Winning investors over : surprising truths about honesty, earnings guidance, and other ways to boost your stock price / Baruch Lev.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Machine generated contents note: Why Restoring Investors' Trust in Managers Is Now Critical -- 1.It's Not the End of the World -- What to Do -- and Not Do -- When Faced with Missing the Consensus Earnings Estimate -- 2.Do We Have a Story for You -- How Soft Information Can Change Stock Prices -- 3.To Manage or Not to Manage Earnings? -- Why You Shouldn't Even Think of Manipulating Financial Information -- 4.Kill All the Lawyers? -- How to Immunize Your Company from Class-Action Lawsuits -- 5.Nothing in Excess -- The Hazards of Under- and Overpriced Shares, Particularly the Latter -- 6.Guiding the Misguided -- Why It's Beneficial to Assist Investors with Forward-Looking Information -- 7.Life Beyond GAAP -- Why Managers Should Disclose More Information Than Legally Required -- 8.Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is -- Why Certain Financial Actions Affect Share Prices and Others Don't -- 9.Is Doing Good, Good for Business? -- Which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activities Are Worth Pursuing and Which Are Not -- 10.In the Long Run, We're All Dead -- Why the Much-Maligned Investor Short-Termism and Managerial Myopia Are Myths -- 11.Breathing Down Your Neck -- How to Handle Activist Investors and Hedge Funds Intruding on Your Turf -- 12.Looking Out for You, Dear Shareholder -- Why Corporate Governance Often Fails and How to Fix It -- 13.Excess or Excellence? -- How to Clean Up the Managerial Compensation Mess -- 14.What Then Must We Do? -- Meta-instructions.

A guide to dealing with Wall Street in order to boost a company's earnings and stock price features advice for executives on such topics as addressing investors' concerns and maintaining credibility on Wall Street.

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