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Lloyd A. Levitin (born 1932) is an American businessman, former business executive and currently professor of clinical finance and business economics at the
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's
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. He teaches financial analysis and valuation courses in the full-time MBA and undergraduate programs. He has published articles on corporate diversification and accountants' scope of liability for defective financial reports. He was simultaneously executive vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer of
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(now
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), as well as executive vice president and chief financial officer of the
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Company (wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Enterprises). He has 31 years of experience in corporate management. Prior thereto, he was associate professor of business at
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. He also has a CPA certificate. On June 6, 1996, he testified before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the
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regarding the proposed Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1996, S. 1317. His analysis of the financial health of Southern Pacific Rail Corporation persuaded the
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to permit the merger of Southern Pacific with
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in 1996

Education: Juris Doctor, JD, University of San Francisco (1961). MBA, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (1956). Bachelor of Science, BS in Accounting, University of California (1954). He is married to Sonia Levitin, a novelist, and has two children, Daniel Levitin and Shari Levitin. He and his wife are among the founders of the Moraga Historical Society.


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Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1996 – Report of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, to accompany S. 1317. September 9, 1996
cites Lloyd Levitin as JurEcon's financial expert *[http://www.moragahistory.org/about/organization.html Moraga Historical Society – MHS Organization] 1932 births Living people University of Southern California faculty Jewish American academics San Francisco State University faculty University of San Francisco alumni Wharton School alumni University of California alumni American chief financial officers 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American Jews {{US-business-bio-1930s-stub