# Prem Sikka

Prem Nath Sikka, Baron Sikka is a British 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. 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, passed away at 59.