College of Professional Studies
The Dunham School of Business

Accounting Faculty:

David Diehl | Tim Moran | Len Scholl | Mary Tarling

David W. Diehl, M.B.A., C.P.A.
Visiting Instructor, Accounting
ddiehl@aurora.edu
630-844-4933

• B.S., Honors, Magna Cum Laude, Loyola University of Chicago
• M.B.A., Loyola University of Chicago

David is currently a Visiting Instructor of Business in the Dunham School of Business at Aurora University. He has taught a wide array of business disciplines including accounting, finance, marketing/sales, and business strategy at both Aurora University and Fontbonne University in St. Louis.
David’s business experience includes four years practice as a C.P.A. with a national firm followed by over twenty years service as a financial, sales and general manager with a variety of leaders in the technology industry. David also founded and served as President of Marketing Technologies, Inc. 
David is presently completing his M.S. degree in education with an emphasis in classroom teaching at Missouri Baptist University.  He is also in the midst of completing qualifying examinations for the Certified Management Accountant designation

Timothy J. Moran, CPA, MBA
Dunham School of Business
tmoran@aurora.edu
630-844-7805

• BBA in Public Accounting, Loyola University of Chicago
• MBA, University of St. Francis

Currently I am an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Aurora University teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate business programs. I have over twenty-three years of experience in accounting and auditing, including extensive experience as an instructor and researcher. I have also taught accounting and a variety of business courses at East-West University, College of DuPage and Robert Morris College.

My career includes fourteen years in public accounting starting as a staff accountant, progressing eventually to Technical Audit Manager responsible for quality control, technical research, quality review and teaching continuing education seminars. The most recent six years of my career have been in the private sector working as a controller, consulting on special projects and eventually Chief Financial Officer of two commodity futures firms.

My areas of interests revolve around small to medium sized entrepreneurial businesses and their ability to thrive and adapt to difficult and changing economic realities.

Len Scholl, CPA
Assistant Professor of Accounting
lscholl@aurora.edu
630-844-6895

• BBA, University of Cincinnati
• MBA, Xaiver University

I am a CPA who has been teaching for approximately 12 years, primarily at the University of Cincinnati and, for the past four years, at AU.

After Graduating from the University of Cincinnati, I received my MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati and spent six years in the audit division of a national CPA firm. Subsequently, I became Chief Financial Officer at three manufacturing companies in the Cincinnati area, over a span of 25 years.

My teaching philosophy is a combination of business applications and textbook theory. I encourage all of our business students to take my taxes class (ACC3310), for they will get hands-on experience through our VITA program in preparing taxes for the Aurora community.

I enjoy all sports and I have been a volunteer basketball coach at the YMCA for four years, working with second, third, and fourth graders.

Mary K. Tarling, CPA, MBA
Assistant Professor of Accounting
mtarling@aurora.edu
630-844-7802

• BS in Accounting, Northern Illinois University
• MBA, Benedictine University

Prior to coming to Aurora University in 2004, I had been teaching since 1999 at Robert Morris College and Waubonsee Valley Community College.  Prior to that, I was employed in the real estate development, health care and telecommunications industries, under various titles culminating in the CFO position that I now occupy for a local telecommunications consulting firm.  I also service several independent clients and provide consulting services as opportunities arise.

My teaching philosophy revolves around my belief that wherever there is a willing student and a focused, student-centered teacher, any student can succeed.  I teach various courses concentrated in accounting, business and interdisciplinary studies.