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] Boyns 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."
Boyns spends his academic career at the Cardiff University, where he started in 1976 as tutorial fellow.
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 South Wales Coalfield but in the 1990s started focussing his research on the history of accountancy.