Rate My Professor Maria Dyball

Maria Cadiz Dyball is an Associate Professor in Accounting in the Discipline of Accounting, Governance and Regulation at the University of Sydney Business School. She holds a BSc and Bachelor of Accountancy (BAA) from institutions in the Philippines, as well as a Master of Commerce (Honours) and PhD from the University of New South Wales. Her career history includes serving as a Lecturer in the School of Accounting at UNSW Sydney from February 1995 to February 2004 and holding academic positions at Macquarie University. Since February 2015, she has been an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, where she supervises research students and teaches courses in research methodology, corporate governance, and management accounting.

Dyball's research specializations encompass the accounting profession, management control systems in inter-organisational relationships such as inter-firm innovation and media organizations, auditing, accountability, professional skepticism in audits, ethics in management accounting work, blockchain in accounting firms, procedural fairness, professionalization in Asia, ethics in accounting education, and stakeholder accountability in not-for-profit organizations. She has published key works in leading journals including Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Financial Accountability and Management, and Accounting History. Notable publications are 'The link between board composition and corporate diversification in Australian corporations' (Chen, Dyball, Wright, 2009), 'Accounting and empire: Professionalization-as-resistance: The case of Philippines' (Dyball, Poullaos, Chua, 2007), 'Client use of blockchain technology: exploring its (potential) impact on financial statement audits of Australian accounting firms' (Dyball, Seethamraju, 2022), and 'Teaching global ethical standards: A case and strategy for broadening the accounting ethics curriculum' (Tweedie, Dyball, Hazelton, Wright, 2013). Her contributions have earned the 2007 Mary Parker Follett Award for the most outstanding paper in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. Dyball serves on the editorial boards of Accounting History, Managerial Auditing Journal, and Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, as Associate Editor for Abacus, and as a member of the Research Panel for the CIMA Centre of Excellence Australasia.