Professor Beatty has held the Deloitte and Touche Chair of Accounting since 2006 when she was named the first female endowed chair in the history of the (Fisher) College of Business. She was appointed as the first female full professor in the history of the AMIS department when she joined the Ohio State faculty in 2004. She has also served as a faculty fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge School of Business since 2018.
Professor Beatty’s research focuses on the economic effects of accounting. She is especially interested in the importance of accounting in debt contracting and in bank regulation. Her publications in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review place her in the top ten of those publishing in these prestigious journals over the past two decades. In addition to numerous presentations at academic institutions and conferences, she has presented her research at the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Bank of International Settlement, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Bank of Spain.