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Julian Yeo

Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting / Deputy Chair, Department of Accounting at Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Adjunct Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School

Schools

  • Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  • Columbia Business School

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Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Biography

Julian Yeo is a Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Melbourne, his Master of Finance and his Bachelor of Commerce (with honors) from the University of Western Australia.

Professor Yeo's research focuses on accounting-based equity valuation. The valuation parameters that he examines include required rates of return by investors, growth rates, tax adjustments, and biases in analyst earnings per share forecasts. Professor Yeo teaches Core Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Modeling Financial Statements, Managerial Accounting, and Accounting-Based Valuation. .

Before joining Stern, Professor Yeo was a full-time faculty member at Columbia Business School and the University of Melbourne. He is a recipient of many teaching awards, including the Stern Distinguished Teaching Award, the Dean's Teaching Excellence in Core Courses at Columbia Business School, the Executive MBA Commitment to Excellence Award for Excellence in Teaching at Columbia Business School. Professor Yeo was also named one of the 12 Favorite Professors teaching in Executive MBA Programs by The Wall Street Journal.

Areas of Expertise

  • Accounting
    • Earnings Management
    • Financial Statement Analysis
    • Valuation

Courses Taught

  • Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Managerial Accounting

Education

  • PhD University of Melbourne (2001 — 2003)
  • MFin The University of Western Australia (1999 — 2000)

Companies

  • Deputy Chair, Clinical Associate Professor NYU Stern School of Business (2019)
  • Clinical Associate Professor NYU Stern School of Business (2018 — 2019)
  • Adjunct Associate Professor Columbia Business School (2015 — 2018)
  • Adjunct Associate Professor NYU Stern School of Business (2014 — 2018)
  • Co-Founder and Co-CEO WordsAnalytics (2011 — 2017)
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor Columbia Business School (2012 — 2015)
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor NYU Stern School of Business (2011 — 2014)
  • Assistant Professor Columbia Business School (2004 — 2011)
  • Senior Lecturer Unviersity of Melbourne (2003 — 2004)

Columbia Business School

Biography

Professor Yeo is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia Business School. Professor Yeo's research focuses on accounting-based equity valuation. His current work focuses on parameters that are pivotal to valuing securities. The valuation parameters that he examines include required rates of return by investors, growth rates, tax-adjustments and biases in analyst earnings per share forecasts. Prior to joining Columbia, Yeo was a faculty member at the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia. In 2007, he was awarded the Dean's Teaching Excellence in Core Courses at Columbia Business School and one of the finalists for the Presidential Teaching Awards at Columbia University. In 2008, Yeo received the EMBA Commitment to Excellence Award for Excellence in Teaching. And most recently, he was named one of the 12 Favorite Professors teaching in Executive MBA Programs in 2008 by Wall Street Journal. Yeo teaches an elective, Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation, at the Columbia Business School to Executive MBA.

Teaching

Fall 2017

Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (EMBA)

Fall 2014

Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (EMBA)

Summer 2014

Financial Planning & Analysis (MBA)

Fall 2013

Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (EMBA)

Spring 2013

Accounting I: Financial Accounting (MBA)
Financial Accounting (EMBA)

Fall 2012

Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (EMBA)

Research

Journal articles

The Use of Comparable Firm Approach in Valuing Australian IPOs In International Review of Financial Analysis (2007)
Coauthor(s): Janice How, Jennifer Lam, Julian Yeo

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The Impact of Forecast Disclosure and Its Accuracy on Equity Pricing: The IPO Perspective In Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (2001)
Coauthor(s): Janice C. Y. How, Julian Yeo

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The Pricing of Underwriting Services in the Australian Capital Market In Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (2000)
Coauthor(s): Janice C. Y. How, Julian Yeo

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Web-only articles

The usefulness of accounting fundamentals and other prospectus information in the valuation of IPO firms In Chazen Web Journal of International Business (2005)
Coauthor(s): Julian Yeo

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Working papers

Another Look at Equity Valuation Using Price Multiples (2010)
Coauthor(s): Ming Deng, Peter Easton, Julian Yeo

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Dividend Tax Credits and the Residual Income Valuation Model (2010)
Coauthor(s): Julian Yeo

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Expected Bias in Analyst Earnings Forecasts (2010)
Coauthor(s): Ming Deng, Julian Yeo

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Expected Rates of Returns for IPO Firms (2010)
Coauthor(s): Asher Curtis, Julian Yeo

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Properties of Analyst Contemporaneous Multi-Period Earnings Forecasts (2010)
Coauthor(s): Julian Yeo

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Understated Book Values and Analyst Earnings Forecast Errors (2010)
Coauthor(s): Ming Deng, Julian Yeo

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Case studies

What, when, how? A revenue mystery (2011)
Coauthor(s): Trevor Harris, Urooj Khan, Julian Yeo

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