Jeremy Bertomeu earned his undergraduate and MS degree in Finance at HEC School of Management Paris. After his graduation, he studied economics and statistics in the Delta program (now Paris Tech) and completed his PhD degree in Economics at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. His research primarily focuses on the areas on executive compensation and financial disclosures. Currently, he is involved in trying to better understand the design of relative performance evaluation in the presence of systematic market movements.
He also studies how characteristics of product or financial markets can give rise to different forms of disclosure, and how private information is incorporated into market prices. Professor Bertomeu teaches Managerial Accounting at the Kellogg School of Management.
Areas of Expertise
Corporate Capital Structure
Debt-Equity Choice
Financial Disclosure/Statements
Management Compensation
Managerial Accounting
Performance Evaluations
Education
PhD, 2008, Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
MS, 2005, Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
Lic, 2002, Mathematics, Besançon University, Honors
MS, 2002, Finance, HEC School of Management
Teaching Interests
Managerial accounting, financial accounting
Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Managerial Accounting (ACCT-431-0) This course counts toward the following major: Accounting
This course emphasizes the use of accounting data in internal management planning and control. It is concerned with accounting techniques that affect decisions about resource allocation and performance evaluation within a firm. The course covers the basic vocabulary and mechanics of cost accounting as well as the economic basis for managerial accounting techniques and the problems that should be anticipated in their use.