Mr. James C. Kalanje

James C. Kalanje is an Assistant Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, working under the Department of Accounting and Finance of the Faculty of Business Management of the Open University of Tanzania. At the faculty level he is the current Faculty’s Coordinator of MBA Distance Programme, Faculty Planner and Faculty Board Member while at University level he is among the members of secretariat of the OUT Rolling Strategic Plan as well as Library Board Committee. He joined the Open University of Tanzania in 2005 as a Tutorial Assistant after been teaching Kinondoni Municipal schools for about eighteen years. First with a B.Com (Hons) degree from the Open University of Tanzania, he later graduated in MBA (Finance and Banking) at Mzumbe University main campus, Morogoro. His professional credentials include: Certified Public Accountant (CPA [T]), National Board of Accountants and Auditors, 2007; Certified Procurement and Supplies Profession (CPSP[T]) Procurement and Supplies Professionals and Technicians Board, 2010 and Certificate in Education, Mkwawa Teachers’ Training College, 1987. Teaching interests include Financial and Managerial accounting, Costing Accounting, International Finance, Investment Analysis and Management, Decision Making Techniques, Business Mathematics, and Quantitative Methods, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research is focused on corporate financing, project management, and international business.