Office: Hilton 319
Phone: 310.338.7660
Email: fdaroca@lmu.edu
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Areas of Expertise
• Managerial Accounting
• Auditing
• Accounting Principles
Biography
Frank Daroca has been an accounting professor in the College of Business since 1986 and teaches auditing and managerial accounting. He served as chair of the Department of Accounting from 1990 to 1998. Prior academic positions were at Illinois State University and the University of Southern California. Before joining academia, he spent ten years in “Big Four” public accounting and as controller in the oil and gas industry. Daroca is a Certified Public Accountant in Illinois and Louisiana and a member of the American Accounting Association. He has been named Faculty of the Year by LMU's MBA Association and Teacher of the Year by LMU's accounting majors. He has consulted with organizations such as the California State Controller’s Office, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Nestlé and the California CPA Foundation for Education and Research.
Education
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PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1981) |
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University of New Orleans (1974) |
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University of New Orleans (1964) |
Publications
• "CEO Compensation, Firm Performance and Operational Characteristics," (with Mahmoud M. Nourayi), Managerial Finance, Vol. 34(8), August 2008 (in press).
• “Will of the People: A Measurement Perspective,” (with Mahmoud M. Nourayi), Commentaries on Law and Economics, Vol. 2, 2005, pp. 285-303.
• “Taking Stock of Auditor Independence” (with Andrea Daroca), Government Finance Review, Vol. 18(5), October 2002, pp. 8-11.
• “Decline in Ethics May Be Bigger Enron Picture,” Accounting Today, April 22-May 5, 2002, pp. 6-7.