Trevor Boyns

Trevor Boyns (born 1953) is a British business historian and Professor of Accounting & Business History at the Cardiff University, known for his work in the field of the history of accountancy[1] and business history.[2]

Biographie

Trevor obtained his first class degree in mathematics and economics in 1974 from the University of Warwick, and his PhD in econometric history in 1982 from the University of Wales[3] with the thesis, entitled "Labour productivity in the British coal industry, 1874-1913."

Trevor spends his academic career at the Cardiff University, where he started in 1976 as tutorial fellow. In 1978 he was appointed lecturer, in 1997 senior lecturer and in 2004 Professor of Accounting & Business History. Nowadays in 2014 he is also Director of Undergraduate Programmes for Economics. Trevor initially focussed his research on the economic and business history of the British coal industry, particularly about the South Wales Coalfield but in the 1990s started focussing his research on the history of accountancy.[3]

Trevor has been President of the Association of Business Historians, and founding editor or the Accounting, Business & Financial History.[4]

Selected publications

Articles, a selection:

References

  1. Hoskin, Keith W., and Richard H. Macve. "Knowing more as knowing less? Alternative histories of cost and management accounting in the US and the UK." The Accounting Historians Journal (2000): 91-149.
  2. Carnegie, Garry D., and Christopher J. Napier. "Critical and interpretive histories: insights into accounting’s present and future through its past." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 9.3 (1996): 7-39.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Professor Trevor Boyns, Professor of Accounting & Business History at business.cardiff.ac.uk. Accessed 11.2014.
  4. Geoffrey Jones, Jonathan Zeitlin (2008). The Oxford Handbook of Business History. p. xii.

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