing.

Dr. Carrington delivers the Assessment Module of the UWI's Certificate Programme in University Teaching and Learning, and his expertise in this field continues to prove an excellent resource to his academic colleagues, as well as to the campus as a whole.  As Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences since 2019, he oversees student-related matters for the largest faculty at the UWI Cave Hill Campus. 
 
Dr. Carrington is also a sought-after member of local boards as a consequence of his practical expertise in the areas of accounting and finance. He possesses an unparalleled track record for shepherding the financial affairs of the Anglican Diocese of Barbados at both the national level and the local level.

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. Accounting, Hull University United Kingdom (2009) 
  • MBA Iowa State University (1994)
  • B.Sc. Accounting (First Class Honours)  University of the West Indies (1990)

Professional Qualifications

  • Certified Management Accountant (CMA) – Institute of Management Accountants (2000)

Academic Awards

  • KPMG Accounting Award (1989)
  • Victor Cooke Award for Accounting (1990)
  • J. William Fulbright (US Government) Scholarship (1992)
  • Faculty Partner Award – Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2014)  
  • Dedicated Service to the Faculty of Social Sciences  (2017)

 

Undergraduate Courses

  • ACCT 3015 Accounting Information Systems
  • ACCT 3039 Management Accounting II
  • ACCT 3041 Advanced Financial Accounting

Graduate Courses

  • ACCT 6010 Accounting for Managerial Decision-Making
  • ACCT 6900 Research Paper
  • ACCT 6990 Internship/Practicum
  • ACCT 6011- Corporate Finance
  • ACCT 6017 – Quantitative Methods (Team Taught)

Academic Responsibilities 

  • Deputy Dean – Undergraduate Affairs, Recruitment, Quality Assurance and Accreditation, Faculty of Social Sciences (2019 – present) 
  • Programme Coordinator –  MSc. Investments and Wealth Management 
  • Programme Coordinator – MSc. Financial Management

Research Interests

  • Human Resource Accounting
  • Accounting for Intellectual Capital 

Selected Publications

  • Knight, J. and Carrington, D., 2019. Bill prioritisation and bill payment orientation in the developing country context. International Journal of Services, Economics and Management, 10(1), pp.1-22.
  • Carrington, D. and Tayles, M., 2012. Intellectual capital in the Caribbean hospitality industry: Two case studies. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, 10(3). pp. 244-257.
  • Carrington, D. and Tayles, M., 2011. The mediating effects of sense making and measurement of IC (intellectual capital) on the components of IC and performance linkage. Electronic Journal of  Knowledge Management,  9(3), pp 284-295.

  Selected Conferences

  • Carrington, D. and Tayles, M., 2012. Exploring IC in the Caribbean hospitality industry: Two qualitative case studies. Paper presented at the 4th European Conference on on Intellectual Capital , Finland (p. 136) April 2012.
  • Carrington, D. 2011. The mediating effects of sensemaking and measurement of IC on the components of IC and performance linkage. Paper presented at  the 3rd European Conference on Intellectual Capital, Cyprus, April 2011.
  • Carrington, D. 2008.  Financial management in public sector institutions. Paper presented at  the Caribbean Association of Bursars Annual Conference , November 2008.
  • Carrington, D. 2006.  A study of intellectual capital in the hospitality sector in the Caribbean. Paper presented at Hull University Business School, October 2006.
  • Carrington, D. 2005. Intellectual capital reporting in Barbados. Paper presented at the Department of Management Studies Research Forum, Cave Hill Campus, University of the West Indies, February 2005.
  • Carrington, D. 2003.  Show me your ROI – Invest in people. Paper presented at  the Jamaica Employers Confederation Conference, May 2003.
  • Carrington, D. 2002 . The accountant in the virtual global economy. Paper presented at  the Annual Conference of the Certified General Accountants of Canada, Barbados Chapter, January 2002. 
  • Carrington, D. 2000. Determining an appropriate mix of human capital, physical capital and technological capital in the organisation.  Paper presented at the ICAB Annual Conference  2000.

Areas of Expertise

  • Intellectual Capital
  • Corporate Finance
  • Human Resources Accounting  

Public Service

  • Board Member – Caves of Barbados Ltd  (2020 – Present)
  • Deputy Chair –  Fair Trading Commission  (2018 – Present)
  • Chair – Lester Vaughn School Board  (2018 – Present) 
  • Board Member –  Fair Trading Commission  (2014 – 2018)
  • Deputy Chair – Caves of Barbados Ltd (2014 – 2018)
  • University Representative – Board of the Student Revolving Loan Fund – ( 2014- 2018)
  • Member of Finance Sub-Committee for the Preparation of the Bid to host World Cup Cricket in Barbados (2005-2006)  
  • Chief Examiner – CAPE Accounting – Caribbean Examinations Council (1999 – 2010) 
  • Panel Convenor CXC – Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) in Accounting (1998 – Present)

Anglican Church in the Province of the West Indies

  • Provincial Synod Representative (2019 – Present)
  • Board Member of Codrington College  (2019 – Present)
  • Chair of the Finance Committee of the Barbados Diocese of the Anglican Church (2015 – Present)
  • Provincial Synod Representative (2009 – 2015) 
  • Treasurer of Holy Innocents Anglican Church, St. Thomas  (1981 – Present)

 

Community Awards
  • ​Anglican Church in the Province of the West Indies- Provincial Congress Award (2013)
  • The Parish of St. Thomas Community Award (2003)