Bøger af Baruch Lev

An innovative new valuation framework with truly useful economic indicators The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers shows how the ubiquitous financial reports have become useless in capital market decisions and lays out an actionable alternative.

In The M&A Failure Trap: Why Most Mergers and Acquisitions Fail and How the Few Succeed, a distinguished team of finance and accounting researchers and practitioners delivers a practical and up-to-date exploration of the shortcomings of managerial mergers and acquisitions decisions. In the book, you'll discover: Why 80-90% of all corporate acquisitions fail How to substantially improve acquisition decisions How to predict a specific merger outcome All the lessons and advice provided in this book are fact-based--derived from a sample of 40,000 real-life merger cases around the world which are thoroughly analyzed and provide the foundations for our findings and recommendations. The authors offer keen insights into the most important predictors of mergers and acquisitions failure and success and show you how to identify the potential warning signs of a problematic transaction. The book also provides insights into the human element of M&As: what happens to executives and employees of failed acquisitions. You will also find in the book a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art research on M&As and numerous analyses of successful and unsuccessful real-life mergers. Perfect for executives and directors contemplating a major M&A decision or currently engaged in such a transaction, The M&A Failure Trap will also earn a place in the libraries of students of business and economics, as well as investors faced with decisions impacted by a merger or acquisition, and shareholders expected to vote on an upcoming transaction.

This book is the first comprehensive, scientifically based study of the nature and impact of intangibles. Weaving case studies and real-world examples with contemporary business theory, Baruch Lev establishes an economic framework to analyze managerial and investment issues concerning intangibles.

Pleasing Wall Street used to be easy for executives. Not anymore. The stock market is an uncertain place, and every day executives have to figure out what investors really want. There are right ways and wrong ways to do this. Get it wrong, and you risk alienating investors as well as employees, consumers, and supplierswhich can erode your earnings and stock price.In Winning Investors Over, Baruch Lev draws on his own and other finance scholars research to present authoritative, often surprising instructions for dealing intelligently with Wall Streetand boosting your companys earnings and stock price. Through rigorous data analysis and real-life cases, Lev shows how to: Understand and address investors concerns to secure ongoing funding and support from the capital markets Deliver disappointing news effectively to investors Build, rebuild, and maintain credibility on Wall Street Buy time for your companys recovery from activist shareholders and hedge fund raiders Structure your compensation to win shareholders supportWinning Investors Over demonstrates that despite the uncertainty that characterizes Wall Street today, you can still craft a mutually beneficial, long-term partnership with investors.