# Professor Baruch Lev's views on the decreasing relevance of traditional financial reporting are featured, from his co-authored book, "The End of Accounting"

1 Faculty News September 9, 2018 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-traditional-way-of-measuring-value-stocks-may-be-history-1536545400) -- "'Every aspect of the financial report is adversely affected by this dated, industrial-age treatment of intangible capital,' Prof. Lev argued in his 2016 book, 'The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers,' co-written with Feng Gu, a professor of accounting and law at the University at Buffalo"

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