Christopher S. Armstrong
Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Christopher S. Armstrong is a Professor of Accounting at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was previously the EY Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Economics and is an editor of The Accounting Review. He holds a BS from the University of Virginia, MPA from the University of Texas at Austin, and PhD from Stanford University. His research primarily focuses on corporate governance, executive compensation, contracting, and incentives. He has also studied issues related to how capital market participants use accounting information and other corporate disclosures, valuation, and cost of capital, and various financial reporting issues at early-stage companies.