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Liz holds an M.S. in Statistics and a PhD in Business Administration, both from Stanford University, as well as B.A. and Masters of Accounting degrees from the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). Demers is also a Canadian Chartered Accountant, Certified Management Accountant and a Chartered Business Valuator. Before pursuing her PhD, Demers practiced as a Chartered Accountant specializing in business valuations and litigation accounting. Demers' consulting activities include the analysis of financial statements and accounting red flag reviews for hedge funds and other investment managers, litigation support for the quantification of economic damages in accounting fraud and high tech industry cases, and academic and teaching presentations to executives and finance practitioners. At INSEAD, Demers teaches financial statement analysis and financial accounting to MBA and MFIB students. Prior to joining INSEAD, she taught MBA and Executive MBA courses at the Wm. E. Simon School at the University of Rochester. She has been named to the MBA Dean’s Teaching Honor Roll at INSEAD and the Simon School on numerous occasions. Prof Demers has taught in graduate, executive, and professional programs in Canada, the US, Europe, Australia, and Asia, and she has presented her research to both academic and practitioner audiences around the world.
Demers' current research interests broadly relate to the use of accounting and non-financial information in making economic decisions about the firm. Her studies investigate IPO failure prediction, technology stock market bubbles, Internet stock valuations, the marketing role of IPOs, strategy and performance measurement in New Economy companies, the influence of CEO career concerns on earnings management, and the relation between managerial linguistic properties and various stock performance metrics. Other research interests include corporate equity valuations and risk management activities in the property-casualty insurance industry, for which she was one of six winners of the KPMG/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Competitive Manuscript Competition. Her studies have been published in the top academic accounting and finance journals, including the Review of Accounting Studies, the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Financial Economics. Her work has also been cited in Fortune, Forbes, The Industry Standard, eCompany, and Money magazine, and her research has been funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (C.I.M.A.).
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