Anne Beyer

Professor, Accounting
(650) 736-0605

Anne Beyer

The Staehelin Family Professor of Accounting

Philip F. Maritz Faculty Fellow for 2023-2024
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Additional Administrative Titles

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

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.

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.

Academic Degrees

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

Academic Appointments

  • At Stanford University since 2006

Awards and Honors

  • PhD Faculty Distinguished Service Award, Stanford GSB, 2021
  • Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, Judge School of Business 2018 - current
  • MSx Teaching Excellence Award, Stanford GSB, 2018
  • R. Michael Shanahan Faculty Scholar, 2018-2019
  • Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford University, 2014
  • MBA Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford GSB, 2013
  • R. Michael Shanahan Faculty Scholar, Stanford GSB, 2010–13, 2018–19
  • German National Academic Foundation, 1997–2001

Publications

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

Teaching

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Stanford Case Studies

Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Alessia Morales
2023
Anne Beyer, Robert Siegel, Patrick Robinson
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

Service to the Profession

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Accounting and Economics

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.