Dr. Louis Le Guyader is a faculty member in the College of Business at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he teaches courses in Sustainability Reporting (U.S. and International with IFRS), Accounting Theory, Analysis and Valuation, and Intermediate Accounting III.
Prior to joining Southeastern, Dr. Le Guyader held faculty appointments at Columbia University (Columbia Business School MBA Program, the School of Continuing Professional Studies, and Columbia College Department of Economics) and Princeton University (Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs, where he was also a resident at the Bendheim Center for Finance). At Columbia, he was awarded the Chazen Prize for research on the accounting for risk in major banks and served as the Coopers & Lybrand Scholar.
He is the recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Accounting Educator Award from the Louisiana Society of CPAs. His professional contributions include significant work on U.S. GAAP through the FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification®, and authorship of the AICPA’s commissioned Financial Reporting Alert on Share-based Payments (FAS123R).
In practice, he completed a two-year rotation in the National Office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, specializing in financial instruments and serving as the point person for partner-level guidance on the SEC Market Risk Rule (FRR-48). He was also a founding member of PwC’s Financial Risk Management Group. His most recent principal client engagement was with IBM on the implementation of FAS No. 133 (Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging Activities), which the SEC Chief Accountant described publicly as “the best FAS133 implementation he had seen.”
Dr. Louis Le Guyader's area of expertise includes Financial Accounting and Sustainability Reporting.
