Mary E. Barth

Who is Mary E. Barth?

Professor Mary Barth’s research focuses on financial accounting and reporting issues, particularly topics of interest to accounting standard setters. Such topics include using fair values in financial reporting, expensing stock-based compensation, recognition versus disclosure, intangible assets, asset revaluations, the information roles of accruals and cash flows, the relation between financial statement quality and cost of capital, and issues related to global financial reporting and harmonization.

Mary Barth is the Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB). She also is a member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Professor Barth's research is published in a variety of journals and has won several awards, including the Wildman Medal Award, the Competitive Manuscript Award, and, on two occasions, the Best Paper Award of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA). She has been an Associate Editor of The Accounting Review and is on the Editorial Boards of several other leading academic journals. Professor Barth is a recipient of the Stanford GSB's MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and PhD Faculty Distinguished Service Award. Professor Barth is active in the AAA, having served as Vice President and as chair of several committees. Prior to joining the IASB, Professor Barth’s accounting standard setting activities included serving as a member of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the American Institute of CPAs and the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford in 1995, she was an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and an audit partner in Arthur Andersen & Co. Professor Barth holds an AB from Cornell University, an MBA from Boston University, and a PhD from Stanford University.