Stephen Ryan

Professor of Accounting, Peat Marwick Faculty Fellow

Courses:

Areas of Expertise:

Financial Accounting
Financial Statement Analysis
Managerial Accounting
Use of Financial Accounting Information in Securities Markets, Financial Services, and Entertainment, Media and Technology Industries

Education:

Ph.D. (1988), Stanford University, Business
A.B. (1981), Dartmouth College, Economics and Philosophy

Biography:

Stephen G. Ryan is the Peat Marwick Faculty Fellow and a professor of accounting at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Ryan teaches two unique financial analysis courses developed at Stern: 1) Analysis of Financial Institutions and Financial Instruments and 2) Accounting and Valuation Issues in the Entertainment, Media and Technology Industries.

Professor Ryan has been at Stern since 1990. His primary research areas include accounting measurement, accounting-based valuation and risk assessment, and financial reporting by financial institutions and for financial instruments. Professor Ryan has published in numerous journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Accounting Horizons and Financial Analysts Journal. He is also the author of Financial Instruments and Institutions: Accounting and Disclosure Rules, first edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2002) and second edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2007). Before joining Stern, Professor Ryan worked at Yale School of Organization and Management and Bain and Company.

Professor Ryan is actively involved in financial accounting standards setting. He currently serves on the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Liabilities and Equity Resource and Financial Institutions Advisory groups. Until 2003, he was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, the advisory body for the Financial Accounting Standards Board. He has also previously chaired the American Accounting Association’s Financial Accounting Standards and Financial Reporting Issues Conference committees. Professor Ryan has served as the editor of the Review of Accounting Studies since 2006.

Professor Ryan received his Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and his Doctor of Philosophy in business from Stanford University.