Dr Helen Roberts
Tel 64 3 479 8072
Room: Commerce 549
Email hroberts@business.otago.ac.nz
Advisor of Studies - Honours Programme
2010 Teaching
- BSNS101 Accounting and Financial Information (Summer School, 2010)
- FINC201 Financial Management (Semester 2, 2010)
Research Interests
In August 2007, Helen graduated with her doctorate, which investigated the relationship between CEO compensation, firm performance and corporate governance. Helen's research interests include CEO compensation and firm performance, corporate governance and the valuation of equity incentives used in compensation agreements.
Refereed Journal Articles
“Valuing Employee Stock Options: Implications for the implementation of NZIFRS 2” (with Glenn Boyle and Stefan Clyne), Pacific Accounting Review, Vol 18, No.1, pp3-20 (2006).
Refereed Conference Proceedings
“How Much Do Employee Stock Options Really Cost?”, (with Glenn Boyle and Stefen Clyne) in Proceedings of the 17th Asian Finance Association and Financial Management Association Conference, Auckland, July (2006).
Conference Attendance
“Do Highly Paid CEOs Led to Highly Paid Executive Directors and Executive Employees?”, University of Otago Business School Doctoral Colloquium, October (2006).
“CEO Pay Disclosure, Performance Sensitivity, Asymmetry and CEO Participation in the Pay-Setting Process: Who Controls CEO Pay?”, Asian Finance Association and Financial Management Association Doctoral Symposium, Auckland, July (2006).
“CEO Compensation in New Zealand 1997-2002”, New Zealand Finance Colloquium, January (2005).
“Growth in CEO Pay, Change in Shareholder Wealth and CEO Involvement in the Pay-Setting Process”. Paper presented by Helen Roberts at the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Doctoral Colloquium, Melbourne, Australia, (2005).
“Corporate Governance, CEO Compensation and Firm Performance”. Paper presented by Helen Roberts at the Doctoral Colloquium, European Financial Management Association Conference, Helsinki, Finland, (2003).