College of Arts and Sciences — Environmental Management — Adjunct
School of Management — Accounting

Diane Roberts

Department Chair / Professor

Roberts is a Professor of Accounting at the University of San Francisco. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Davis, a M.S. in Accounting from California State University, Sacramento, and a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of California, Irvine.

Education

Ph.D., Accounting, University of California, Irvine 1995

Administrative Appointments

American Accounting Association Professionalism and Ethics Committee
Director, 15th Annual Ethics Research Symposium hosted by American Accounting Association Professionalism and Ethics Committee

Teaching
  • BUS 320 Intermediate Accounting I
  • BUS 429 Contemporary Accounting Topics
  • MSEM 661 Environmental Accounting
Publications

"Changing Legitimacy Narratives About Professional Ethics and Independence in the 1930's Journal of Accountancy," Accounting Historians Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2.forthcoming December, 2010

"Benediction for a journal. International Journal of Critical Accounting.2010 (forthcoming)

"One World GAAP." International Journal of Critical Accounting. Volume 2, No. 1, 110. 2010.

"The Alchemy of Earnings Management," Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 18, 558. 2007.

"Sustainability Reporting Practices in Portugal: Greenwashing or Triple Bottom Line?," International Business and Economics Research Journal, Volume 6, Number 9, September, 29-40. 2007 withJohn P. Koeplin.

"The winter of our investments," Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 17, 882. 2006.