His teaching area is financial accounting, ranging from the basics of financial accounting to international accounting. His dissertation on the pharmaceutical industry was awarded Best Paper by a New Faculty by the American Accounting Association Northeast Region. He regularly publishes in scholarly and practitioner journals, and presents at regional and national conferences such as the Ethics Symposium of the American Accounting Association and the Northeast Business and Economics Association. Fischer is a Brooklyn native who has lived, traveled and worked around the world before coming to work at Brooklyn College.