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British accounting academic (born 1951)

Prem Nath Sikka, Baron Sikka (born 1 August 1951)^[1] is a British-Indian accountant and academic.

He holds the position of Professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield, and is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex.

Life and career

Sikka migrated to the UK from India with his family in 1966, and left school two years later with five passes at CSE.^[2][3] He has said of his parents that they "were working-class people – and work killed them in the end": his mother died at the age of 53 and his father, a Labour Party activist, died at 59.

He then became an accounts clerk with an insurance broker in London. He pursued his education via part-time study, gaining O-levels and A-levels before qualifying as a Chartered Certified Accountant from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in 1977.^[3]

Sikka worked in corporate accountancy dur