How important and accurate are corporate earnings?

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Baruch Lev (Author & Professor, NYU Stern School of Business)


Baruch Lev provides a definition of corporate earnings and explains the kind of information that one should be able to learn from these numbers. He then goes on to explain why they do not provide investors or others looking at a company for a merger or acquisition target with the right kind of data to predict value.

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Baruch Lev

Author & Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

Baruch Lev is the Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Lev has been with NYU for 17 years. His primary research areas of interest include corporate governance; earnings management; financial accounting; financial statement analysis; intangible assets/intellectual capital; capital markets; and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Lev is the author of six books, including the most recent: The End of Accounting, published in 2016. Professor Lev has received numerous awards and prizes, including two honorary doctorates.

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Tracey Fitzpatrick

Tracey Fitzpatrick

Sarder TV Anchor & Former Market News Video Anchor

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