Frank Daroca, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Accounting, College of Business Administration | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Biography
You can contact Frank Daroca at frank.daroca@lmu.edu.
Frank Daroca retired from LMU in 2012 after 26 years as an accounting professor at the College of Business Administration. He came to LMU in 1986 and taught over a thousand students in auditing, managerial accounting and decision-making information. He also spent over a decade teaching accounting in the MBA core curriculum. Daroca served as chair of the Department of Accounting from 1990 to 1998. He has been honored several times over the years, including Faculty of the Year by LMU's MBA Association and Teacher of the Year by LMU's accounting majors. Daroca earned his Ph.D. in accounting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his M.S. and B.S. in accounting from the University of New Orleans.
Before joining academia, he spent 10 years in “Big Four” public accounting and as a Fortune 500 controller in the oil and gas industry. Prior to LMU, Daroca taught accounting courses at Illinois State University and USC. He is a certified public accountant in Illinois and Louisiana and a member of the American Accounting Association.
Daroca has authored or co-authored dozens of papers in academic and practitioner journals, including the Journal of Applied Business Research, The CPA Journal, Government Finance Review and Accounting, Organizations and Society.
