Research interests include teaching pedagogy, environmental accounting and social responsibility and enterprise planning systems and business processes. Teaching Pedagogy The more I read about the change in organizational structure and the criticism of the current educational system, I become more convinced that in order to prepare students for their careers, the classroom environment must reflect the work environment. I am incorporating a number of changes in the classroom, which are in part directed by the research I am doing. I have two coauthored (Kay Glasgow and Carolyn Strand) papers submitted that discuss the changes we have made in the classroom. Environmental Accounting and Social Responsibility As a participant in the Cal Poly Land Seminar, I will be presenting a session on stewardship and the economic incentives to protect Cal Poly's land resources. -Determine whether investors value environmental disclosures made by firms in annual reports, Form 10-Ks, environmental reports and disclosed in firm websites. -The impact of environmental policy on accounting information -Further analysis on tax policy (e.g., the energy tax credits) -Audit issues associated with environmental contingent liabilities (e.g., disclosure of underground storage tanks) -The use of accounting information to price and regulate the use of scarce resources -Life Cycle Analysis and sustainability issues Enterprise planning systems and Business processes In conjunction with the Enterprise Wide Business Processes course development, I am studying (1) the analysis and mapping of business processes, and (2) various enterprise planning applications.
Articles
Creating Effective Teams in a Classroom Environment (with Cyndi A. Crother), Accounting Faculty Scholarship (2003)
For over a decade, companies have been concerned that new graduates are often not prepared...
Think Before for a Better After, The Bulletin of the Association of College Unions International (2003)
Think before you drive. Think before you trash it. Think before for a better after....
Making Better Use of Information: Aiming Towards "True North" (with William J. Bellows), Accounting Faculty Scholarship (2003)
'If I only had the right information, I could make an informed decision'. How often...
Training: A Powerful Way to Prevent Fraud (with Carolyn Strand and Steven L. Judd), Accounting Faculty Scholarship (2002)
Preventing fraud is a big responsibility for all levels of financial management— manager, controller, and...
An Evaluation of the Usefulness of Web-based Financial and Environmental Performance Information Provided by Oil and Gas Companies (with Carolyn A. Strand and Janice Carr), Accounting Faculty Scholarship (2002)
Environmentally conscious investors require financial information in addition to environmental information to evaluate a company's...
Contributions to Books
Stewardship, Accounting and Management, Cal Poly Land: A Field Guide (2002)
Previous chapters have described the vast array of resources that Cal Poly’s officials oversee. As...
Presentations
Making the Case for Sustainable Business Practices: An Introduction, Cal Poly Orfalea College of Business (2007)
Sustainable Accounting and Financial Management (with Doug Cerf and Arline Savage), Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) (2006)
Presented at AASHE 2006: The Role of Higher Education in Creating a Sustainable World