Trevor Boyns (born 1953) is a British business historian and Professor of Accounting & Business History at the

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, known for his work in the field of the

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and

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Biography

Boyns obtained his

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in mathematics and economics in 1974 from the

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, and his PhD in econometric history in 1982 from the

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Professor Trevor Boyns, Professor of Accounting & Business History
at ''business.cardiff.ac.uk.'' Accessed 11.2014. with the thesis, entitled "Labour productivity in the British coal industry, 1874-1913." Boyns 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. He initially focussed his research on the economic and business history of the British coal industry, particularly about the

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but in the 1990s started focussing his research on the

. Boyns has been President of the Association of Business Historians, and founding editor or the ''Accounting, Business & Financial History.''Geoffrey Jones, Jonathan Zeitlin (2008). ''The Oxford Handbook of Business History.'' p. xii.

Selected publications

* Trevor Boyns, Malcolm Anderson, J. R. Edwards (eds.). ''British Cost Accounting, 1887-1952: Contemporary Essays from the Accounting literature.'' 1996/2014 * Boyns, Trevor, John Richard Edwards, and Marc Nikitin. ''The birth of industrial accounting in France and Britain.'' Taylor & Francis, 1997/2013. * Trevor Boyns, J. R. Edwards. ''A History of Management Accounting: The British Experience.'' 2012. Articles, a selection: * Edwards, John Richard, and Trevor Boyns. "Industrial organization and accounting innovation: charcoal ironmaking in England 1690–1783." ''Management Accounting Research'' 3.2 (1992): 151–169. * Edwards, John Richard, Trevor Boyns, and Malcolm Anderson. "British cost accounting development: continuity and change." ''The Accounting Historians Journal'' (1995): 1-41. * Boyns, Trevor, and John Richard Edwards. "The development of accounting in mid-nineteenth century Britain: a non-disciplinary view." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 9.3 (1996): 40–60. * Boyns, Trevor, and John Richard Edwards. "Cost and management accounting in early Victorian Britain: a Chandleresque analysis?." ''Management Accounting Research'' 8.1 (1997): 19–46. * Boyns, Trevor, and John Richard Edwards. "The Construction of Cost Accounting Systems in Britain to 1900: The Case of the Coal, Iron and Steel Industries 1." ''Business History'' 39.3 (1997): 1-29. * Boyns, Trevor, and John Richard Edwards.
The development of cost and management accounting in Britain
" ''Handbooks of Management Accounting Research'' 2 (2006): 969–1034.

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