Diane Roberts

Professor of Accounting

Tel: 415-422-6380
Fax: 415-422-2502
TDD: 415-422-6439
robertsd@usfca.edu

University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, Malloy Hall
San Francisco, CA 94117-1045 U.S.A.

• Ph.D., Accounting, University of California, Irvine 1995
• MS, Accounting, California State University, Sacramento 1980
• BA, Economics, University of California, Davis 1975

• BA428: Accounting for Non-Profits

• At the University of San Francisco since 1995
• Member, Peer Review Committee, School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco (2004-2007)
• Member, University Blackboard Committee (2004 - present)
• Member, University Library Committee (2004 - present)
• Chair, Undergraduate Program Committee, School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco (2003- 2004).
• Member, Executive Council, School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco (2002 - present)
• Chair, Academic Standards Committee, School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco (2002 - 2003).
• Teaching Area Coordinator, Accounting Area, School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco (2000 - 2003)
• Faculty Advisor, Omicron Delta Epsilon Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (1994 - present)

• "The Alchemy of Earnings Management." Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2007. (forthcoming)
• "Sustainability Reporting Practices in Portugal:  Greenwashing or Triple Bottom Line?" XI Accounting Congress Portugal, November 2006. With John Koeplin.
• "The winter of our investments." Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Volume 17, page 882, 2006.
• "A Song From the Corporate Woods," Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, 301, 2005. Special issue on the Sacred Secular Divide.
• "Long Term Construction Contracts" in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Second Edition, Accounting Volume, 2005.
• Frequent contributor to Critical Perspectives on Accounting since 2001: "Intangible Assets," "Ode to an Asset," " The Secret Life of Abaci," "The Lion's Mouth" (in the special issue on Accounting and Empire), "Transparency" and "The Grand Illusion".
• "Loss Contingency Disclosure: Are Stakeholders Being Served?" Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Madrid, Spain, July, 2003. Published in the Proceedings. With John Koeplin.
• "Impact of Cognitive Moral Judgment Ability on Knowledge of Red Flags." Research on Accounting Ethics, Volume 8, pages 125-143, 2002. Note: This paper won the third McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics in 2000. The prize carried with it a plaque and a cash award of $10,000. With John P. Koeplin

• Paper Reviewer, Journal of the Academy of Business Education, 2001 to present

• Co-Outstanding Faculty Teacher EPMBA 2004 Cohort
• Outstanding Service Award, School of Business and Management, 2003.
• Winner (with John Koeplin) of the Third Annual Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics given by the Michael F. Price College of Business School of Accounting, University of Oklahoma, 2000. Prize of $10,000 given for the best-unpublished paper on accounting ethics.
• Certified Management Accountant, 2001.
• Certified in Financial Management, 2002.
• Alpha Sigma Nu, 1999.