Professor Collins Ntim

Collins' teaching interests cut across Accounting, Accountability, Finance and Governance, having taught modules, such as: 

• Business Finance; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Financial Accounting;

• Management Accounting; and Research Methods to undergraduate, postgraduate and professional accounting and finance students.

Current Teaching:

• MANG6562 – Executive Compensation

• MANG6196 Accounting – Managing and Measuring Performance

Professor Collins Ntim is a Professor of Accounting and was previously the Deputy Head (Dean) of School within the Business School at the University of Southampton, as well as holds PhD (Glasgow), MRes (Glasgow), MSc (Leicester), and BSc (Ghana) degrees in accounting and finance. 

He has also previously held junior (Lecturer), mid-career (Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor) and senior (Full Professor, Associate Dean and Head of Department) academic roles at Aberystwyth University, University of Glasgow and University of Huddersfield. 

Collins was a full panel member of the UK 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) Sub-Panel 17: Business and Management Studies, and re-appointed in September 2025 to serve on the same Sub-Panel 17 for UK REF 2029. He is the current President of the British Accounting and Finance Association. He also led the development of Ghana's National Corporate Governance Code in collaboration with the Institute of Directors-Ghana and other major national and international stakeholders, as well as given oral evidence to the Public Accounts Committee of the UK Parliament.

He is known internationally for his research in Accounting, Accountability, Finance, Governance, Development and Sustainability, especially Accounting and Governance (corporate governance and financial reporting – market-based accounting research); Accountability, Development, Ethics and Sustainability (social & environmental accounting – corporate social responsibility, and sustainability accounting & reporting); and Finance & Development (corporate finance – market-based finance research and financial economics – development finance). 

Collins has published over 160 peer-reviewed outputs, with over 80% appearing in FT 50, ABS 4*/3* and ABDC A*/A internationally leading journals, such as the Abacus; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; British Accounting Review; British Journal of Management; Business & Society; Corporate Governance: An International Review; Journal of Business Ethics; The International Journal of Accounting;  The Leadership Quarterly; and Work, Employment & Society, amongst many others. 

His work has featured frequently in reputable popular media channels, including TV (e.g., TRT World, Sky, UK), Radio (e.g., BBC 5live) and the Financial Press (e.g., Financial Times, UK) around the world, as well as cited widely by peers, policymakers (e.g., Given Oral Evidence to The Public Accounts Committee, UK Parliament, and The Low Pay Commission, UK), and practitioners. 

He has served and continue to serve in different editorial roles for a number of top academic journals, including as:

Deputy Editor (Business and Society; & Organization and Environment).

Associate Editor (Accounting Forum; British Accounting Review; Business and Society; Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies; & Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies; Business Ethics Environment & Responsibility (2021-2025); Journal of Financial Reporting & Accounting (2016-2018); African Review of Economics and Finance (2013-2020);

Africa Specialist/Section Editor (Journal of Accounting Literature); 

Guest Editor (Accounting Forum; Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation; & Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2017-2021); 

Editorial Board Member (e.g., Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Corporate Governance: An International Review; Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation; Journal of Management Studies; & The International Journal of Accounting, etc);

Co-Founding Editor (Journal of Sustainable Finance & Accounting; Cogent Business & Management (2014-2024);

Editor-in-Chief (African Accounting and Finance Journal(2023-2025); and

Reviewer for several internationally leading academic journals (e.g., Abacus; Academy of Management Learning & Education; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; Accounting and Business Research; British Journal of Management; Corporate Governance: An International Review; European Accounting Review; Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Public Management Review, etc);

Reviewer for Research Councils (e.g., British Academy; ESRC, and EPSRC, UK; and Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, Canada, etc); and

Reviewer for Academic Bodies and Conferences (e.g., Associate Editor/Reviewer for the Academy of Management Annual Conference, African Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference, British Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference, and European International Business Academy Annual Conference, etc), as well as external examiner of degree programmes at a number of universities. 

Collins has presented his research at a large number of top national and international conferences (e.g., Academy of Management; Academy of Sustainable Finance, Accounting and Governance; African Accounting and Finance Association; American Accounting Association; British Academy of Management; British Accounting and Finance Association; and European Accounting Association), workshops, and seminars in various countries, as well as won competitive internal and external research grant awards of total value of over £0.6m from reputable funding bodies, such as the Economic and Social Research Council, UK, Financial Reporting Council, UK, and World Bank. 

His teaching interests cut across Accounting, Accountability, Finance and Governance, having taught modules, such as Business Finance; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Financial Accounting; Management Accounting; and Research Methods to undergraduate, postgraduate and professional accounting and finance students.