Professor William Nixon

Bill is Emeritus Professor in Accounting. He joined the University of Dundee in 1982 and is currently a part-time   lecturer on the Strategic Management Accounting module (5SMA) which he created and has developed since 2006.

Professor Nixon obtained a BComm from University College Dublin, an MBA from Warwick Business School and a PhD on Accounting for Research and Development from University of Dundee. He trained and qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse.

After qualifying, he worked for the parent company of Thorn-EMI between 1970 and 1981 as a group internal audit manager with responsibility for liaison with external auditors and conducting investigations.

Bill has published extensively in professional and peer-reviewed journals in four disparate areas, namely R&D Management, Financial Reporting, Management Accounting Research and Management. He was an editorial board member of the journal R&D Management for 15 years.

Bill is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and a retired member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, as well as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.