# Prof. Baruch Lev on the shift in information that companies are providing investors

1 Faculty News June 4, 2013 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/cfo/2013/06/04/apples-oranges-and-outliers/?KEYWORDS=%22stern+school%22) -- “'The relevance of accounting information in financial reports is decreasing at an alarming rate,' says [Baruch Lev](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev), an accounting and finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'What investors need is a comprehensive picture of the business model of a company and how it is executed.'”

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Additional coverage appeared on [The Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/cfo/2013/06/04/the-morning-ledger-nonprofit-groups-tackle-newfangled-metrics/?KEYWORDS=%22stern+school%22).