Doron Nissim
Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting and Finance
Professor Nissim earned his PhD in Accounting at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined Columbia Business School in 1997. From 2006 to 2009, he served as the Chair of the Accounting Division. Professor Nissim’s research is primarily in the areas of earnings quality, fundamental analysis, and equity valuation. His studies investigate various issues related to fundamental and relative (multiple) valuation, corporate and personal taxes, market efficiency, reliability and relevance of financial disclosures, corporate finance decisions, and financial institutions. Professor Nissim’s research has been published in such internationally acclaimed accounting and finance journals as the Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, the Review of Accounting Studies and the Journal of Finance, as well as in practitioner-oriented journals such as the Financial Analysts Journal. Professor Nissim is an active participant at academic and professional conferences and is an editor of the Review of Accounting Studies. Professor Nissim’s research is frequently cited in the popular press, including Time, the New York Times, Chief Executive Magazine, The Economist and the International Herald Tribune. Professor Nissim consults extensively, primarily on earnings quality, fundamentals-based analyses, valuation, and investment management. At Columbia Business School, he teaches MBA and PhD courses in financial accounting, earnings quality, and fundamental analysis, and regularly participates in executive education programs. Professor Nissim has received various honors and awards, including a prize from the Financial Executive Research Foundation for “the article from those published in the Accounting Review during 2004, which had the greatest import for users and prepares of financial reports,” two nominations for the Brattle Prize at the Journal of Finance (outstanding paper in corporate finance), and the Columbia Business School Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in a Core Course.