Darren Roulstone

Background

Professor Roulstone conducts research on the role of information intermediaries in capital markets.  He currently serves as an Associate Editor at Management Science and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, C_ontemporary Accounting Research_, and the Review of Accounting Studies. During 20132016, he served as PresidentElect, President, and Immediate PastPresident of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association.  Since 2008 he has served as director of the AMIS PhD program.

Professor Roulstone teaches the core financial reporting class in the MAcc program and a doctoral seminar on capital markets research. He previously taught intermediate accounting in the undergraduate program and the core financial accounting course and a financial statement analysis elective in the MBA program. Prior to joining Fisher, he spent eight years as an assistant and associate professor of accounting at the University of Chicago''s Booth School of Business where he taught financial accounting and financial statement analysis in the MBA program. Professor Roulstone grew up on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. He received undergraduate and master''s degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University''s Marriott School of Management before receiving a PhD from the University of Michigan.

Awards

Outstanding Discussant Award FARS MidYear Meeting 2018 Fisher College of Business Distinguished Professor, 2016 Fisher Research Fellow, 2013, 2014 Third prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Annual Academic Competition, 2012 Centel Foundation/Robert P. Reuss Scholar—Booth, 20042005 Ernest R. Wish Accounting Research Award—Booth, 2002

Courses

ACCTMIS 6200 Financial Reporting

Examination of major aspects of corporate financial reporting by management under GAAP, including coverage of disclosures required for trade securities, tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, auditing, and financial analysis. Prereq: Enrollment in Master of Accounting Program. Not open to students with credit for 7200.