BIOGRAPHY

Eli Bartov is a Research Professor of Accounting at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. He is the Director of the Accounting Doctoral Program. Professor Bartov received his Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, and his C.P.A. certification in 1979.

At the Stern School, Professor Bartov teaches courses in financial accounting and reporting, financial statement analysis, international accounting and financial statement analysis, and empirical research in financial accounting. He has also taught at the University of Rochester, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, and City University of Hong Kong.

Professor Bartov's research focuses on executive stock options, earnings management, earnings expectation management, executive compensation, and various aspects of equity valuation. Examples of his current work include: "Private Information, Earnings Manipulations, and Executive Stock Option Exercises," "Accrual Management, Investor Sophistication, and Equity Valuation: Evidence from Form 10-Q Filings," "Investor Sophistication and Patterns in Stock Returns after Earnings Announcements," and "The Rewards for Meeting-or-Beating Earnings Expectations." He has published extensively in leading accounting and finance academic journals on both theoretical and empirical subjects.

Professor Bartov has been invited to lecture on executive stock options, earnings management, equity valuation, and related topics before academic and professional audiences not only in the U.S., but also in Canada, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Australia. He has also testified on financial-reporting-related issues in securities fraud cases, contract disputes, and other litigation.

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