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Sikka worked in corporate accountancy during the 1970s, before joining North East London
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Sikka is an outspoken critic of the accounting profession, particularly with regard to its roles in auditing public corporations and helping transnational corporations avoid taxes. He has written about auditing failures, corporate governance issues, money laundering, insolvency and
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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
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He describes his hobbies as "travel, movies, table-tennis, badminton, music, Bollywood (1960s and 1970s), supporting West Ham, afflicting the comfortable and tormenting dinosaurs".
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Sikka's academic research has examined problems in auditing, tax avoidance, corporate social responsibility, and corporate governance. According to
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Sikka's active use of the media as an academic to criticise the accounting profession has itself been the subject of academic research.
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Sikka's research has been described as being about the "dark side of capitalism". In May 2017 Sikka featured in the documentary
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Lawrence, S.; Low, M.; Sharma, U. (2010). "Prem Sikka and the media: using the media to hold accountants to account".
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Illuminating the state-profession relationship: accountants acting as department of trade and industry investigators
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Guardians of
Knowledge and Public Interest: Evidence and Issues of Accountability in the UK Accountancy Profession
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Sikka migrated to the UK from India with his family in 1966, and left school two years later with five passes at
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Globalization and the state–profession relationship: the case the Bank of Credit and
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Ethical statements as smokescreens for sectional interests: The case of the UK accountancy profession
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The power of independence: defending and extending the jurisdiction of accounting in the UK
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The mountains are still there: Accounting academics and the bearings of intellectuals
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The dark side of transfer pricing: Its role in tax avoidance and wealth retentiveness
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The impossibility of eliminating the expectations gap: some theory and evidence
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Sweeping it under the carpet: The role of accountancy firms in moneylaundering
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The role of accountancy firms in tax avoidance: Some evidence and issues
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Enterprise culture and accountancy firms: new masters of the universe
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Smoke and mirrors: Corporate social responsibility and tax avoidance
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Mitchell, A., Puxty, T., Sikka, P., & Willmott, H. (1994).
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Radicalizing accounting history: the potential of oral history
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Sikka, P., Puxty, A., Willmott, H., & Cooper, C. (1998).
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Accounting for change: The institutions of accountancy
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