Professor Demers currently teaches the core introductory Corporate Financial Accounting course to M.B.A. and Executive M.B.A. students. In each of 2003 and 2004, she was named to the Simon School’s Teaching Honor Roll. Demers’ current research interests broadly relate to economic issues concerning Internet and other New Economy firms. Her studies investigate Internet stock valuations, the marketing role of initial public offerings, IPO failure prediction, technology stock market bubbles, and strategy and performance measurement in New Economy companies. Other research interests include corporate equity valuations and risk management activities in the property-casualty insurance industry, for which she was one of six winners of the KPMG/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Competitive Manuscript Competition. Her work has been cited in Fortune, Forbes, The Industry Standard, eCompany, and Money magazine, and her research has been funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (C.I.M.A.). In 2004, Demers was inducted into Marquis’ Who’s Who in America. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Demers practiced as a Chartered Accountant specializing in business valuations and litigation accounting in Toronto.  Demers’ consulting activities include litigation support for the quantification of economic damages in accounting fraud and Internet industry cases, and the analysis of financial statements and accounting red flag reviews for hedge funds and other investment managers.

Demers is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Management Accountant and a Chartered Business Valuator.

B.A. (with Dean's honors), Accounting, University of Waterloo
M. Acc., Accounting, University of Waterloo
M.S., Statistics, Stanford University
Ph.D., Business Administration, Stanford University