Beyer is a professor of accounting at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Michelle R. Clayman Faculty Scholar for 2008–09 and 2010–13. She teaches the introductory class in financial accounting and received the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2013.

Beyer’s research focuses on corporate disclosure, information economics, and corporate governance. Her recent work examines the properties of financial analysts’ and management’s earnings forecasts, as well as investors’ reaction to earnings forecasts and other forms of corporate disclosures. This work includes studying managers’ and analysts’ incentives to bias forecasts and investors’ inferences about firms’ performance based on earnings forecasts.

Native to Germany, Beyer attended the University of Stuttgart and the University of Wales, Swansea, prior to moving to the U.S. for her doctoral studies. She received her PhD in accounting from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Beyer maintains a love for the outdoors, running, and travel.