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

1 Faculty News June 21, 2016 ![BizEd Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032480.jpg?itok=7YU4HCDV)>

Excerpt from [BizEd](http://www.bizedmagazine.com/archives/2016/4/research/bookshelf) -- "The fact that data reporting seems 'frozen in time' is a serious problem for the accounting field, according to [Baruch Lev](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev) of NYU and Feng Gu of SUNY Buffalo. They write, 'We grade the ubiquitous corporate financial report information as largely unfit for twenty-first century investment and lending decisions.' They propose a new type of report that includes information about 'patents, brands, technology, natural resources, operating licenses, customers, business platforms…and unique enterprise relationships.' This sharp, smart book takes a new look at an old discipline."

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