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270

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Overview

Prem Sikka is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences and economics, focusing on areas that intersect political and economic dimensions as well as finance.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

They have contributed specifically to subfields such as:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Public Administration
  • Finance

The research topics covered in their work revolve around:

  • Political and Economic history of UK and US
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Global Financial Regulation and Crises

Prem Sikka has published in the International Journal of Auditing, where they have at least one recorded paper:

  • "The UK government audit reforms fail to deal with the audit crisis," published in 2022 in the International Journal of Auditing

The body of work reflects their engagement with current issues in public policy, financial oversight, and the consequences of regulatory measures in the UK, particularly through their critical examination of government audit reforms.

Best Publications

  • Financial Crisis and the Silence of the Auditors

    Prem Sikka

  • Smoke and mirrors: Corporate social responsibility and tax avoidance

    Prem Sikka

  • The dark side of transfer pricing: Its role in tax avoidance and wealth retentiveness

    Prem Sikka;Hugh Willmott

  • The power of “independence”: defending and extending the jurisdiction of accounting in the United Kingdom

    Prem Sikka;Hugh Willmott

  • THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ELIMINATING THE EXPECTATIONS GAP: SOME THEORY AND EVIDENCE

    Prem Sikka;Anthony Puxty;Hugh Willmott;Christine Cooper

  • Globalization and the state–profession relationship: the case the Bank of Credit and Commerce International

    Patricia J. Arnold;Prem Sikka

  • Enterprise Culture and Accountancy Firms: New Masters of The Universe

    Prem Sikka

  • The role of accountancy firms in tax avoidance: Some evidence and issues

    Prem Sikka;Mark P. Hampton

  • Guardians of Knowledge and Public Interest: Evidence and Issues of Accountability in the UK Accountancy Profession.

    Prem Sikka;Hugh Willmott;Tony Lowe

  • Radicalizing accounting history: the potential of oral history

    Theresa Hammond;Prem Sikka

  • Sweeping it under the carpet: The role of accountancy firms in moneylaundering

    A. Mitchell;P. Sikka;H. Willmott

  • Professionalizing Claims and the State of UK Professional Accounting Education: Some Evidence

    Prem Sikka;Colin Haslam;Orthodoxia Kyriacou;Dila Agrizzi

  • Ethical statements as smokescreens for sectional interests: The case of the UK accountancy profession

    Austin Mitchell;Tony Puxty;Prem Sikka;Hugh Willmott

  • Accounting for human rights: The challenge of globalization and foreign investment agreements

    Prem Sikka

  • The role of offshore financial centres in globalization

    Prem Sikka

  • The mountains are still there: Accounting academics and the bearings of intellectuals

    Prem Sikka;Hugh Willmott;Tony Puxty

  • Illuminating the State-Profession Relationship: Accountants acting as Department of trade and Industry Investigators

    Prem Sikka;Hugh Willmott

  • Accounting For Change: The Institutions of Accountancy

    Austin Mitchell;Prem Sikka

  • The audit crunch: reforming auditing

    Prem Sikka;Steven Filling;Pik Kun Liew

  • The supply-side of corruption and limits to preventing corruption within government procurement and constructing ethical subjects

    Prem Sikka;Glen Lehman

  • Philosophy and principles of auditing: An introduction: D. Flint Macmillan (Basingstoke, 1988). 191 pp. £9.95 (pbk); £30 (hbk)

    Prem Sikka

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Willmott
Hugh Willmott City, University of London
Martin Parker
Martin Parker University of Bristol
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan University of Bristol
Rob Gray
Rob Gray University of East Anglia
David Power
David Power University of Dundee
David J. Cooper
David J. Cooper University of Alberta
Chris Carter
Chris Carter University of Edinburgh

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