# Professor Baruch Lev's book, "The End of Accounting," is cited

1 Faculty News September 19, 2019 ![In the Black logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/In%20the%20Black%20logo%20192%20x%20144.png?itok=SwvUPBL_)>

Excerpt from [In the Black](https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2019/09/19/a-singular-career-in-auditing-and-assurance) -- "In his book The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers, [Lev](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev) suggests that financial reports have largely become an exercise in compliance, as opposed to an information-sharing activity that reflects strengths such as a great brand or unique business processes such as Amazon’s and Netflix’s customer recommendation algorithms."

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