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Nicholas Guest

Nicholas Guest

  • Assistant Professor

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Faculty Area

Faculty Expertise

  • Accounting
  • Investments
  • Quantitative Modeling
  • Financial Media

Contact

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

607.255.4220

nguest@cornell.edu

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Biography

Professor Nicholas Guest is an assistant professor of accounting at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research focuses on the market for public firms' financial data, especially earnings and textual disclosure.

He has two main streams of research. One examines the characteristics of the earnings, other accounting data, and text provided in firms' disclosures. The other focuses on the users of those disclosures, especially active equity investors and financial journalists. This work has been published in various academic journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, and Financial Management, and has been covered by top media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and Yahoo Finance.

Selected Publications

Awards and Honors

  • MIT Sloan Thesis Prize, First Place (2018) MIT Sloan
  • BYU School of Accountancy Director's Award (2013) Brigham Young University
  • Beta Alpha Psi "Oustanding Officer" Scholarship (2012) Brigham Young University

Recent Courses

  • NBA 5090/LAW 5090 - Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
  • NMI 5000 - Directed Reading & Research
  • NBA 5060/LAW 6060 - Financial Statement Analysis

Academic Degrees

  • PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018
  • MS Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
  • MAcc Brigham Young University, 2013
  • BS Brigham Young University, 2013

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