Donal Byard

Position
Visiting Lecturer in Economics
Role
Chair, Stan Ross Department of Accounting, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College
Bio/Description

Donal Byard is a professor of accounting at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY). He holds a B.B.S. in accounting from the University of Limerick (Ireland), an M.B.S. in Finance from University College Dublin, and a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Maryland. He specializes in teaching financial accounting, and his research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Contemporary Accounting Research. He also serves on the editorial advisory board for several academic journals, including Accounting Horizons. His current research focuses on financial analysts' use of voluntary disclosures, and externalities (or spillover effects) arising from the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards in Europe. In 2008-2009, he served as a visiting academic fellow in the Chief Accountants Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Since 2017, he has taught ECO361: Financial Accounting at Princeton University.