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

1 Faculty News October 14, 2016 ![Directors & Boards logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/directorsboards192x144.jpg?itok=Je2C12Tp)>

Excerpt from [Directors & Boards](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/The%20End%20of%20Accounting%20Excerpt%20-%20Directors%20%26%20Boards.pdf) -- "There is no shortage of criticism of the accounting model and the financial information derived from it, and a whole host of proposed remedies: disclosure of nonfinancial variables (key performance indicators, or KPIs); reporting on the impact of firms’ operations on people and the planet, in addition to profits (the 'triple bottom line, or the three Ps'); or reporting on the intellectual capital of companies (intellectual capital reports), to name a few."

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