Christopher Armstrong
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Education
Ph.D., accounting, Stanford Graduate School of Business; M.P.A., accounting, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary of Experience
Professor Armstrong is an expert on corporate governance, executive compensation, debt contracting, corporate valuation, and financial reporting. He specializes in investigating how capital market participants – such as investors, analysts, boards, and regulators – use accounting information and other disclosures in decision making. Professor Armstrong has consulted to clients and filed expert reports on economic and accounting issues in matters involving insider trading, estate planning, and backdating contracts. His work has appeared in leading accounting and finance journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, The Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. Professor Armstrong has authored research articles on a variety of topics, including accounting quality, tax avoidance, financial misconduct, incentive structures, cost of capital, valuation, analyst forecasts, debt contracts, international accounting, and early-stage companies. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Economics and is an editor of The Accounting Review. He previously served on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting Research. Professor Armstrong is a research fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability at the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he was the EY Professor of Accounting at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received awards for his research and student mentorship. He is a certified public accountant (CPA) and worked for KPMG’s real estate tax practice prior to his academic career.