Anne Beyer

The Staehelin Family Professor of Accounting
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Bio

Beyer is The Staehelin Family Professor of Accounting at Stanford Graduate School of Business. After teaching the introductory class in financial accounting for many years, Beyer now teaches the elective Financial Management for Entrepreneurs, a course that aims to provide future CEOs and CFOs with the necessary tools for successfully managing financial aspects of entrepreneurial ventures. Beyer received the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2013, Stanford University’s Walter J. Gore Award in 2014, the MSx Teaching Excellence Award in 2018, and the PhD Faculty Distinguished Service Award in 2021.

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.

Administrative Titles

Co-Director, Stanford dy/dx
Co-Director, Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive
Co-Director, Directors’ Consortium

Academic Degrees

  • PhD, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, 2006
  • Diplom Kauffrau, University of Stuttgart, 2001

Academic Appointments

  • Stanford University, 2006–present

Awards and Honors

  • Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, Judge School of Business, 2018–present
  • Philip F. Maritz Faculty Fellow, 2023–24
  • PhD Faculty Distinguished Service Award, Stanford GSB, 2021
  • R. Michael Shanahan Faculty Scholar, 2018–19
  • R. Michael Shanahan Faculty Scholar, Stanford GSB, 2010–13, 2018–19
  • MSx Teaching Excellence Award, Stanford GSB, 2018
  • Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford University, 2014
  • MBA Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford GSB, 2013
  • German National Academic Foundation, 1997–2001

Service to the Profession

    • Associate Editor, Journal of Accounting and Economics

    Research Statement

    Anne Beyer’s research interest is in the area of financial accounting with a focus on corporate disclosure, capital market prices, and corporate governance. Recent work has examined the properties of analyst and management earnings forecasts as well as investors’ reaction to different kinds of corporate disclosures.

    Journal Articles

    Anne Beyer, Ronald A. Dye
    Management Science
    July 2023 Vol. 69 Issue 7 Pages 3759–4361
    Anne Beyer, Kevin Smith
    Journal of Accounting and Economics (advance online)
    March 18, 2021
    Anne Beyer, Ronald A. Dye
    The Accounting Review
    August 2020 Vol. 96 Issue 4
    Anne Beyer, Ilan Guttman, Iván Marinovic
    The Account Review
    July 2019 Vol. 94 Issue 4 Pages 77-101
    Jeremy Bertomeu, Anne Beyer, Daniel J. Taylor
    Foundations & Trends in Accounting
    August 17, 2016 Vol. 10 Issue 2-4 Pages 179-236
    Anne Beyer, Iván Marinovic, Ilan Guttman
    Journal of Accounting Research
    September 2014 Vol. 52 Issue 4 Pages 817-847
    Anne Beyer, Ilan Guttman
    Journal of Accounting Research
    December 2012 Vol. 50 Issue 5 Pages 1141–1177
    Jeremy Bertomeu, Anne Beyer, Ronald A. Dye
    The Accounting Review
    May 2011 Vol. 86 Issue 3 Pages 857-886
    Anne Beyer, Ilan Guttman
    The Accounting Review
    March 2011 Vol. 86 Issue 2 Pages 451-481
    Anne Beyer, Daniel Cohen, Thomas Lys, Beverly Walther
    Journal of Accounting and Economics
    2010 Vol. 50 Issue 2–3 Pages 296–343
    Anne Beyer
    The Accounting Review
    November 2009 Vol. 84 Issue 6 Pages 1713-1747
    Anne Beyer
    Journal of Accounting and Economics
    2008 Vol. 46 Issue 2-3 Pages 334–348
    Anne Beyer, Sri S. Sridhar
    Journal of Accounting Research
    March 2006 Vol. 44 Issue 1 Pages 29-51

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    Cases

    Anne Beyer, Rob Siegel, Jose Ignacio Garcia Suarez
    2024
    Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Alessia Morales
    2023
    Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Patrick Robinson
    2023
    Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Andrew Freiman
    2023
    Robert Siegel, Anne Beyer, Andrew Freiman
    2023
    Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Dominic Mirabile
    2022
    Anne Beyer, Robert E Siegel, Donna Bebb
    2022
    Anne Beyer, Robert E. Siegel, Amadeus Orleans
    2022
    Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Gelila Bekele
    2022
    Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Gelila Bekele
    2022
    Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Gelila Bekele
    2022
    Anne Beyer, Jaclyn Foroughi
    2018
    Anne Beyer, Jaclyn Foroughi
    2018
    Anne Beyer, Jaclyn Foroughi
    2015
    Madhav Rajan, Anne Beyer, Jaclyn Foroughi
    2014
    Madhav Rajan, Anne Beyer, Jaclyn Foroughi
    2014
    Bethany Coates, R. Ellis, Lisa Sweeney, Anne Beyer
    2010

    Insights by Stanford Business

    March 15, 2023
    Does prohibiting managers from issuing incomplete disclosures lead them to reveal more information?
    August 01, 2007
    Research explores the reliability of auditors' financial reports.

    School News

    May 20, 2022
    Stanford dy/dx launches with help from top venture capital firms.
    July 13, 2021
    Students in the MBA and PhD programs honored Rebecca Lester and Anne Beyer, respectively, for their outstanding teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    September 27, 2018
    Considering the future of management education as we welcome students back to campus.
    June 15, 2018
    Students in the MBA, PhD, and MSx programs honored Professors Amit Seru, Peter Reiss, and Anne Beyer, respectively, for their teaching and service.
    June 04, 2013
    Stanford GSB students honor three professors for their extraordinary teaching skill.